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I created a website for my Final Major Project that includes images inspired by the short stories in the book Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann. My final major project has been a challenging personal journey which has led to me learning many new things about myself and my capabilities as well as learning new skills that I can take with me into my future career. It has allowed me to highlight and improve on my strengths and decipher my weaknesses which I have tried to improve throughout the project and will continue to do so after the project finishes. After completing the proposal for my project in December I had doubts over whether it was the right project for me to undertake and whether I would be able to achieve the outcome to the standard I desired. Originally my project was going to be based on classic fairytale characters and aimed at children, but I struggled to find a way to make this subject matter original and different to what had been done previously by other creati...
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300 Word Project Introduction

My Final Major Project is based on the 19 th century book of short stories called Struwwelpeter by German author Heinrich Hoffmann. The stories are mainly based on different children and animals who misbehave and as a result get punished for their actions. Many of the stories are designed to scare children so that instead of misbehaving they do what their parents tell them to. The children in the stories have characteristics common to many children such as sucking their thumbs, not wanting to wash, stealing and bullying other children. I have created images inspired by these stories but with adults portraying the characters in the stories to show that people often take characteristics from childhood into adulthood and that people’s actions and their actions of others from the past affect how people are in the future. There are many stories in the book and I decided to focus on six of them for my project that I thought would create interesting visuals. I have created a website to ...
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Sebastian tutorial 29th March

Sebastian liked some of my ideas in my test shoots but mentioned that some of the positions are too much like beauty or fashion poses and don’t tell the story as well as the other images where the poses represent the characters in the stories better.  Sebastian was unsure about one of my looks for the Inky Boys which included liquid dripping from the model’s eye because he felt like it had been done before. I have decided however to keep this in my work because I think that it represents the story well and the dripping ink is a key part of the story. He told me to look at a couple of different photographers that he thought could influence my work. Sebastian suggested finding alternative ways of representing blindness, loss of speak and loss of hearing such as showing the blind person with white sticks. He mentioned someone called John Hull who is blind and says that when he is carrying something he feels doubly blind as he also is not able to use his sticks or hands to try and fe...
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26th April Tutorial with Sebastiane

During my tutorial with Sebastiane I showed him what I have created of my website so far to see what he thought of the layout and also of my final images. I don’t think the current layout tells the stories in the best visual way and am slightly concerned that some of the final images need to reflect the stories more than they currently do however I don’t have time to do more shoots. He suggested that a slide show with captions to help tell the different stories might work better than the current layout and I also agreed that this would look a lot better because at the moment the website looks more like a portfolio website which is not the aesthetic I want to achieve. I feel like it needs to have more elements of an online exhibition mixed with storytelling elements. When I raised my concerns about some of the images not fully fitting the story Sebastiane suggested using art to fix this, by printing the images, adding to them with different materials and then scanning them back in...
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Sharon’s Tutorial 26th April

This was the first time Sharon has seen all of my images and so I was a bit nervous of what her reaction would be as I now have very little time to reshoot if there are any huge problems. However Sharon was very pleased to see me and was excited to see my work which made me feel more positive about showing her. Sharon suggested cutting down the number of images I use from each photoshoot and take a more quality over quantity approach so that only the very best images are shown. I think this is the right thing to do because at the moment the weaker images detract from the stronger ones and also there are a lot of images with similar model poses. I think I just threw loads of images onto the site thinking more content would make it look better when actually this is not the case and more careful image selection would improve the quality of the site. Sharon said that if I am concern about not having enough diversity in my images I could use more editing techniques to make the differe...
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Cruel Frederick

The Story of Cruel Frederick When I was planning for the look that requires my model to have no top on I made sure that my model was comfortable with this in advance of the shoot. When we were doing the shoot I made sure that the studio was set up as a closed studio so that nobody could see into the studio. I also put a sign outside and gave my model material to hold in front of herself so that her chest was covered throughout the whole shoot. I have done photoshoots before where the model has been topless and so I know how important it is to make them feel comfortable and I think I am good and making sure of this. There have been times in the past where I have been on photoshoots or been involved in theatre shows where people have needed help with changes that require them to be topless and they have asked me to help them rather than other people. I think this is because they see me as someone who acts professionally but also someone who is caring and so someone they can trust....
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John 18th April

I spoke to John about my plans for my website and that I was choosing to use Wix to help me create it. John was surprised that I was not going to use Muse to create my website completely from scratch as he said I have been to a lot of his lessons on Muse. This is true however I find using computer Programmes such as Muse very challenging as over my three years at university the IT elements of projects have always been the most challenging for me as I struggle to remember how to do things even after taking notes during the lessons. I started creating my website on Muse but the layout of the programme does not suit my learning style it is very technical and what tools should be used for different elements is not clear to me. This also makes me worry that I am going to make a lot of mistakes which will take a long time to fix. Where as Wix is a lot clearer for me to understand. The layout is more visual and what tools such be used is labelled clearly with helpful instructions on how t...
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