My final evaluation- Exam Final Piece.

My final piece came out how i wanted it to come out. I tried a multiple of different experiments on what exactly i wanted to use in my crime board and it came out well!

At the beginning of the exam i didn't really know if i wanted to a crime board anymore but thought i had to get started and if i wanted to do any changes i had to think of what i wanted to do while i was developing my photos.
I started off with going into the darkroom and printing off most of my prints that i thought was useful to use in my final piece. I then done some experiments and played around with the pictures for a bit to see what sort of pictures i would like to mount as my final piece. The sort of experiments that i used were things like putting the timing up and down to see the different contrasts in my photo, doing a bit of sandwich photographs; which did not go to well with what i wanted to do, as my final piece was a crime board. I also tried to do a photograph with CCTV timing and date, on it.
After developing all my photos in the Darkroom i looked at each of them an decided which ones i thought was the best to use in my crime board. I then ticked off everything i had done and started focusing on the things that i needed to do which was things like, Police reports, Police letters, sticky tape, digital photos, a white board and the rest of the things i needed for my crime board.

I had a few digital photos and thought to myself if i add the digital photos with the crime board would it look more realistic? This was successful so what i done was i went onto photoshop and started to make the digital photos look more contrasty by increasing some of the hue/saturation and the lighting of the photos to make it have a more clear and bright look. This went well so i started to reorganise my photos and thought how will i set everything out.

I started sticking the photographs on the board and using a black marker to show the crime adds up into one for example, i put all the crime photos such as, the young girl breaking into the house at the bottom of the board and worked my way up into how and why the young girl is involved in this sort of crime by herself!
I then had a picture of her dad who was a security at college near by to her house and her mother who sadly died but we do not exactly know how she died. The friends from the college may have links to her so we thought we could interview the friends in order to get to the main suspect.
The suspects photographs were dark for a particular reason which was i wanted the young girls photos to look like a robbery which people normally do at night.

Overall, i thought that my final piece for my exam went well and had a reasonable amount of time to do all what i needed to do.

My ideas for my final project

For my final project i would be taking photos of many different activities such as, shadows and how people are seen in shadows for instance, in this photo there is a man walking, followed by his shadow. This photo is very interesting because it could be seen as someone watching his shadow as he walks. Shadows can be seen as obscured and/or covert in the way you look at them.

Another theme of my ideas would be graffiti and how many stereotypes there are on certain ethnic groups. Also because this can be obscured aswell as overt depending on which way you view the photo.

My ideas are all to do with crime and the different types of crimes so for my final piece i would make a crime board of how to get to the victim.