The final project: The final book

The final book

The book Prototype: Final Project

The in class prototype we made to get us ready for the final book

Final Project, Page layout progression

The many different page layout ideas that I went through before finding just the right ones!

David Levinthal: the photographer

Errol Morris on Photography

In the video, "Errol Morris on Photography"Errol Morris explains the difference between photo collages and video. He explained that he could make a more realistic interpretation of something than a video camera could. The test subject was one of his friends walking down stairs and bring him a coffee. First Morris uses a video camera to tape his friend in motion, and then after that his friend repeated the same scene and he took multiple pictures of the action. His plan did not work how he wanted it to, because some of his film was damaged, but he was still able to complete the project. I feel like this video related the most to our project because he was actually making photo collages. He used pictures in the same way we are supposed, to show time and movement. Watching how he did it, gave me a better idea of how to do my project, and probably was the only reason I reached my final idea.

Ways of seeing Review

The video "Ways of Seeing", is a 30 minute video narrated by John Berger. The video talks about how it is so much easier to see things now than it used to be. He explains that when it came to paintings, originally you could only see them if you went to the museum where it resided. Now with the internet, film, and other forms of sharing you can see any image at any time. Not only can everyone see these images, but they can see them at the same time. The video questions if everyone being able to see any icon makes the images less relevant. I thought it was an interesting video. I never lived in a time where you could not see any image that you wanted to, so I never thought about this. I guess being able to see anything when you want, could lower the value of the image. However, I think being able to see the original of something does have a special meaning. For example when I went to Paris, I was so excited to see the Mona Lisa, because of how people had built up. However, when I got there I was beyond disappointed. It was a small painting, that did not look so spectacular, and on the wall behind the painting there was a Mural that took up the entire wall, but no one found that interesting because it does not have the reputation that the Mona Lisa has.

Review of Visit to the Spencer Museum

For class one day we took a field trip to the Spencer Art Museum. The point of the trip was to go to the print room, and look at photos that also showed photo collage like images. When we got to the print room there was a woman who took us through to look at all of the photos. There were photos all around the room, and they all looked very different. There were a few that looked like they were the same types of collages as what we were supposed to use. the woman than had as talk about the photos, which we liked and which we did not. I thought all of the photos were interesting, but there was really only one I found that resembled how I was going to do my project. However, I know it helped a lot of other people, so I would say it was a good trip to go on.