Ketai Phenomena

I was thinking how to make this assignment unique. Took me quite a long while until the spark came.

Initially the only idea I had was quite similar to the example that Jing showed us in lecture. Phone portraying a different 'you'. Also, how phone has become so pervasive in our daily lives that you practically see people with phones everywhere.

Why not portray the functions of phones. SO the idea came and I had a trial with my friend who agreed to help by being my model.


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comic effect added


I was thinking since this concept is fun itself, might as well make the photos turn out postcard-quirky. So I decided to use comic effects on the photos, and also got my models to wear vibrant colors.

I wanted to show 4 phenomena - GPS at random place, entertainment(game) in mrt, entertainment(music) at bus stop, convenience at phone booth.

But turned out I only managed to capture 2 out of the 4. The photobooth and mrt photos didn't turn out nice so I discarded that series. While I was taking the photos another idea came to me, which is the close up perspective of the same phenomena. Since it won't hurt to take extras at the same scene, I took them as well.







Final drafts:

#1

#2

#3 - with spark on phone

#4 cut out effect


2nd perspective:





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Final drafts:

#1

#2

#3



2nd perspective:







process:

nice background, but the number of people increased and did not lessen, so we had to move.

failure on my model's part to take good shots. Then 2 people came and sat there, waiting for a car to come when all the buses that stop by that busstop had passed. So again, we had to move.


Phone booth:


The background for both were just too messy.


The mrt shots were too near, so I discarded this as well.

Due to the lack of time (my 2 models needed to study for exams too), I did take one more on the concept of weather forecast with jael on one saturday afternoon at west coast park. But I thought it would not fit as a series of 4 photos because it would be wierd if I used 2 models in the first 3 photos, and a different one in the last. So my final series include 2 macro view and 2 micro view. I liked the idea of it as well, at least it would not be that expectable as a seires of work. There is still an overarching theme that ties in the 4 photos but at least the aethestics presented have an element of surprise in it.