*EDITED
( Remove the ’scary’ part and it seems more pleasing. )
This is a piece, which ive felt and conceptualised in my mind, with no ill intention or irk factor intended. =) Sorry guys. Pls dont feel uneasy k. What i felt then, was an emptiness&lost, beyond sadness and helplessness personal state, thus it infuses into the art piece i did. Haha enough of personal ‘insight’, back to this.
Initially, ive took beach, parks, wet market, and people pics. Many concepts were circling my mind…but when i saw this train structure in henderson park, it sparks a new concept..i want to focus on toy vs real train, and thus, the idea slowly developed.
Preceding, i would like to portray a boy and a girl, losing touch with one another. one will be on the side of the real train, the other on the side of the toy train. –generally a sense of lost & helplessness, in tie to the theme—The day after. Gradually, ive changed and created this piece–Where are you.
The background is the train and the station itself, whereby one can see that it seems to be approaching, or leaving…into the ‘whiteness’ with a backdrop of several buildings. This is the setting. A long long train which seems to be vanishing into the picture..with some buildings at far-sight.
Well, the train can be intepreted as leaving or approaching. but it is actually leaving, with no driver in front. So yup, maybe friends, have not seen it up close, and my train is not going to ‘kill’ the girl. =)
The people in black and white, represent that they are from the day before, while only the father and the boy are colored, and they are from the day after. I chose this way, so as to create a contrast in time, and to draw more attention to the boy, which has multiple images, as he is ’searching’
However, the idea was that the boy has lost his sister,[ far right] and they will never meet as she is ‘dead’ and the day after shows that the boy still didnot know where she is..and he is searching for her.
Thats all. I love the whole experience, had a day out with my best friend while shooting..lalala =P
Peers Review
Oh my. i couldnt stop myself ‘blushing awkardly’. The class gave ‘argh’, ‘ah’, ‘ee’. One word to sum: Gross. Seriously, maybe i myself prefer horror and thrill stuff, and this is pretty mild for me. “Blushed”, as i really did not expect that they will be affected. Im sorry guys, im not smiling then k, just ‘dont-know-how-else-to-describe’ and not gross u guys out..so i ’smiled’. =)
Well, one suggested that i put the mother with the girl in the track. Possible to do, but i think it might stir more undesirable uneasiness. Thanks for the comment. I shall review it. Well, meimei commented that it did good, as it create an unanimous ‘argh’, and was impactful. Thanks for the comment too. But i guess it may have been a little too much for most to take and nope dear, i wont send to SMRT, ahha least there will be more complaints, like for those pics on cigarette packages..haha. Well, Ivy has also pointed out a good point on gaze, mine i think is intra-diegetic gaze providing semi-reciprocal attention [ boy to girl] Thanks for comment too. I will look into it. =)
Overall, more feedbacks.Looking forward to find time to re-edit it!! Stay tune!
Review for peers work
OH. I love Jialin’s. Its awesome. The perspective and ingenious play with color, much much better than mine. This is one interesting composition and im falling in love with it. Thumbs up. 98/100. Moreover, i also enjoy and like Ivy’s interpretation of her work. Well, lots of effort put in too!! Its a dreamy yet realistic piece. I also like the flow and colors in her work. Great! 95/100. I also like Zhenqin’s concept a lot. It really makes one ponder if one can enter the world of the other and whether people these days are even bothered to collide with one another. hmm maybe im reading too much into his. But it draws one attention with the focus on road lines, rather than buildings, making the buildings look inferior..good!90/100.
Self Assessment
Well, I think this is a ’surrealistic’ piece im trying to create, from mind to eye. In relation to Zhengqin’s portrayal of surrealistic collision, i would grade myself 51 for effort and 32 for creativity.Yes it was imagination, but i guess i wasnt clear if that wasnt advised. It is pretty far-stretched, so much so that i try to portray two dimension of time. But i think i could improve, by first removing the story, and add more dynamic perspective to it. I may like to try to do 2 trains coming in from different directions. Also, I do agree with the class that the picture maybe disturbing to families who may have lost their members at the mrt track. Im sorry for this insensitivity, i will omit the girl in re-editing k. =) Overall, i think my train turns out nice, and there is a sense of deadness and live within, which i try to achieve..both the day before and after effect.
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October 8, 2007 at 10:27 am
Assignment 4 - The Day After « NM3223 - Digital Photography and Imaging
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October 13, 2007 at 3:40 pm
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heyZ, when i wrote “morbidity” on me blog, i wasn’t referring to your photo. it’s just that the class went on to talk about other issues in photography that day and i felt it might be too extreme for me to put someone right at the cross junction for my joiner.
i kind of thought we had the same theme going on actually, people in the way of traffic, though i left mine as a question mark but yours depict the girl as having passed on already.
i think we can both celebrate the fact our shots really explored the idea of using different photos to make up our desired scene, the way we want to craft it =)