MODULE ASSIGNMENT
 
ASSIGNMENT TITLE / Typography 2
 
DATE 20TH FEBUARY 2012 - 27TH FEBUARY 2012
 
DESCRIPTION
Different fonts convey diverse meanings and blend in with other elements of a piece, for example a marker scribed font overlaid with an image of royalty would convey an anti establishment or revolutionary visual description (see Jamie Reid).
 
Task one - Task one – what type are you
 
Pentagram, a notable design studio set up by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky in 1972 have taken the task of identifying everyone a type face that suites their personality, go to the site below and find out what type you are. Then find out about that font and as much visual information as possible.
 
Discuss with the group (& document) –
What type you are and do you agree?
Do the origins and definitions of the type sit with you as a person / photographer?
Are the ways in which the font is used with imagery match what you would used?
 
http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/
 
You are then asked to produce an image to along with this font, but the image must represent you as a photographer. Does this work?
 
Task 2 – Read, discuss and summarise the following articles
 
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-design/Types-of-design/Graphic-design/Typography/
 
http://67.228.11.169/blog/font-photography
 
http://fontsinuse.com/need-supply/
 
Task 3 –
 
You are asked to select images from each of the list below and find an appropriate font to go with it, with this you must summarise (in written form) why you have chosen the font and image including why the font is appropriate. (Own photography preferred)
 
Cinematography
Editorial photography
Documentary Photography
Fashion photography
 
Research-
Look into typography and the different forms it takes.
 
Development
Try different font document and reflect upon your choices
 
Final piece’s – each photograph should be displayed with a font (this can be on or off the image)
 
TECHNICHAL CONCERNS  
 
The end product must be fully annotated using relevant terminology.
 
• Investigate use of typography in photography, video, animation, drawing, interactivity, decency, controversy, colour, tutorials, and anything that you find. Also think about the different ways your work could be delivered, screen, print, Internet, mobile devices.
 
• Find out the meaning and use of basic typographical terminology.
 
• Research file must be in an A4 lever arch file, but content can be digitally printed.
 
 
• All experiments can be A5 or bigger
 
 
• End piece must be at least A3 in size
 
 
USEFUL TEXTS & LINKS
http://designandprint.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/typography-basics-the-difference-between-a-font-and-a-typeface/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/14/what-font-should-i-use-five-principles-for-choosing-and-using-typefaces/
http://freelanceswitch.com/designer/the-power-of-typography-in-design/

More National Forest Lake Photos...

The Art Of iPhotography

iPad2

My student loan has finally come through and I decided to be a good girl and spend some of the money on something that would bennifit my college work. After a few hours googling and asking around I decided the iPad2 was the best investment idea. I had read somewhere that is was an ideal piece of technology for a student photgrapher! When I was looking at what size iPad I needed to get I came across the fact I need 3G to use the iPad out of wifi zone. Therefor I was looking at spending about £100 more for an iPad with 3G built in. HOWEVER, in Currys, to my suprise, there was a Phones 4 U and the Lovely but pushy sales man suggested that if I upgraded my Blackberry to an iPhone I could 'steal' the 3G of it.

Ive had my iPad about 2 weeks now and I love it! Theres only one problem that puts me of using it over my laptop which is, when on blogger.com I cant Upload my images. Im not sure wheather this is possible and im just not doing it correctly but I am struggling and finiding that I tend to favour my PC over my iPad when blogging and including photos. I would love to take a photo on the go and upload it onto blogger and write about it straight away. I think I would be blogging all day everyday if it was the case. Think its time to ask google or a clever computer geek!!

In the 2 weeks of playing with my iPad and iPhone I have downloaded many camera apps.
I Also recently purchases an iPhotography book with is AMAZING! Its helped me understand how to use all the photography apps that are available to the iPhone so I can get FULL potenial of my gadgets!

The Gaze

The Gaze

Photography and the act of looking

5-week assignment – presentation

·         Subject becomes an object

·         The photograph allows us to study or stare at a person without either partly feeling uncomfortable. Society deems it as ‘bad manners to stare’.

·         Who is watching who?

·         Is the subject aware?

·         How do we know if the subject is aware of being photographed or not…

·         ‘photoface’ a difference face when a camera is around.

Aware but unguarded.

A good example of photoface is in an episode of ‘friends’ when one of the characters chandler can’t smile and he’s having his photo took with his wife as an engagement image to go in the paper however as soon as the camera is out he pulls a strange face and looks really awkward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2joUFlCdPE

Marilyn Monroe – May 6^th 1957

Richard Avedon.

"For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's—she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no."

You can gaze at her but no eye contact but it shows a side to her that many images hide.

Corinne Day

Corinne Day is another photographer that photographs her models in a gaze or stare of some sort.

When I saw this portrait I instantly fell in love. I find it remarkable how this image managers to conjure up feelings and emotions. A mixture of dreaminess and serenity, ‘interwoven with a strong, unshakeable sense of dread.’ I like how her strange, alien gaze creeps into the back of your mind when you stare into her eyes. Its like all your vision blurs and all you can see is her eyes and It really makes you wonder what she is thinking and why she looks so confused and dazed.

My Gaze....

Jade Birchnall

Jade Birchnall is a formal degree student of Burton college and she came in to speak to the Nd students and the degree students about her work.

she showed us a few of the projects she had been working on since she graduated.
Her first one was about her grandmother and what I found very intersting is that when she was showing us photos of her she explained how he had recently been diognosed with alzheimers which gave a whole new way of viewing the images. The photographs where all took on film camera and she was experimenting with light so some where better than others and some she loved and managed to produce them by acciedent. There were a few images of the elderly people that where sharing the same care home as her grandma and she told us little facts about the people.
a photo of an old women is so much more interstresting if you know abit about the women.

Another project she showed us contained images of various strippers in different poses in a strip club. she explained she felt really awkward and uncomfortable and she gained the attitude of 'you only live once' and shot away at the half naked women. she took some unflattering images of the girls because she knew they wouldnt see them and it humoured her in a way.
i remembered a quote 'they won't see them so what the hell, im going to make you look ugly.' I found it interesting because after looking at the images it was clear these girls loved themselves and thought they where very attractive and Jade captured a side of them to show that the girls are just like any other girl on the planet, just with a bit more make up and a little less clothing..

she managed to get permition to photograph priests and nuns. The images where quite slarteling. Its not every day you see an image of a nuns smiling.

Its like Jade photographed the impossible, she photographed photograped people and places we dont regualrly see as the viewing public.However not to say we dont want to view them.

It kinda reminds me of Merry Alerns series 'shopping' and 'dirty windows'.
an insite into people we dont regulary meet and places we dont regualry see.

The International postcard show 2012

I love pc world

Took a trip with my mum to pc world to help her choose an iPod and I ended up leaving the store with an iPhone an iPad 2 and an iCloud ooo and cases for the gadgets because I'm very clumsy and by looking at my old phone it's a good investment !!