This document discusses three ideas for photography projects exploring the theme of discovery: 1. Using light drawing to show crowds of people connected to technology symbols like social media logos, representing how technology allows people to discover information. Large photos from high vantage points would show this. 2. Using double exposure to merge photos of people with transparent music note images, representing how discovering new music brings new emotions and makes people want to listen repeatedly. Different colors would represent genres. 3. Using a Harris shutter effect to show a plain face with a single symbol, like a question mark, representing self-discovery as people figure out who they are. Multiple gender photos would show different stories.

1. Planning
Hannah Sewell

3. First Idea – Finding Life Through Technology
This is the kind of size that I’m hoping for when taking my image, I would like to be high up when taking an image
of crowds of people so that either be standing on a bridge or something which will help me to show crowds of
people. The aim of this is to show light drawing which can be social networking logo’s or phone/ipad shape
drawings so that it looks like these people are constantly attached to it. By having the shape of a megaphone
which pours out the shapes of technology etc. This to me is discovery because people are discovering news and
media all the time through technology, they are using it to find out and discover new information in our society. I
believe getting a large picture like this will help to prove my point.
These symbols are hopefully some of the signs that I will create, I’d like to make symbols like a Twitter and
Facebook logo, phones, Ipads and also Wifi signs. This will give out a message straight away that this is a society of
technology and that as a crowd of people we are discovering information by being surrounded by technology. I
think lighting photography is one of the most important types of techniques to use for this idea because you can
create your own sizes and art like pictures. I feel that this is an important message as people don’t talk about
technology as being suffocating, instead they think it’s important for communication, by not discovering other
people’s interest and personality it means it harder to know what they are like. By looking at phones and Ipads
you miss this relationship a lot. I’ve decided that I don’t want Hockney or Harris Shutter in this idea because the
technique would take you away from the message, whilst drawing things is much better and clearer to the
audience. I would only use the other techniques if they were telling a message.

4. When finding this image I
realised that you could use out
of focus blur which means you
could blur out a person and
drawing a technologic logo like
this which means the person is
wanting to discover the
information on that product.

5. Second Idea – New Music, New Emotion
These two images are the type that I will be taking, this is because of the fact that I’m going to use double
exposure on them so that they merge. This technique would be great to use because it shows how music can
change someone’s emotion and when you discover new music you feel that you have to listen to it over and
over again. This brings out an emotion that your not normally used to and it’s exciting when you start to like a
new song, it controls you and some people dance to it constantly as it makes them feel good. Hopefully when
experimenting with the two pictures it would help to show that emotion and why is within the theme of
discovery. The first image is what I’m hoping it will look like so that when I increase the saturation it will bring
out the colours of the people and bits of the music notes which will be transparent so you can just see the
notes which will give a big effect.
I think this image with the notes is a good image as it shows the variety of music symbols that you can use, by
doing this I would have to find a piece of music and take an image so that it can go on top of the other image
to give it it’s exposure effect. I would try to do multiple images of this so that there is a theme of colours and
how different types of music can change people’s emotion, for example for rock music I would take different
pictures of instruments and then use multiple exposure so that you can see the types of instruments over
people dancing in rock outfits. The example shown is a group of people that would stereotypically listen to
pop music which is bright colours and music notes. I would use different saturations for different exposures
because of the type of music, pop would be bright red, pinks and blues, rock would be red/blacks and indie
music would be dark greens etc. As long as the idea comes across will help the image to look interesting.

7. Third Idea – You as a person
When producing an image about the person that you are I thought it would be difficult as nobody knows who
they really are at my age. By making it simple and getting a message across I thought I’d change the idea a
bit, by having only one symbol on a person face instead of several will be much better when using a Harris
Shutter effect. This will give an effect of a person moving which shows there emotion but will also make the
main symbol stand out. This will be difficult to produce but hopefully it will tell the audience that this person
is controlled by there symbol and only they have it. The first image shown is the kind of thing I want, by
having a plain background and only that face will help to show the person face without and distraction. To
me this is discovery because it’s about a person finding there own self and by doing that they have to
discover it. I was thinking that I could use a question mark on each persons face because it looks like they are
trying to get out of that phase and to move into a better emotion.
I like this image shown because it’s plain and really shows that symbol really well, I feel that a black question
mark across someone’s face will really strand out compared to a coloured one which will be cover with the
Harris effect. This type of photography will be simple to make and also allows me to experiment with art and
showing emotion through the image which is important into showing discovery. I am hoping to do multiple
images of this so that I can have both genders, this will show there stories, a representation of two genders
and how they look overall.