The Soviet Theory of Montage
The clip beside talks about the development of cutting in film and photography. It began when the Moscow film school was interested in film and 'Intolerance' became the most influential film in Russia. Kuleshov, a significant person that was interested in experimenting and studying from Griffith's film. Nevertheless, the illustration of the first experiment became known as the 'Kuleshov Effect'. The growth of continuity editing began because of the Kuleshov Effect that indicated individual pictures re-arranged to tell different stories. "The meaning of film was not only in spatial composition, but in the arrangements of shots". D.W Griffith developed continuity editing through practise whereas Sergei Eisenstein developed Montage through theory. |
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"PHOTO BOOK BRISTOL 2014 - f u t u r e o f p h o t o b o o k s"
notes from the clip: x digital media changed the nature of publishing x this is because of the fact that digital media is distributed through different audiences in attempt to get a wide range of audiences x the reality of photo books creates an appreciation of what is conceived. x from 1987, there is constant change in photo book - they say that the change will always be continuous especially since trends, media and different conceptualisations will be made. x the reason for constant change in photo book is through the reproduction and representation of media or publishing. |
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Anouk Kruithof
'T h e B u n g a l o w' Photo book of "The Bungalow" By Anouk Kruithof drew my attention by the overwhelming front cover of hundreds of tabs of photographs. What was more mesmirising was the introduction, whereby the font was so large it overlapped into 3 pages of the book. While skimming through the photographs I realised that were was a hint of blue which abandoned any white bits. The book in terms of the physical texture was similar to 'Diary by Mikhailov'. a very thick book with a hard cover. The book reminded me of that photo book because it also included some collages or different layouts, perhaps screenshot by a digital screen. I particularly like the square guide lines as it makes the photo more aesthetic and unique. Some photographs were so large that they would overlap two pages which was one of the elements I liked about this photo book. Most of the images were in black and white except the first and last pages were yellow.
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Nick Wapplington
I really like Waplington's photo book 'the Indecisive Moment' having researched about the idea of the indecisive moment previously, it lead me to research about his book. I had a look at the physical book which I really liked the overlap of one photograph over two pages. His photo book is very intruiging as it includes a series of different photographs, skies, texts, doodles, portraits, buildings and many more. Despite the differences of colour and types of photographs, the photo book some how works out harmoniously with the sequencing and layout as I was turning over the pages,
As a result, this will definitely be supplementary to my process of deciding if I would like to overlap my photographs onto two pages and if I may or may not select shiny paper as the quality of my photographs printed. |
Photobook "15 things you thought about today..."
The idea was to note down fifteen things that came across your mind during the day and attempt to take photographs of the followings on your list. 1 people's eyes 2 shadows 3 different trees 4 poster in rooms/corridors 5 lengths of people's hair 6 nail colours 7 texture of people's hair 8 the sun 9 how pretty the sky looks 10 collarbones 11 people's ears/earrings 12 clothes people wear 13 smiles 14 shoes people wear 15 portraits of people |
Toshikawa Hiromi
As my initial idea didn't go to plan, I decided to focus on the idea of Japanese/Asian photography as during the research of PROVOKE, I became really philosophically immersed with the idea of expressing oriental cultures through photography. After researching about the PROVOKE, I became really fascinated with Japanese photography. Therefore, I researched about Toshikawa Hiromi, a well known Japanese photographer for her personal style of photography. She began her photography journey by firstly entering a competiton called the '11th New Cosmos of Photography' in 1995, the year of her high school graduation. She entered the contest, with an outcome of 35 paged book called the 'Seventeen Girl Days' which was an emphasis of a 17 year old teenage girl and her life experiences/style. During her youth in 1995, she embarked a photography career as she dedicated her diaries to magazines and further photographed famous musicians which became successful. I chose to develop my knowledge of Japanese photography for my personal investigation because I admired the PROVOKE and my creativity for the photo book has been triggered by the research I have done of Japanese photography |
After successfully creating two dummy photo books, I used the website 'Blurb' to create and organise my photographs for the photo book. Below shows the layout of the website and how I organised my photographs. I firstly included all my potential photographs that I intended to use in the bar below the digital copy of the photo book. To place my photographs I dragged them where I wanted them to be and organised the fitting of the photographs.
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