Assignment 3 - U C What I C

This is assignment 3:

§U C what I C: Visual story

§Visual narrative – Telling a story with just 10 pictures.

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§Procedure:

§Buy, Beg, borrow, steal (don’t quote me on this one) a camera. Even 8$ disposable camera would do.

§Load it with a colour negative roll/Memory Flashcard.

§Write/Select a short story

§Try to communicate the story using no more than 10 visuals (no text).

§Create a storyboard of your idea/s in your sketchbook

§Translate you storyboard into pictures using your camera

§Get it processed and printed (size 6x4 inches). Mount them neatly on A5 size paper.

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Important: Story should

–Have a plot

–A beginning (hooking the audience)

–Middle (drama, building tempo)

–An ending with a twist

This assignment requires the use of a camera to take pictures, from which we use to describe a story. The story, as written above, should have a plot, a beginning, a middle portion, as well as an ending with a twist.

In the lecture by Mr Reddy, he explained about the importance of a picture frame and the rule of thirds, expressing the need for it to present a clearer picture to the viewers. This is also required to ensure that a clearer message is conveyed to the reader. I tried to include the rule of thirds into my pictures, as well as to focus on selective focus

These are my pictures:













The story goes like this.

1. This picture shows the setting, somewhere which involves palm trees and wind and darkened day.

2. A girl is evidently lonely and sad

3. She is pondering over love and thinking of someone she loves.

4. The girl looks out into the vast ocean, reminiscent memories invading her. She makes a prayer.

5. A collage of photographs are spread over a table, showing a glimpse of the person whom she misses. All the picture-perfect moments with him.

6. The girl mourns over the loss of her loved one. She grips tightly a shirt that used to belong to him.

7. The girl mascara-filled face shows that she has been crying.

8. The girl sits alone at her void deck.

9. The twist: The silhouette of the person walking into the distance. He is not dead, as some of the photographs might have suggested.

10. Life is still and empty.

I chose to represent some photographs in black and white and some in colour to symbolize the depression of the girl. Many a times when a person is under depression, life appears to become slower while they start reminiscing, and quickens when they return to reality. Hence, the colour contrast between colour and black and white is supposed to represent this shift from dreamworld to reality. Also, I tried to implement the rule of thirds into the photography.

Lastly, I also used Adobe Photoshop to edit the pictures so as to present the photographs as part of the rule of thirds.