My photography shoot ideas

My 5 images have to represent different parts of me that i have Chosen to express

An African's Pride
This is the part of me that very few people know about i will use my african pennant and clothes to express my pride for my country and my royal heritage

The Poets stress
I have shown glimpses of this side my creativity in my writing will be expressed through the hat that i wear and the note pad ill be holding

The beginning of an athlete
I will dress up in my basketball gear and use my basketball and sport Jersey and medals as props

The gentalman
Nobody knows this side to me but i teach i share the knowledge i have a shirt and pen shall be used

Mother africa
This image will be the last imagie in my 5 peices i won't use any physical props the only prop will be my joy in my smile or maybe even one of my baby photo's because i still have a child heart i love to smile watch cartoons joke and even forgive and forget but also it shows my innocents as a baby

Every peice has a line of a poem in it and they are all untimely one piece

How does a prince reflect his roots?

Roots grow in different forms and are manifested differently

Learn from your roots and grow to teach others

Speak poetic parables into the lives of thoes who depend on you

Charity starts at home history and pride are reflected from your beginning so know them

I Took inspiration from two artist's Samuel Fosso And Omar Victor Diop Two African Photographer's that mean alot to me because of the way they express there art and what they use in the style of photography i combined the African print of Fosso and the portrait style of Diop and Made 5 portrait root reflections of me of my life in reverse starting from my most mature state of my wearing my African Native clothes to me in my suite and bow-tie and then me as a stressed poet trying to learn how to express myself my thoughts and feelings after that comes the last photograph and its a Photograph of a photo featuring me asleep as a baby being held by my mother to show wear everything starts my life from the beginning not knowing anything being completely relaxed and at peace with life also my Blue pendant is featured as a chain in every photo showing that i wear africa on my chest as i embrace and show it off in my first Photo to it being put on a heart around and  me in my last photo with my mother holding me literally meaning mother africa with my mother in the photo and the african pendant around the image of me and my mum

I Also formed a open broken down to one or two lines that i will read per image this shows my development as a poet my skills in creating and directing imagies and my pride in myself in all forms collectively i have named the imagies the Five Roots  Of Me they all show different sides of me that i have shared and expressed differently through things and art forms that i have embraced they all shape who i am i am proud of all art forms i also embrace my mother to me she is art she is poetic she is african she does teach she is gental and her and my father created me they are my beginning

I really loved doing this project i have to thank ann and daniel for helping me so much

this project taught me so much about taking my time in what i chose to create and shooting something more than once this photography project was tough because i wanted it to mean something since i was looking inwardly at my past and these characters and or images define me 

Sound experimental film

I want to explore the laws of sound how is it generated how can we bend it mould it and use it what does it do for people mentally how do images relate to sound and what part do our voices and ears play in hearing and creating sound then i realised that has been alot of people's choice so my experimental film is to document people and ask them what their favourite song is if they have any moments attached to it and also looking into the psychological reasoning behind that and how particular type of music almost creats mood and feeling which in turn is expressed physically through action it could be the most predictable dance or tears and in some cases suicide

I went on YouTube for some examples for my sound manipulation and measuring idea but then i realised that alot of people have done this i hate being predictable or boring i like experimental films because its exactly that an experiment and an experience i want to tap into that with my film because i believe music and sound is part of our everyday life even as babies before we learn to actually form words we know how make noises and sound i want to explore all these types of memories with sound because i believe sound and memory are linkned

what is experimental film

This is post dedicated to the question "what is experimental film" and I've chosen to take the angle and use my understanding "underground film" here is a quote from a review from and underground film 

"A Rebours is a direct assault to the frontal lobe, an exercise of extreme imagery so intense, it leave the viewer feeling violated, not just via the senses the way a film can affect a person, but physically brutalized. If there were a DVD to transform its audience into a mass of jelly quivering in the corner unable to speak, to feel, to think, to be human, it’s this one. Nothing resembling humanity or “normal” society exists on this DVD. A Rebours creates its own universe and forces the viewer to live in it at gunpoint."

This is a direct quote taken from a review from the page "Underground film journal" it highlights what underground film is to me it is a genre and a class of film making that is shot differently and gives you a different feeling when watching it because to me in watching an underground film you are almost in the film you become the film and the way people respond to certain things they see and hear and to me thats what experimental film is about its about putting the audience in a situation that focus them to react to whats happening in the film and mainstream to me is different its more planned out and has more stages and spaces within the film that gives you time to react underground film is more raw 

Andy Warhol 
   

Experimental Film

This is my experimental film based on the concept of time on an experimental format i had a week to do it and it was a fun task that shot on my phone i decided to use this style of recording because o felt like i could do more with less and given the time period i feel like i got the message across and my spoken word piece had a lasting effect on the audience because am relating what am saying to time along with the images to makes for a powerful peace of imagery

this is another experimental film created with throw back images of mine and a close person to me childhood pictures and also our grown up pictures i decided to use i picture of the London Eye as a metaphor and also as symbolic imagery to represent us migrating to London for a "Better Life" as a lot of africans don't make it over to London i used my heritage and roots as a narrative because its something i am aware of as a lot of african immigrants try to seek over to Britain because the "opportunity" that the imagine they could take advantage of being in London so understanding that and using these images to represent this and show the negative in the for of black and white and the positive in the coloured images is what wanted to do also highlight the differences in the change of music