Idea 1: Complete continuation of the pilot project

Idea 2: look into the houses of people and photograph the front end of their house and try to find some form of personality there whether it is their front door of the paint job of the house or even the belongings they might have scattered around.

Idea 3: do a project on the current situation on my personal area and bring to light some of the problems that have been going on for years, also I will try to keep it as raw as possible.

So I decided to do a similar style in my second year and took an approach towards planets and trying to keep it more enclosed almost like a bubble, so I am going to use a glass ball to mimic the enclosed space.

I am going to be shooting the first experiment on Saturday and keeping in touch with the project and experiment in many different ways. I also sketched out the rig that I am going to use as well as too the time to plan the experiment.

It almost like there is chaos within the beauty, although the landscape was beautifully drawn there is always a sense on danger.

Another person who does this amazingly is J.M.W Turner who makes any chaotic landscape beautiful in any context whether it was a volcano erupting or a storm brewing he knew how to make it look really beautiful and so did Peter Bruegel.

The reason why I picked this image is to so I can use the lighting and the composition. The way everything sits seems right but the context behind. He looks at the industry and how the dam affects the water. The story behind it makes the image itself better and that is what I want within my story, I want that 'why am I doing it?' moment.

The main reason why I picked Lang's work is because she looks at community and how it is formed through difficulty. The different communities in these images all have a similarity and that is struggle. It is always shown in different ways but in this image it is shown through how they are getting the water. Again I want this level of story telling because although it is very simple there is a lot of depth in the way that it was shot.

Both Dave and Paola said that they liked the image and said that I have managed to find a good starting point. They both that I have to just shoot more and find a way to get a more sharper and meaningful image.

Next week, I will do another shoot and test another method to shoot the image. I will also do some more research on the idea itself and find a way to make a story through the image

So I drew a vision of what I wanted the final piece to be and why I wanted it to take that shape. I decided to take an approach where I took a clock and a scene and make it so that the scene would correspond with the time. So if I took the image at 15:45 the clock would be at 15:45 with the image behind it as the clock piece.

I have managed to buy some clock hands and mechanisms from amazon. The hands were different shapes and sizes so I can try and find the right one when I am testing out what works best. I have a photoshoot this week which I will be testing the idea to see what I can do with the current clock idea.

Also as a side note in my project I have decided to ditch the idea of the clock and decided to shot then as hard-hitting images and show the actually reality of the life of area that have been effected by gangs.

I am going to be doing a photoshoot in coming week so I be able to create something with the idea but if I do not like it I will rework the idea completely and find a different way to shoot meh story and vision.

This week we managed to raise some money for the fundraiser and managed to get almost a £100 which is a big turnaround within a week so we are on course to hitting our target. The design team are working on the poster so that the social media team can have a chance to talk about the exhibition so they should soon get a poster on that. Also we will be doing a headshot fundraiser to raise more money for the exhibition. Finally the catalogue team are woking on a book dummy and finding a way to fit everyone's work into to one book as well as trying to figure out whether to make it or print it externally.

This week we did a headshot photoshoot for the fundraising of the gallery and it went really well. We have managed to push £110 into the pot which is a substantial amount and on top of that we already had a whole load of donations beforehand so we got to about the £250 mark which is a big milestone and considering we managed to raise that in almost 4 weeks we have done a great thing.

I am going to print them all as 12x12 inch prints which make a big difference but I will keep the circular shape going throughout the whole image whether it is irregular, obvious or hard to see.

We do all have the Interim show coming up next week so it will be a good way to test what I have been doing in a gallery space and it will give me a chance to think about what I have been doing and see it in a more physical space rather than my own room.

This idea just needs a bit of work and trying to find a ways to make the image striking and speak for itself.

As for Dave and Paola's feedback, they said that I have found a way to shoe the images in a different way using objects and shooting through them. They said to widen the variety of object and use the corresponding object for the nature of the image.

Now I am planning to the the images as 12x12 inch prints to mimic the idea of album covers to I might stick with the A3 print and just have writing front the roll rather than keeping it empty. A lot of gang activity or gangs in general are heavily linked with music. In the UK you have different styles of rap like Hip Hop, Grime and Drill. All of these genres talk about the life and how they glamourise it when really the path in this life is highly dangerous and possibly can get you killed. That is the harsh reality that I want to portray in my images.

The feedback that I got from everyone is that I needed to find a way to weave a coherent project rather than looking at the design aspect of it. I will say that I always focus on making it look good rather than making it make sense. It is one of those things that I always do and it is something that I can't change but now I am going to look into more album covers due to what Dave said. He said to be me that the project that I am producing almost looks like an album cover because of the size of it. The prints were meant to represent how things are not changing but maybe I can do that through stories rather than design. I am going to make a is it to the post office worker and get his opinions on the situation as they have a pulse on the whole community and maybe I can use the stories and make them almost come true.

This week I am going to do research on some of the greatest hip hop/rap albums of all time. Some of the albums I can think off of the top of my head is Nas' Illmatic and 50 Cent's Get rich or die tryin'. These albums was a meaning of depiction for the life that both of these rappers used to live but due to certain events around the USA at the time these types albums got a bad rep from the media outlets saying that the younger generation are getting brain washed into thinking violently which is not the case in anyway because if you listen to some of the lyrics it talks about their past and how they had to grow up. In one of 50 Cent's songs he talked about being shot 9 times in the chest and being fine from it, the media painted some of the lyrics in a bad light because of the amount of shootings that where going on but he simply made a statement on what happened to him at the time.

One way that I could do that is by making double sided album covers and have them framed. We also talked about having some images that related to the theme to some of the albums to show the critical thinking and having that ultimate why.

I have kind of figured out why I am doing it which is a big thing in my opinion because it gives me a chance to create what I need to. Having a clear vision is important during this time. My ultimate why is I want to campaign for the gang violence in my area. I wanted to show that it is not a glamorous life because it is always glamourised by certain people. One of the ways that I have managed to that show that is through music specifically through the 90's and the early 2000's. This was the best period for hip hop because of the way people would rap about their struggles and how they have made it out, nowadays it doesn't seem that genuine sometimes unless they have already been to prison. I just wanted to show people that this life is not easy to live in any way shape or form.

Here is the file for one of my other final shoot I enjoyed the process of creating these images and I had a friend help me to take the images around Newham and get them done.

These were shot digitally but the ones that I have to form week 13 were all shot on a 35mm colour film roll which gave really good results considering that I thought that I would somehow mess up the image but I have managed to do a really good job and merging it with the new theme will work.

I have also decided to make a rendition of tree different albums and I decided to pick Bugzy Malone's Facing Time, Nas' Illmatic and Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP 2.

Next week I will work on the edits and get them finished as soon as possible to give them and give them a good printing time window.

I also decided to frame these and use a different paper compared to the other because it is very thick where now I am going to see a enhanced matte paper which is 250 gsm as opposed to a 310 gsm. I will also be framing my images and I about 5 box frames Amazon andI tested them out beforehand from hobby craft so it isn't a massive problem in terms of getting the prints rights it's more about whether they will arrive on time.

These are all of the final prints and I am super happy with the outcome and how they look each frame as well. First I done an initial test print so I can see how much I need to bigger need to print so I can fill in the empty white space.

Now that I have reprinted them they look even better than anticipated and I am well happy with the result and the end is near.