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The Themes
THEME 1 - Kings and Queens
THEME 2 - Garden
THEME 3 - Celebrity
THEME 4 - Space
THEME 5 - Shopping
Kings and Queens
Cards, Royalty, Monarchy, Fashion Choices, Male and Female
Artists include: Elmo Hood, Martin Schoeller, Ink and Drop Work, King and Queen Logos
Garden
Plants, Biology, Hobbies, Looking Up, Macro, Meditation
Artists include: Thomas Heaton, Nigel Danson, Slinkachu
Celebrity
High-Profile People, Social Insider, Friends, Limelight, Flash, Power portrait
Artists include: Plato, David Bailey, Andy Warhol
Space
Astrology, Star Signs, Looking Up, Earth, Black Hole, Mental Space, Headspace, Space between you and I.
Artists include: Mark Pelleymounter, Thomas Heaton
Shopping
Food, Clothes, Objects, Money, Smoking/Vaping Epidemic, Funding, Children, Decisive Moment
Artists include: Vivian Maier, Henri Cartier Bresson, Annie Leibovitz
Pinterest Boards
It is a good Idea to go and create a Pinterest Board, Going through all of the ideas that are currently floating around your head and the internet.
Where to START?!
MIND MAP
Mind Map your starting point:
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Get a dictionary definition
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Go to the online thesaurus to find alternative words
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Develop your own ideas and understanding of your chosen starting point
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You can hand draw/use Canva/Use Photoshop/Use the Templates
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Create an inspiration page of images that show how you could develop your ideas about your starting point
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Think carefully about your starting point and make it creative and fully explore all of your ideas.
Find some Mind Map templates in the Photography folder
Research Stage
RESEARCH
RESEARCH: Find and research your first 4 artists.
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Minimum of 4-8 beautifully presented pages in your sketchbooks with detailed description and analysis of their work.
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Why have they produced their work and what is the narrative/message?
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What is your opinion about the work and how could you do something similar to this?
This is a really helpful sheet that will remind you HOW to analyse a photographers' work!
RESPONSE
Responding Stage
RESPOND: Execute your first photoshoot in response to your chosen artists
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Each photo shoot should be 30 - 60 images (not 1 or 2 or 3!)
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Present all photos from your shoots then 4-6 of your best images larger.
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Now start to EXPERIMENT (edit your images) using your artists techniques
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Present your work in your sketchbooks as you do it. This will help you to assess your work as you go and give you more direction moving forward with your ideas
If you are stuck.....try out some of these Pinterest Boards
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