Photo Essay Reflection

After reading this essay I see that there are many things in photography that I should be paying attention to. Framing and close up shots seem to be the most important and the ones that we as a group kept in mined while taking the pictures for our project. There is also an element of cemetery in a few of our photos. The majority of the text was (to put it simply) taling about composition as it is a very important element when it comes to this media. The reading was very insightful and useful to our group while taking photos for this project and it will also be important and useful for us as designers in the future.

Final Reflection

In this project there were good times and not so good times. The good times consisted of coming up with an idea and creating it in 3-D. The not so good times consisted of having to work in teams. My favorite part about this project was making the picture book. I enjoyed learning to use InDesign to create it as well. I also liked having to come up with creative solutions that we encountered threw the phases of the overall project. This was not my favorite project but it comes in at a close second. If I had to do this project over again I would pray for a different word. To me the word "withdraw" isn't all that inspirational. Another ting I liked about this project was getting to go around and see the other installations made by the students in other classes. Its inspiring to see so many renditions and different ideas.

Team Dynamic

My team consisted of Josie, Gunter, and Aaron. Together our ideas clashed at times but in the end we all came to a census. We all had jobs that we set out to do and we accomplished them. I enjoyed my team even though there was some indifference. Once we had the main idea everything came together. The teamwork was great and for the most part everyone had their ideas heard. Over all we could have worked better together in the long run but everything that needed done got done with no arguing. The only thing that hurt our group was that indifference of opinion.

"How" I Take the Picture

How I could take the picture will greatly affect the meaning of the word. In the opinion of my group we could go about it in three ways. The first one was that we could put it by an ATM because people withdraw money. The second one was that the president could withdraw the troops. The third one was that the words could withdraw into space. We finally settled on the first one. We took the pictures of our word leaning up against the ATM. We also took pictures using the idea of withdrawing into space. We set one box's end farther back than the other and set one box farther back in space to show further the feeling of the boxes withdrawing.

How We Built the Word

We started with sheets of cardboard and used the projector to trace the letters onto the cardboard. We then cut the letters out and cut the boards for the box to size. After that we started glueing the fake money to the back of the cardboard negatives that we had cut out previously and to the backs of the full sheets of cardboard. Once that was done we started assembling the boxes. One with the word "WITH" and one with the word "DRAW." Once we had the boxes assembled we started painting the outsides of the boxes green and taping up any holes. The very last thing that we did was pin the negatives (that we cut out and put money on) to the backs of the boxes. Last but not least we put the installation in its proper place under the Wesco porch.

Where We Actually Put the Word

In the end my group ended up putting our word under the porch at Wesco, in front of the ATM. We chose this location because it was the most convenient. It was raining outside so the roof over the ATM was the perfect place to put our word before the walking tour. The location that we chose contributed to the meaning of our word because people withdraw money from the ATM every day. This is the reason why we covered our word in money and green paint. In the end we as a group did not get to place our word how we wanted it because the boxes kept on falling off one another.

Locations

These were the locations that were possibilities for us to use as a backdrop for our word.

We didn't end up using any of these locations.