DC#3 (Final): run.hide.fight.

My pdf for my book is here under DC#3-Book or just click that button thing in the right corner there

Book pages (slideshow cut some of these off-so I set it up to Masonry mode so you could see each page

Ideation:

Since the ideation process for this was informal, so I didn't really do any mind mapping or planning. It was me cycling through different ideas in my head. I thought about recreating scenes from my favorite movies, recreating Nick Miller scenes (New Girl character and person I relate to the most...I'm pretty sure I am him), just taking pictures of Denver, modern day paintings, etc. I settled on this idea of passenger seat. This was in part inspired by some of the rejects from Design Challenge #2. I started off by taking pictures by the tollway by my house. Both of my previous design challenges have been this kind of melancholic aesthetic and I did want to keep that up as well. They also both had pieces that focused on cars. I really love being in cars, I think it's the best place to listen to music, really deep conversations with people always seem to happen with me in cars when it's super late, and it's just kind of calming to me. The same goes for the bus and all that jazz. I thought this was a nice way to connect all of them and serve as a pt. 3 of sorts.

The idea was to just take pictures as a passenger seat person. It was meant to be kind of a lot of places and have cool night driving vibes with lights and stuff. I realized when I had around 500 photos that it wasn't going to work. Taking photos in a moving vehicle was tricky, and I lost aim of what exactly I was trying to do pretty fast so I reworked the idea. I didn't like how almost all the pictures looked. I made it so it wasn't literal but metaphorical. This not only made it really fit with my other two design challenges but it opened up more wiggle room for what I could shoot.

Taking the photos:

I did just try to take a lot of photos on my commute or whenever I was in the car and someone else was driving. I wanted to get different times of the day, and different effects. I used a DSLR camera and my iPhone.

I used 34 photos total (

Contact Sheets :

Total

The Final and Edited Photos on a Contact Sheet

*I did not end up using the Don Quixote picture and two are rejected images from #2

31 new photos shot specifically for this challenge, 33 total

Putting it together:

I knew before that it was going to be a kind of pastel palette. As I was figuring out exactly how I wanted it to look I also decided I wanted it to increase in saturation and vibrance (while looking some clarity b/c I wanted it too look kind of dreamy) as it went along. This is because it is moody and lowkey depressing, and I wanted it to end on a hopeful note. I also wanted the first and last pictures to be of the same thing. So, we begin with a black and white image of a sign and the road and we end with that same arch with me and some color. That image is actually one of the images that I was going to choose as a final for DC#2, but knew I was doing this as my topic and decided it fit with this DC much better. The other was some clouds that were really pretty and deserved to be seen.

I really missed color so it was fun to oversaturate some of the photos. All in all, I'm kind of over pastel, moody suburb and creatively can move on now (but can I cus DC#5 will also be moody b/c we chose Twilight). I guess when that's done it will truly be the end of this "era" for me if we want to be dramatic. Along with all that fun stuff, I also wanted to throw in random glitched ones because I learned last week that color shifting is my favorite thing to do ever. The words for the book started off in my head as fragments and then came together once I finished shooting, and I wrote it all down right there. It's mushy and has ~emotions~ but it works with the theme.

Rough draft of that (I had to decipher my own handwriting because my handwriting's not good when I'm brainstorming because ideas come out fast and furious):

Considering there was a point when I thought this project wasn't going to work at all, I'm really happy with how it came together. It looks cohesive which was one of the things I was worried about, and I had fun putting it together.