Abi Walsh and Rosa Willis
In Murray’s reading, she discusses in depth
the decentralization of photography and identifies the “shift in the engagement
with the everyday image”. Murray states that photography “has become less about
the special or rarified moments of domestic living and more about an immediate,
rather fleeting display and collection of one’s discovery and framing of all
the small and mundane.” This idea is one we wanted to explore further in our
photo essay. As our stimulus for our project, we used Murray’s ideas of the
everyday aesthetic and amateur photography. The theme for our project was ‘Windows’
and our supporting sub theme was ‘The Home’. The intention of our project was
to create a collaboration of images which personified the traditionally mundane
object. Through effective use of editing, angles, colour, lighting and sound,
we were able to manipulate the images into becoming more then just the everyday
aesthetic, rather as fleeting, malleable and lively (Murray 2008). In order to create an effective and engaging
project we set the following guidelines:
- - The windows of choice must be
taken from the outside of homes (our subtheme).
- - The windows must reflect a sort
of personality, eg natural decay, style etc.
- - When editing, we decided that
we would accentuate this idea of personality within the windows through
cropping, zooming and contrast in order to highlight the reflection of the
window.
We named our project ‘Hidden World’ to enhance and support the
story our images tell. In order to create a sense of cohesiveness within our
project, our initial and ending slides are images of windows on the front door
of a home. The music incorporated in our photo essay is ‘We felt the fall –
Lemolo’ (a cover by coMa and Sorrow). In iMovie, we edited our sound to have a
cathedral effect in order to support our eerie and ghostly style. The process
of our photo essay closely reflects Murray’s key arguments, in particular her
idea of the progressive relationship with the everyday image in helping alter
the way we “construct narratives ourselves and the world around us.”
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