Question:
Can anyone help with ideas for photography for my art GCSE?
x becky x
2007-03-23 06:54:21 UTC
ive been given my art gcse paper and i want to do about viewpoints as i would like to include photography. ive tried searchin different viewpoints and things that may help develop my ideas but i cant seem to be finding anything. can i anyone give me some help or advice please?
Three answers:
R Mutt
2007-03-23 14:27:42 UTC
my main advice is... youre tutors/teachers get paid a lot of money to answer questions of exactly this sort - go ask them. its what theyre there for



my other advice though to anyone in a creative rut is just do something, anything. no matter how stupid or bad - doodle, collage magazines, scribble, take photos of anything that takes your fancy, get them back and play around with them. whatever. it is often paralysis brought on by not having anything at all, once you have something, no matter how dumb, it can help release the ideas.

Great art comes from letting yourself go and just going with something. Try to relax about it, you dont have to know what your going to do at the end, just make a start on something, art is often about the journey.
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2016-04-21 10:55:40 UTC
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anonymous
2007-03-23 10:52:02 UTC
Firstly you need to be developing your workbook or sketchbook.

Leave the first double pages free as a title page to return to later on when you have finalised your project.

1. Produce a bubble chart like you do in design technology with 'viewpoints' in the centre.

2. Brainstorm, viewpoints and bring what you find into your bubble chart.

For example:

viewpoint-perspective.(needs research)

See book,'Perspective' published by Dorking and Kinsley.



points of view, (seeing different points of view, might need another bubble chart just for itself.)



viewpoint, could be interpreted as landscape photography.



viewpoint, field of view could be interpreted as different types of lens being employed, wide angle, portrait etc. Could also be considered as depth of field, using the f -stop [aperture] to create different depth of field.



viewpoint, exploring things from a different viewpoint, for example photo of a tap taken from underneath the tap. photographing through a pile of pipes,etc. Could also be a different view point, dog's eye level, or fish eye lens which sees in a different way. Bill Brandt spend considerable time exploring what images he could obtain from his models by using a variety of wide angled lens which distorted their poses making there legs look long , etc.



Viewpoint, distortion, using different reflective surfaces to explore images, curved surfaces distort etc.Borrow mirrors from science labs [concave and convex]



sociological viewpoints, people sleeping rough, living in highrise buildings. Different points of viewfor example, photo essay on the differences of different communities, cultures etc A student of mine swapped places with a friend for four days in a holiday, one lived on a farm the other in a town. (if you where willing to interview people you could do a video essay)



Look up as many definitions of viewpoint as you can, you should be able to find sufficient to fill a page.



3. We have only thought around ideas in a bubble chart so far. Now we need to start researching (finding out). Choose maybe five ideas from the bubble chart and start investigating them. Remember that the internet is not the only way!!!!! Books, exhibitions etc.

Examiners want to see proof of the following:

Can this student:

a. Research and comment.

If you get pages off the internet and stick them in your workbook, nil points. If you plagiarize (copy) other peoples words, nil points.They want your words.

b. Critically analyize work.

c. Experiment

d. Develop ideas, not just jump from one to another.

4. When you have exhausted one of your chosen ideas move on to the next, until you find one that you are really getting into and develop that one all the way through to your final piece or pieces of work.

5 Finally examiners will want to see references to the work of other artists. Very few artists can work in a vacumn and gain inspiration from the work of others.

6 Keep/Make a bibliography to put into your project. Possibly use quotations and refer them to the bibliography. (Ask an english teacher they will explain.)



If photography is your bag, then get in a library and look at the work of other photographers. If found David Hockneys photo joiners[ photo mosaic] quite inspirational, but you need to read what and why he did them, different viewpoint. See , David Hockey, Cameraworks, published by Thames and Hudson. Try the work of Bill Brandt who was both social photographer and interested in distortions as I have said.

If you want to explore the nude and its aspects then the work of helmut Newton and David Swanell.

Last bit of advice: Put as much into your sketchbook/workbook(s) as you can, since you only have four weeks prep time you need to get cracking NOW!!! Fill more than one sketch/work book, but fill them with quality, not quantity. Good luck and enjoy, hope i've helped!

Dont follow R Mutt's advice about just letting it happen. This is for an examination only one chance so you better knuckle on down and graft for it! Sorry thats the way it is!


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