Prompt 25

Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?


I'm interested in this subject because it is quite interesting to see how a person can change (or not change) over the course of their life. I want the viewers to respond by remembering memories of their childhood and their dreams. I'm inspired by this project because childhood is an important period of time for every person and can heavily influence the way they act, think, and grow. 

Final Project

For my final project, I want to incorporate photography with drawing/collage.

My idea is to take pictures of a selection of my friends, and ask them what they wanted to be as children. For example, I wanted to be a teacher, so I would take a picture of myself and edit it digitally by tablet drawing. I would redraw the background to look like a classroom and perhaps even edit my clothing.
My goal is to take the person's childhood dream and play it out visually.
The pictures wouldn't come off as realistic, but rather a more playful sort of image.

Constucted- Final images

I wanted the photograph to be heavier on the side that the subject is 100%opacity on and lighter on the side where his image is more see through.

The prompt was "subtle disruption", so I chose to change my subjects eyes with magazine cutouts. I wanted it to be something that you would find more "normal" when you first look at it, but double-take when you realize it isn't actually part of him.
I chose to leave the actual disruption to be something that really exists, rather then editing it with photoshop. As for the rest of the picture, I used photoshop to darken and copy certain parts. 
I wanted this piece to represent first impressions and how you need to see a person again to find out who they really are.

I chose to add multiple pictures together in opaque layers. This prompt for this project was "collage" and I wanted to create something that would work together. In order to make this image, I put multiple images on different layers and played with the opacity settings in order to create an image in which your eye can capture multiple scenes. 
This image represents the places you frequently go and your memories of them.

I chose to put three images together to create one because I wanted to create a storyboard effect. The prompt for this image was "Narrative". 
I did little editing on the images, but I placed them together with a black border. 
This image represents the timeline in which one daydreams. One starts out by drifting into thought, and their vision blurs, various scenes play through their mind and then they snap back to reality.

The composition within this photo relies on the dark hallway leading to a bright white. I only cropped and added contrast to the original photo in order to create a nightmare type of effect. This image was created after I had been sitting in a basement and my friend's cousin came out of nowhere with a bunny suit in his hands. I wanted this image to represent a childhood nightmare where something innocent can become something that scares you.