Book Assignment

The book that I read over the summer is called Beloved, by Toni Morrison. This book is about slavery and the effects of it. Upon learning about this assignment I immediately thought of anything that had to do with slavery such as using handcuffs. I knew that by showing handcuffs and chaining of the cuffs on the door shows that it deals with slavery. I took this picture of handcuffs with someone attached to one side of it and the other attached to the door to show that slavery is bound to the master and the house. I actually had a hard time trying to get a perfect shot of it because the angles were kind of hard to figure out when you want to try to capture that perfect shot angle of the handcuffs. Out of all the shots i took, i really liked this one because the person is handcuffed to the door and he has no way of freeing himself. It clearly shows that a slave is someone who is bound to the land and master and is not free. At first i was going to go for a scene in the book of Beloved, but then Ms. Miles said that it doesn't have to be necessarily from the book itself, but from the main concept of the story line, which was for this story, slavery. Overall, i thought that the picture clearly conveys what slaves are.

When I edited this photo, i played with the lighting and i kind of darkened the edges to show a feeling that is somewhat dark and emotional. I really like the lighting because its not too bright but not too dark. The dark conveys a feeling of sadness because slaves really want to be liberated, yet they are bound to the master and doesn't have freewill.

Stop Action Movie Project

For this project, it was a little difficult to work with so many people in the group because not everyone was working and many people were sitting on the couch. My job was the background and everytime i walk in me and some other person always do the background that we needed to use so that when it is time to shoot we don't have to struggle with it later. When it was time to put the props together no one was preparing the table, tree, and the bench, I was one of the only people that made sure the props were in place.

During the photoshoot, the model was moving too fast so we kept telling her to slow down. The first time, we messed up in some of the shots and so we had to start all over. By the second time around, we were able to capture the pictures that we wanted and it was time for editing. Nicole was the one who edited the photos into moving pictures. She actually did a good job of doing that, so props to her :] She was also able to add a song with it which made it pretty cool.

Overall, i think the assignment should have been better if the groups were smaller because we would have worked better if it was only a little bit of people and no one was sitting around doing nothing.