Evaluation

Evaluation of Education Assignment

The first part of the assignment process which I am going to evaluate is the blog. This blog was quite successful, being that I remembered to put my research and the whole process of the assignment on my blog this time, improving on last time where I kept forgetting to do so. With this blog, I ended up putting most of the things on my blog right at the end because I was so focused on actually getting the work done, but at least this time I actually remembered to put it on there at all.

The second part of the assignment process which I am going to evaluate is working as part of a group. In my group there were four photographers and no stylists, so it was more difficult for us to decide on clothing. However, I think we all worked together very well. We each were in charge of an outfit to style and a stereotype to shoot and edit, and we all got a say in everything, so we all got on with the work very well. Overall, we all had equal roles as photographers and stylists in this assignment.

I am now going to evaluate the photoshoots. The test shoot that we did could probably have gone a bit better, as we could not get the model in for that day, and so I had to model instead for that one shoot. However it gave us the chance to make sure that everything went smoothly on the actual shoot, which it actually did. The model was good with contributing to pose, wardrobe and hair ideas, and nothing went drastically wrong, other than during the Twitter photoshoot, we forgot to change the background colour from red to blue, but we worked it out in the end and got some good final shots from it. We each shot our own stereotype, and then there was one left once we’d finished and so we each shot some photographs for that one.

The next part of the assignment which I am going to evaluate is the editing process. Each member of our group got to decide which photographs got to go into the final editorials. We made minimal changes to the actual photographs, because we got the lighting and model looking good enough so we did not have to change too much.

Finally, I am going to evaluate the final images and the layout. The layout features notebook-style lines, to make it seem like a school notebook that someone has doodled in. This works well as it fits with the education theme. We also put doodles around the edges of the images and chose borders for the images which we felt fit in with whatever particular stereotype we were showing. Overall, I think the images are very successful as single images and as part of an editorial. I like how all the photographs are against a coloured background so they seem like the typical school photographs. We put quotes on the final layouts as well, just to reinforce the theme of education. 

Final Images!

These are the final photographs and layouts for our education fashion assignment. We decided on making the layout look like a school notebook type thing with lined paper, doodles on each page which relate to each stereotype and images which can be related to the stereotypes in question. 

I think this worked very well for the theme of people getting their education through Social Networking websites more than schooling. The quotes and the layouts and doodles reinforce the theme of education which we tried to achieve in each one. 

I actually think that the original idea for this project is quite clichéd and has been done before quite a few times, but the way in which we have presented our final images turned a clichéd idea into a very original one, as I think we related more to the stereotypes which we were photographing than some other photographers may have done. 

Quotes on Education

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” - Ernest Dimnet

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” - Albert Einstein

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” - Oscar Wilde

“Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues. - Author unknown

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and doing something remarkable.” - Wendy Wasserstein

“Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our mind to a new idea”. - Katherine Watson, Mona Lisa Smile.

“Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.” - Joseph Joubert

“The value of a social network is defined not only by who’s on it, but by who’s excluded.” - Paul Saffo

“Brian Johnson:Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But, we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But, what we found out is that each one of us is: a brain …Andrew Clark:And an athlete …Allison Reynolds:And a basket case …Claire Standish:A princess …John Bender:And a criminal.Brian Johnson:Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.” 

Layout

For our layout, we decided to have a double page introduction with photographs and quotes (which can be seen above), and then we will give each photograph one page to have photographs and doodles. We are planning on making the pages look like a school notebook / yearbook type thing, which is why we did the photographs on coloured backgrounds, to get that "school photograph" look to the photographs. Then on the final page, we are going to put the quote from The Breakfast Club, along with one photograph from each stereotype. 

Contact Sheets!

Facebook contact sheet

Myspace contact sheet

Tumblr contact sheets

Twitter contact sheets

Youtube contact sheets

These are the contact sheets from our final photo shoots. There were one or two complications with lighting leaving a massive black shadow over the whole background, and on one of the shoots we did half of the shots on a red background when it was supposed to be blue, but other than that, everything got sorted out fine and ended up really good.

Test shoot!!

These are some photographs from the test shoots that we did. They aren't brilliant because we couldnt get the model in for the day of the test shoots, so I had to do it instead. But this shows the type of things we were planning on getting during the final shoot with the real model. For the lighting, we just had one beauty dish, pointing down slightly at the model, because this seemed to get the best colour out of the background, whilst lighting the model as well. 

From looking at the test shoots, I could tell that the outfits were going to work really well during the actual shoot as well as during the test, so we did quite a good job at styling, considering we were four photography students with no past experience of styling in the past. The one which didnt work was the "Youtube", nerdy outfit, which originally consisted of a white shirt, black skirt and red cardigan. I'm glad we changed the idea for that outfit, as it just looks a bit strange and uncomfortable in the test shot. 

This test shoot helped us to see things which needed to be changed, such as the Youtube outfit, and developing and researching different poses to use in the final shoot.