1 day Breif

Knife try

Out of the cold blackness a hooded guy, kid maybe, waved a switchblade. “Gimme yer money, boy.”

“Got no money.” I dropped the newspaper bag and by dumb luck grappled the knife away. He got cut pretty good and ran off, howling. I kept the knife and never saw him again.

Today we got set a 1 day brief we all picked short stories from a hat at random, above is the short story that I pulled out. We then were set the task of taking a series of 4 images that were relevant to the story. As my story was based at night and the brief was set during the day I decided to take my images in the studio. After reading over my story a few times, I decided to take key aspects from it and capture them photographically. 

My first images shows the "hooded guy", I didn't want to have to much going on in the images I wanted them to be very dark and almost creepy, so they give of an uncomfortable manic feel, which relate to the emotions you would feel when in this situation. Then for my second image I decided to photograph loose change, as a way of showing he had no money to give. I took a literal approach when photographing the image but I carefully places the coins and positioned the hand to fit the frame nicely. I also added contrast and offset to create a duller image to once again portray night time.

My third image is of the "newspaper bag" I decided to have the bag in the background of the bokeh lights, I feel using this effect gives a feel of night time,cars and street lights.  

Within my second image I have used a longer shutter speed to capture "Grabbling of the knife", within this image I feel I have portrayed a sense of rush and confusion, which exaggerates the feel of panic.

I enjoyed the brief I found that at first I did panic slightly as I do sometime find it hard to have to process ideas quickly and when I do, I usually find i'm never happy with the final product, as I feel its rushed and that if I had more time it could of been developed further, but I feel it has helped me develop my skills of having to work to deadlines and being given a very specific topic has help me have to think fast and work around something, which will be a great help in my future career.