Assignment 3: Photo story – U C what I C

Assignment: Visual narrative – Telling a story in 8 photos.

Criteria: Photos to be approximately 3R each.

There is storyboard for me this time. I spent a lot of time trying to figure how to present the story that I had in mind, and then I spent even more time trying to take decent photos to convey what I was trying to present.

Initially, my photos involved peo-ple enacting the story (you will have to wait till you see the photos before I tell you my storyline though.)

Here is model #1. However, a quick blog surf online showed that the majority of past year photo stories consisted of people play acting. Hence I decided to switch to using representations of human instead. Twitter photo story competitions usually have pretty interesting examples on such a theme.

               

That wicked finger belongs to me. And I was trying out the idea of using instead of a person to execute my story. But I felt that hands alone still seem rather inadequate, because they are not very expressive on their own.

Hence, the use of ice hearts. Here are the photos, arranged to fit into A3. If you can’t get the story, don’t worry, you get one more try later because I have yet to add in CG, which was allowed for this assignment.

Now the one I presented in class did not have the clocks in the corner of the photos, I added them in after collecting comments from the class and friends that it may be a little too abstract, though apparently if you go up close to look at the photos, the story becomes more apparently, and more quickly too.

The storyline: The seven-hour itch

The seven year itch may no longer be that applicable, in a generation raised on fast food and the information super highway.

The seven hour itch is a new take on the seven-year itch.

The woman, represented by the pink heart, found the love of her life, represented by the blue heart.

But alas, as she aged, as seen in an older hand (my mum’s hand had a cameo) along came a younger woman, represented by the grey heart. And the blue heart was stolen.

 

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Figurtively, all these happened in 7 hours but actually, it is all relative. I could have used 7 months, or 7 minutes or seconds, but it is harder to find visual representations for these units of time.

I used ice hearts, because I thought it would be more impactful to express heartbreak in this manner, as opposed to a broken hand, which probably may not make a lot visual sense as well.

All in all, this is a rather cycnical view of love, I know. But I still had fun and pain doing the shots. The hearts melted really quickly and I caught a cold from holding them in my hands for too long. Thank goodness for timer functions in cameras

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