Sunday, 25 May 2014

Final Statement.

During the project I had to alter certain parts of it due to problems that i faced, the first problem that i faced was being unable to explore the third gender and the third gender within the media, I did however briefly touch upon it however the research that I did, did no longer have any connection to my project therefore during the elimination/filtering stage of my research I removed it due to it no longer having a place.

 I also found that time management was important and if you were to fall behind early on, it would be difficult to catch up, therefore when i found myself getting to the point of being unable to complete a task i would make sacrifices in the section that i was at for example i would stop researching a certain point and move onto the next or i would no longer do a shoot that i had planned as time was short.

During the project i found that being able to get feedback and to communicated my ideas thoroughly to others was vital to how i progressed onto the next stage, i relied mostly on the feedback from my peers and tutors, however i did also take my ideas and images to a public forum and gained feedback from people that i had hoped to me my target audience, this information was ultimately more important as i gained an idea of what my images looked liked to people that weren’t necessarily directly involved with my final major project or taking part in one themselves.

Coming to the end of the project i found that my ideas and what i could actually present would change quite rapidly due to finding out the size of the space in which i was able to display in, and also getting feedback with what my final image should of become, however the change in the ideas were ones i felt were positive and needed to be taken into account and therefore had a positive result overall.


If i were to restart my final major project again, I would explore the third gender and extend my research at certain points to really solidify my ideas and have a better foundation for development and for my final idea. 

Bibliography


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Bell Elizabeth, Hass  Lynda  and  Sells Laura (1995). From Mouse To Mermaid. Indiana: Indiana University press.

Gross  Larry  (2002). Up From Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

Internet

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Harper, Poppy. (2014) Did Piers Morgan 'Sensationalize' Transgender Activist Janet Mock's Story?. [Online Video]. 05 February. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1NR8rHlvXA.
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 Lombrozo, Tania Ph.D. (2012). Explaining Gender Differences. [Online] Available at:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/explananda/201208/explaining-gender-differences.
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Films

Paris is burning. 1990 [DVD] Jennie Libingston, New York: Second Sight


Final Piece/Image - Evaluation

For my final image and getting feedback from my peers, I came to the conclusion that one solo image would be a lot more stronger and pose more questions than two comparing images, 

I chose for my female image for my final piece , as the overall 
Mise-en-scèn  in the image portrays the right message that i wanted to put across at the end of this project, as the subject is photographed in a lacy top and the hints put across in the body language hopefully poses questions of the gender of the subject.

Final Piece Image/s


Idea 5 - Evaluation

At the first stage of these shoots i wished to keep the idea of comparison in my mind therefore that is why i have a mixture of “male shoots” and “female shoots” overall what i took from the previous shoot was the neutral facial expression and body language however i highlighted small changes in the body language for example the way my subject was sitting i had him slouched over for the male and sitting upright for the female, throughout the shoot  I made sure to have similarities and had pairs of pictures and clothing with would stand ideally side by side together

Idea 5 - Final Shoot

To further my idea I carried on using the same model however what made this shoot different from the first I attempted to make my subject wear more provocative clothing something which if a female were to wear the clothing questions would arise.

I also wanted to keep the idea of comparison so I shot some images with my subject wearing "boy" clothes, and while i was trying to keep the idea of provocative clothing, i decided while boy clothing i still wanted the clothing to be revealing, yet again i went back into magazines and onto the internet to find poses that male models do; and however i felt that the poses were too over the top so i was able to get my subject to tone them down again.




Idea 4 - Evaluation

This shoot is my favourite and strongest out of all the ones that i have done so far and it is an idea that i wish to carry on; therefore for my next shoot i will need to work on making sure that the clothing i pick are more feminine to pose more questions to the viewer, to further more questions by having small body language hints within the poses that the subject can do (e.g a small pinky up) and to rework the overal photography aspect (e.g lighting, DOF etc..)