FINAL REVIEW - REFLECTION.

Today we had our final group review before our hand in. I had printed out some of my images so far and stuck them on the wall ready to present to everyone.My main questions to ask everyone were:

• Did people think my images were clear enough?
• What size should I print my finals?
• What did they think about adding text?
• Did they think my finals should be a book or prints? 

Everyone was really helpful in todays review and gave me some great feedback/thoughts. I was really happy that they all took the time to look at my work thoroughly and give me their honest thoughts. Some of the ideas that I received were:

• In regards to text I should try putting the text on an opposite page next to the related image. My images feel finished enough and text placed over or on the same page might make it too busy. 
• Look at various fonts or if I want it to be hand drawn maybe link the style with something from the opposing image e.g. The lipstick image could have text written out in lipstick etc. 
• Everyone thought that my images were clear enough but they thought I could strip them even further down. So will play around with PS to test that out. 
• As for final pieces everyone imagined my images being turned into a magazine and trying to print them out onto newsprint. This is something I had thought of but didn't think it would be a good idea! So pleased that it got mentioned. 

So those were my favourite feedback points from my sheet and there was loads of other little bits that got mentioned. I'm really happy with everything that got discussed and I feel a lot more positive with what I have produced. I think I just needed that moment to step back from my work and let others do the thinking for a while! 

REFLECTION.

I'm really pleased with how my images are looking at the moment and I feel like I've done well with linking my images together and putting my images across. We have a review on Friday which I'm looking forward to since I'd like to hear other people's views on my work! 

N.B. I wrote these next reflections up last week but forgot to publish them! So apologies if they don't match up with the dates I am talking about.

RICHARD HAMILTON.

Richard Hamilton - Just what is it that makes today's homes so different? 

I came across Richard Hamilton's work and wanted to put it up before I forget! I really like his work, especially his combination of different images! They feel a lot like my own in the sense that they are all clearly from different eras but he's managed to make them all work together. 

DEVELOPMENT IMAGES.

These are some photo montages I made yesterday. I really like these since I feel I have gotten the hang of combining different styles and eras of images together. I like the contrast of modern day photographs next to 1950s imagery since I want it to portray the idea that how a male views a woman's traits can be quite backward, hence the 50s pictures, but the modern contrast with the fashion photography keeps it up to date. 

BABIES AND CLEANING.

I looked at two other ideas/themes within my work and that was women as 'baby machines' and cleaning. I like the top image as the baby aspect but I want to try other versions since I think I can work on it more and make it better. I really like the cleaning image since it's quite quirky and funny too. I've been experimenting with how I choose to cut my images out instead of going round the whole image and slapping it on. Instead I've been cutting up to certain points, e.g. I've stopped at the woman's waist and for the man I've cut round his collar and hand but left his body out. 

COOKING.

More of my cooking ideas development! I'm really pleased with these since I think the images all work well together and nothing is overpowering. I personally really love the top two, I think thats due to the placement of the images on the page and how I've cut them out. I'm not 100% sure on the last one, I can't quite decided why. Maybe its the spaghetti film still that doesn't quite work overall but I'd like to go back to it and work some more on it. 

DEVELOPMENT IMAGES.

These are just ones I was messing around with the idea of cooking/making food. I really like these due to the images working well together and working on an image as a background. I also liked playing around with the perspective, in this case the size of the legs. And I didn't want to default to placing my images bang in the middle so experimented with placing them more to one side.