still life. ILA. Synopsis of study

Level 5 photography
Still Life- ILA
Independent Learning Agreement 

During this module my course class asked to write and submit an Independent Learrning Agreement (ILA), which is a chosen are on still life whether it be vanitas/Nature Motre, Documentary, food, digital montage or product. By doing a ILA for the final weeks of this project it all allowed us to decide on topic to do with still life that will help figure out a chose on wanting to do fine art or commercial in third year of this course of BA HONS Photography. The ILA format is a way of expressing my skill and writing up a professional brief then email it to a the module tutor, Jill, before we met for a tutorial to discuss improvements on english on my brief and layout is correct and further my ides, if Jill is happy from my corrections and no further ideas needed it will then be signed off so that I can go ahead and begin with the proposed project. I have to print three finals that is best suited within my ILA

Synopsis of study

My intension for this project is to develop my understanding of still life documentary by using objects meaning something or tell a story. I have in mind using objects that will illustrate a single mother who is an Alcoholic and always out partying or having social gatherings in her house, instead of looking after her child. Idea of doing this is to photograph children toys such as a teddy bear, Barbie doll or miniature animals. To do the alcoholic side of the story I will have shot glasses tipped over and some filled, or empty alcohol bottles lying on floor then scatter some cards, chess pieces and party clothing she wore that night, then I will photograph in natural light. Artists I have found that does something similar to this are Sarah Cwynar, and Rose Secure on Pinterest where they photograph kids bedrooms which gave me ideas on ways to layout the items I have in mind. However my work is going to be staged just like Andre Kertesz where he limits the amount of objects in his image as I feel many items in the frame will distract from the story and confuse the viewer. Mari Mahr I will look into if wanting to play around on layering printed photographs and zoom in on objects the way she does so that objects will be clearer what it is with no gaps. Andre also focuses on shadows and think deeply about which objects to use to create a personality and how to organize the objects at a location that has the best natural lighting whether it be just using a lamp or in front of a window.  ­­­­If I want to develop this project without using natural light by wanting to experiment with gels on lights and using backdrops so that I can go along the commercial pathway in fashion and learning more about editing in capture one and Photoshop. I am planning to demonstrate how certain single mother’s neglects their children by doing a series of photoshoots of a sophisticated mother, children messy and low income mother and finally a teen mother. It should be interesting to document a story about single mother’s life styles.