I have continued taking pictures and writing through this whole week, and overall it has been very enjoyable. I have put up a reminder on my phone because the first two days I forgot to take a picture until fairly late in the evening. I don't really need the reminder anymore, but I am still going to keep it up for the rest of the week just to make sure I don't forget again.
This past week, one of the most interesting things I have gotten to do was experiment with aspect and ratio. Usually when I take photos with my phone they are just of something I see and want to capture it quickly, but now I have been paying more attention to what I capture. I have tried out doing horizontal and vertical, which seems to be one of the main flags that a picture was taken with a phone and not a camera. When a picture is vertical it seems to look more unprofessional, because it seems phone-like. Another thing I have been testing out has been close ups and long shots. Taking a picture at a different distance seems to change how you look at and think about the objects in the picture. When a picture is from far away it feels more like you are capturing an event, because of all the things you can fit in the frame. On the other hand, when a picture is a close up it feels like you are capturing a single object. This difference had also been influencing what I wrote about each picture. You can see that, for the most part, the long shots are a story and the close ups are a description or part of something. This was not intentional, but the photos influenced my way of thinking.
The one thing that I am a bit behind on is typing up what I have been writing. I often feel more creative when I write in a notebook, so I have been writing all of my quotes, poems, and stories in my creative writing notebook. I will probably copy them all over onto my blog in the next few days, but I've had a lot of other homework that has prevented me from doing that. Although it is just adding another step by writing it down in my notebook first, I truly believe that doing this has made me able to thing more creatively while doing this project. I have been writing a lot of stuff that is different from what I normally do, and am enjoying trying out different styles.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Picture #1 2/22/17
Picture: Okay I kind of cheated on my first picture because this one is from Monday but it is cool. I took this while doing to an event in Hollywood on the corner of Hollywood and Highland. I love that I can see all the Oscar posters up in the pic.
Blog Post #1 2/22/17
For my creative writing blog I am going to be taking a picture every day and writing a super short story or quote about it. I chose this goal because of how it will help me to get better at two things that I have been working on for a long time. Photography and Writing. Both of these are important to directing, the career that I wish to have someday. As a director you have to be able to write a story and know how to translate that story into a visual form. In this project I am reversing that so that I take the visual form and turn it into writing.
I am using this project to get better at photography because by forcing myself to take a picture every day I will have to learn what looks good and what doesn’t. After taking so many pictures I will also learn to be creative with what I am taking pictures of and the ratios of the pictures I take. I also hope to experiment a bit with lighting and taking pictures at different times of day and with natural, staged, and ambient lighting. Although I will be taking pictures with just my phone, I will figure out the forms of photography that I like the most and least. Hopefully by just taking lots of pictures, I will be able to take the skills that I learn through this project and translate them over to taking video and making movies, because so many of the frame and lighting aspects are the same.
The second part of this project, the writing, I am excited to write less than I normally do. This may sound weird, but what I mean by it is that often when I have an idea about something to write I want to only write about it and make that one idea into a full movie/script/novel. Very rarely is that possible, and so I end up just leaving many of my ideas as an outline or beginning of a story. By forcing myself to write something every day, I am cutting off the possibility of trying to write a ton about it. This way I will be able to focus on just writing a well crafted paragraph or two. Because I will be taking pictures of things that I see every day, I will also be forced to write about different things than I usually do. I am a huge fan of fantasy and sci-fi, so that is what I normally like to write about, but that is not what I see in my everyday life (if it is I would recommend seeing a doctor.)
Overall, I am looking forward to doing a project that forces me to write about and take pictures of things that I normally wouldn’t, while also getting better at two skills that I am constantly trying to improve upon.
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