Over the course of several months, the student worked on recreating vintage photographs by researching photographic styles, creating mood boards and presentations on influential photographers, selecting images to recreate, and taking and editing photographs to match the originals. Weekly progress updates documented the ongoing research, planning, shooting, and editing process. The final project included several recreated images with descriptions and presentations showing the editing process for each.

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IG4 Final Major Project
Production Diary
Emily Davis PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK(Including Possible
Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)
Mon W/B 07/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
For next week I am going to look for photography styles
and themes and see if I can find any ideas that will help
me produce my final major project. I’m hoping it will
give me lots of ideas and I have different choices of
what I could do.
Mon W/B 14/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week on Monday I made a production schedule for my whole
final major project. I have set everything out all my research, pre-
production, production and post- production so that I concentrate
on a certain task each week. This week I set myself to look at
photography styles and themes. I have been looking at some but
still haven’t found any like I like and think will be good for my
project. I am going to keep looking over the weekend for some
ideas that I like and then if I can’t find any I will have to extend my
first bit of research to next week. Also this week I started making a
mind map of the themes and styles I actually have found and are
considering.
Next week I am going to research some photographers I
like, that use the same styles I want to use and put into
my final major project. I am going to put them into a
PowerPoint and write about them the styles and themes
they use and how they could influence my work.
Mon W/B 21/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I started an ideas generation mind map. I chose three
projects I could possible do and wrote about each one in detail.
When I finished this I posted it on my blog and then read through
and looked at the ideas I decided to do my project on
photography. I have decided what style of photographs I want to
take so now I am researching photographers that use the same
kind of style I like. I am going to put my research into a
PowerPoint.
Next week I am going to start my proposal for my idea. I
will also carry on writing about the photographers that
influence me. I will also keep looking at my production
schedule to see if I need to update it if I need any more
time on a certain task.
Mon W/B 28/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I found a photographer that I like I started to write
about her and research more of her work. She influenced me and
gave me some ideas. I started my proposal for my project with the
idea that I had. As I started writing more and researching I came up
with a good idea for my project that I want to carry on researching
and then finally produce.
Next week I will finish my PowerPoint that I am doing on
photographers that influence my work. So I will need to
research photography and write about their work. I can
then put this onto my blog.

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IG4 Final Major Project
Production Diary
Mon W/B 04/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I found another photography that influenced me. She
was closer to the style of photography I want to do for my project.
I finished my influences PowerPoint of with the photographers I
found and put it on the blog. I also updated my production
schedule and put this on the blog again with the title it was
updated. I changed on it when I started my production log so that
it showed me updating it through the whole project. When I put
my updated schedule on the blog I wrote about how I am doing
and what had changed.
Next week I need to concentrate on looking at the styles
of the photographers I’ve found useful and make a
mood board of some pictures I like and some of the
pictures they take and compare them.
Mon W/B 11/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I put my production schedule on the blog again but I
didn’t update anything because I am on track with my work. So I
just wrote a sentence underneath explaining I am up to date with
my progress. I also looked online at my photographers I have
chosen for my influences and collected together some of their’
images and put them onto a mood board. I did this to show the
style of photos I like of theirs’ and which ones influence my work
and idea.
Next week I want to start and finish a mind map. I will
choose out of the photographers I have been
researching and write about the things they do in their
work that I like and could use in my work. Also to start a
power point on looking at the effects some of my
photography influences have re-created in their new
images.
Mon W/B 18/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I updated my production schedule because I added
another column to my research. I started my mind map on the
photographer that most influenced my work. I wrote about all the
different styles she used in her work and then how I could use
them in mine. This week I also started a power point showing the
pictures I liked from my photography influences and the effects
they use to re-create some of the old pictures they have. I have
uploaded both of these to the blog.
Next week I want to continue looking for images in my
own time as well as keeping up to date my production
schedule in class. Start on my pre-production section on
my schedule.
Mon W/B 25/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I have found 1 image that I want to use in my project I
am looking at the costume props and location for this image for
when I recreate it. Also I have started my pre-production on my
schedule this week. I wrote my paragraph about what I wanted my
pictures to look like and how I was going to take them to give the
same look.
Next week I want to have found more photos for my
project and be looking at how they look what props,
costume and location is in them.
Mon W/B 04/03/13 This week I have updated my production schedule and I am up to Next week I want to research looking for some of the

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(Detailed Weekly Summary) date with everything so I didn’t changed anything. I found the
costume and some of the props I need for the image that I have
found that I am going to recreate.
props I don’t have. Then look at locations for my picture
I have to try and get a similar one.
Mon W/B 11/03/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I have updated my production schedule and added some
extra week of pre-production to it. I have done this because I
wanted to give myself time to actually find the images I wan to
recreate and be able to write about them. With the one Image I
have already found I have wrote about why I want to recreate it
and how I am going to. I have also been looking at locations for this
picture. I started a word document with the first image I chose and
wrote about it and how I am going to re take it.
Next week I want to find some more of my pictures I am
going to recreate and the costume, props and location
for them. I will carry on with my word document with all
my images in and write about how I am going to
recreate them.
Mon W/B 18/03/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I have updated my blog showing that I am on task and so
don’t need to change my production schedule. I have found
another image I want to recreate and wrote about how I’m going
to do that and why. I also took my first picture of me in my mums
wedding dress for my first recreation photo. I got lots of shots so
that I had a range to choose form.
In two weeks’ time I want to choose one of the pictures
I recreated in my mums wedding dress for the final one
to edit like the original. I also want to take the picture I
have write about this week and recreate that.
Mon W/B 08/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week after being of for two weeks I need to upload my original
image of my mum in her wedding dress and write about it. I have
also found another image I want to use that is black and white so I
will have to use more editing on that picture to get the right black
and white old colour.
Scan the new image I have found and write about how I
want it to look and how I’m going to do it.
Mon W/B 15/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I took the second recreation picture. I wrote about how I
wanted it to look, looked at the way the picture was taken and
recreated it with similar location, clothes and pose. Then I spent all
week editing my picture and making it as close to the original as I
could using Photoshop tools and effects.
I want to scan another picture I have found and then
upload that to my blog and write about it. I will then
shoot the recreation picture and begin to edit it next
week.
Mon W/B 22/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I uploaded my third original picture and took my
recreation picture to. I wrote about how I was going to recreate
and edit my new third picture and why I chose it. Then I edited my
recreation picture trying to make it look as similar to the original as
I could.
Next week I want to write about what I think went well
with the images I have recreated so far and then look
for my final images to recreate.

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IG4 Final Major Project
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Mon W/B 29/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I am going to start writing about what I think went well
with my images so far that I have edited. Then I will look for my
final image I want to recreate. The write about why I have chosen
that image and why it has inspired me to recreate it.
Next week I want to evaluate my first recreation picture
that I did and show what I think went well and why I
think it did. Throughout the process of editing my
pictures I have been doing PowerPoint presentations
showing how I edited each image. So I want to upload
all the presentations to my blog and link them to the
same thread that the recreations are in.
Mon W/B 06/05/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I want to write about my new recreation image I have
found and wrote why I chose it and what it means to me. I will also
then evaluate another one of my recreations and say what I think
went well and why. I want to do this so I can reflect on my work
and see what I could of done better if I were to do it again and
what I think was just how I saw it in my head.
Next week I want to take my recreation picture and get
lots of shots so I have a variety to choose from. I will
also do a PowerPoint presentation to show my editing
process with this last image of my recreation project.
Mon W/B 13/05/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I took my recreation picture this week and I got lots of shots to
choose from so that when it comes to picking the right one that’s
most similar for my recreation project. I also am creating a
PowerPoint to show my editing process.
Next week I want to carry on working on my final
recreation picture and showing my process.
Mon W/B 20/05/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I updated my production schedule and I am up to date
with everything so didn’t need to change it. I am also just
concentrating on my final edit referring back to the original every
time to make it look as close to it as possible.
I want to try and finish my last picture and my
PowerPoint showing my editing process.
Mon W/B 27/05/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
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Mon W/B 3/06/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I looked at my whole project and made sure they were
all right and looked the best they could. Then I uploaded
everything to my blog under the right labels so that everything was
easy to find.
Next week I want to write my final evaluation of my
final image just a small one to show what I thought I did
well.
Mon W/B 10/06/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
This week I don’t have anything to do on my project because I have
finished it. I have uploaded everything to my blog and feel I have
created a good FMP. I will then wait for feedback on whether I
need to add anything to improve my grade.
I will improve on feeback.

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IG4 Final Major Project
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