Editorial
What is editorial? : 1. An article in a publication expressing the opinion of its editors or publishers.
2. A commentary on television or radio expressing the opinion of the station or network.
What is advertorial? : An advertisement promoting the interests or opinions of a corporate sponsor, often presented in such a way as to resemble an editorial.
All definitions I put on my blog I have found on: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Mini editorial weekly projects.
Phobias
Phobia - 1. A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous.
2. A strong fear, dislike, or aversion.
10 most common types of phobia:
1. Arachnophobia:
- The fear of spiders.
- This phobia tends to affect women more than men.
- The fear of snakes.
- Often attributed to evolutionary causes, personal experiences, or cultural influences.
- The fear of heights.
- This fear can lead to anxiety attacks and avoidance of high places.
- The fear of situations in which escape is difficult.
- This may include crowded areas, open spaces, or situations that are likely to trigger a panic attack. People will begin avoiding these trigger events, sometimes to the point that they cease leaving their home.
- Approximately one third of people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia.
- The fear of dogs.
- This phobia is often associated with specific personal experiences, such as being bitten by a dog during childhood.
- The fear of thunder and lightening.
- Also known as Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia, or Ceraunophobia.
- The fear of injections.
- Like many phobias, this fear often goes untreated because people avoid the triggering object and situation.
- The fear of social situations.
- In many cases, these phobias can become so severe that people avoid events, places, and people that are likely to trigger an anxiety attack.
- The fear of flying.
- Often treated using exposure therapy, in which the client is gradually and progressively introduced to flying.
- The fear of germs or dirt.
- May be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Brief
Produce 4 or more images of your chosen phobia.
My Phobia
* Since I was a child I have been extremely afraid of medical buildings/employees and/or situations, including doctors and dentists. I can recognize the fear as irrational but the moment I am put into this situation I have extreme panic attacks. I am not afraid of the pain and I do not actually know why I am afraid of this.
For this brief I went about finding medical looking objects to improvise with and create my images. I was aiming for a 1930's/40's style black and white horror movie type set of stills, So black and white very dark and grungy style images.
my images
A collection of medical style objects using a shallow depth of field to clearly show what the phobia is. Black and white tones used to fit the early horror movie style that I have chosen, as this is the feeling I get when I am in a medical environment.
Gloves stretching to give the image sensation of sound and texture that come with latex gloves.
Eerie shadows made to look like claws, I have sprayed water out of the syringe as it had no needle and the water has made the shape of a needle itself.
Signs of the times - Martin Parr
My class was given a list of quotations from a photography collection called "signs of the times" with which we were to choose one and create a photographic representation of that quote.
"Signs of the Times" is a photographic project about personal taste in the British home. In 1990, an advert was placed in the local press up and down Britain seeking volunteers for a survey of all aspects of their personal taste. From the 2000 respondents, 50 households were chosen featuring a range of age, gender, racial background, social class, region and type of personality.
The resulting documentary survey reveals the dreams of ordinary British people: of country houses and Tuscan villas, Scandanavian cabins and high-tec Chicago offices filtered through the discount furniture warehouses and off-the-peg designer shops.
This project is a serious exploration of British taste. With poignant, comic and controversial results, it uniquely reveals the 'good taste' of the British heartland.
"They're ornaments not toys. I don't play with them"
The quotation from the series that I chose was "They're ornaments not toys I don't play with them"
My Images
An image of my own collectables.
An image of my partners collectables.
An image of a neighbours collectables.
An image of a strangers collectables.
I do like how these images turned out, during post production I have tried to mimic the style of Martin Par's own images.
Post production
For this mini brief we were asked to choose an image and mimic it's post production style as best we can.
The image I have chosen to mimic is.
Gregory Crewdson
Production Still (Clover Street)
2005
Gregory Crewdson's images are inspired by film stills, I love the high saturation and deep colors, the post production gives the image a eerie sci-fi feel.
My own image.
original
This is my original image taken in Blackpool.
Here I have boosted the saturation in the sky and given the rest of the scene a deep blue hue to it.
A lot of Crewdons work relies on his very detailed lighting techniques but I have tried to mimic the deep blue colors and high saturation of his image.Tear sheets
What is a tear sheet?
A tear sheet is a page from a magazine or newspaper torn out or it can also be the mock layout for the to be presented to a magazine editor.
Some tear sheets I have looked at for inspiration.
What is a mood board?
A mood board is a type of collage that may consist of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition of the choice of the mood board creator. Designers and others use mood boards to develop their design concepts and to communicate to other members of the design team.
http://www.instituteartist.com/tearsheet-David-Chancellor-photographs-David-Attenborough-for-the
My first mock layout and images for the shoots.
My initial Idea was to make a double page tear sheet based on conservation photography, an article stating the different morals people have between hunting humans and hunting animals, I shot a person dressed as an animal to show that they are no different and then arranged it into a mock layout based on WWF magazines that I have read.
Images.
Mock Layout
The positioning of the text works well on this layout with the images, I experimented with several different programs before settling on photoshop to do my layout as I found it easier to understand.
Although I liked the layout for this idea, I couldn't think of a strong enough story to fit in with it. So After personal reflection and evaluation I decided to chose a subject from earlier in this project (Phobias) and write an article on that fitted into another layout.
Final layout
Here are my final layouts.
page 1
Page 2
Photography Ethics
Ethics in editorial
photography.
There is a general ethical
code followed by photojournalists around the world, you should always keep
accurate records of date, time and place that your images were taken so as not
to be giving the media false information. Following on from that you should
always research the story you have been assigned in detail from reliable
sources.
Cliché photographs of close
up sad and emotional people during disasters are often seen as ethically wrong
as the photographer could be seen as cashing in on their suffering and being
insensitive to the actual events taking place. That raises the subject of the
media in 3rd world countries like Africa. Is it right to so publicly
show the poorer villages with starving families so willingly in the media or
are we exploiting them? But then again that raises the question of do they
actually like it? If you have actually been to Africa you would notice that the
locals especially children love cameras and adore posing for the camera. But is
this because they don’t know what the images are for or that we gain money from
their image?
Photography and ethical rules
should apply differently depending on the geographical location you are in
certain images in the UK may not offend us but would offend people of different
races/genders or religions.
Cropping images is also a
hugely talked about issue in editorial photography, should we crop or
manipulate images? In photojournalism cropping images is usually said to be a
no go, as when you crop the image you could remove an important part of the
story and then you are selecting what the audience sees rather than documenting
truthfully with the camera. In fashion editorial however image manipulation is
widely used from slimming models down to removing birth marks, zits, wrinkles
and changing skin/hair tone or even adding makeup.
Again there are many moral
disputes about this subject as changing these models into the “perfect” woman
can be seen as A offensive to the model and B a bad influence on teenage girls
and the overall youth. Often blamed for teenage eating disorders, lack of self-confidence
and many other problems due to causing doubts on self-image.
Then we have creative ethics,
when does the photograph become so manipulated that it is no longer photography?
Some photographers don’t believe any image manipulation is right at all and
that all images should be as they were from the camera.
It is also apparent that
there is a degree of sexism in the editorial industry, men are highered for
editorial magazines a lot more than women are, and on research I have found
that young female photographers assisting men have been made to feel
insignificant, on the contrary men feel as though being a woman is an advantage
over them as they can often get better photo ops by talking their way into it.
There are many more ethical
issues in Editiorial and photography as a whole that I couldn’t fit into just
this 500 words, but these are the main issues faced by photographers of old and
new generation.
Editorial evaluation.
During this project I have
learn’t a lot about using photoshop to make editorial layouts, I have learn’t
about the working media industry, its requirements and what the difference
between editorial and advertorial actually mean.
I really enjoyed doing my
editorial fashion shoots during this project because I had never really worked
with fashion that much before.
After this project I have
realised that I really enjoy working to a story or idea, for example the
phobias mini brief was my favourite as I had to show something that was in my
head through photography.
I think my layouts work well
as an editorial sheet however I am disappointed with the print quality as it
has darkened the red on my layout and made it very hard to read.
If I were to do this again I
would try more layouts and perhaps make a mood board with print tests to see
how the colors will come out at printing stage.
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