Mid-Project Evaluation

Mid-project evaluation  (MPE) 24/11/2017 ………

At the half way-point within the project you should review your progression, identifying the shoots from the series that worked well.  This is a time point where you can show any decisions that you wish to make that will focus your future research on your personal project in a particular area.  For example if you have worked on a combination of studio and location photography and decide that you location photographs are the strongest, you may decide to continue the subsequent shots with more emphasis on location based photography, alternatively you might decide to develop your studio techniques to a higher level in order to show progression. The length of this section should be 4 paragraphs maximum.   

·       Discuss what you intended to do as part of the project, has the idea changed?

·       What shoots were most successful?

·       What aspect of the work requires improvement (e.g. a shoot, a technique, etc.).

·       Where do you see the work progressing (identify future shoots that you would like to 

I have done 5 shoots so far, and of the 5 I think that my first shoot and my third shoot are the best, I think that they have worked best, of the two, one of them was taken on location and one of them was taken in the studio. The first shoot was of two of my friends in London during the summer. The third shoot was in the studio with a few friends from college, I took a photograph of them in a deadpan state, and another where they are smiling to show the contrast between the two. However I didn't do the correct lighting in the first six photographs, I didn't position the lights very well and the lights hit the subjects face which created a lot of shadows when there shouldn't be any, as I didn't look at my past shoot to compare before I took the shoot, I will need to recreate some of the photographs.

Personally, I think that the one in the studio worked best. My proposal at the beginning of the year was to do an investigation on the portrayal of age in the medium of photography. However, I would like to focus more on investigating the portrayal of youth and looking at stereotypes, the reason for this is that I don't think that my shoots of older people worked that well, in addition, it is difficult to get photographs of old people as I don't know many old people, I would likely end up with the same few people in every shoot looking at older people. I think it would be better to get more variety in my shoots by focusing on youth as I will have more models and more opportunities to take photographs.

At first I wanted to do a majority of my shoots on location, I still want to do this as I think it makes the photograph much more interesting, if I do all of my shoots in the studio, the background will be the same each time, although I will get more choice in techniques in the studio, I may do a few more shoots in the studio, but overall, the majority of my shoots will be on location, mostly in London, although a few may be in my hometown, Waltham Abbey. Focusing on youth will give me the opportunity to take photographs of other people my age whilst I'm out. 

I really like the deadpan style of photography that I did for my third shoot, so I may do that again for another one of my shoots, however next time I will do it on location, possibly on Brick Lane in London. I intend to go there in the next few weeks with a few friends so I will take photographs while I'm there.