'From capture to print'

Today we were set a task to get into groups of three and be given a brief at 10AM and have a print on the wall by 3PM. So in a group with Sara and Neil, we were given a choice of films and the one we chose was 'The Clockwork Orange'. We looked into a few of the film stills and posters etc on google, and of other peoples interpretations on flickr, but we decided to take the image base on one of the posters:

We then set off and bought a painting overall from the Dulux shop in Blackburn. Then borrowed Sara's bowler hat and doc martens and dressed her up. We also got a glass of milk as it is one of the main symbols of the film. We wanted to take some images in the studio, but on the way back stopped off to take some on location.

This was one of the first images that we were quite impressed with as the composition and colours all worked really well. The use of the wall behind was quite effective, although this image, we felt wouldn't have looked good in the triangle as on the poster.

This was the second image out of the location set that we felt was one of the stronger ones. The fact that you can see all 5 symbols from the film in it really make you think 'clockwork orange' when you look at it. With the Hat, shoes, milk, ove

ralls and make-up. The posture of Sara and gritty surroundings make this image strong, but with a different twist on the film as it is in a run down area.

We then went int

o the studio at Uni and started off producing some photo-

graphs with a black background. We felt these were the weakest images, although of all of them this is the best. The close up shot is effective and draws a lot of attention to the milk rather than it just blending into the shot.

This was our 'final' image, as we felt it really was the strongest of all the images we had taken, and had our own interpretation of the film incorporated in it. We then sent this image into photoshop and made the curve a little whiter so the image appeared a little more high key, and edited the dirt out next to her foot. Then to make it look like the original poster we were influenced by, we edited a triangle into the shot and added depth as though she was coming out of the frame. we made the background orange, instead of white, to again add our own twist onto the chosen theme. If we had had a little more time we would of made the triangle a little more precise and added text and another colour to the 'poster' to break the orange up and really make it advertise the film. This was the image we ended up printing and that was put on the wall:

The image was taken on a Canon 400D with a 28-135mm focal length. The F stop was 11, with a shutter speed of 125 and ISO of 400. The focal lenght was at 28 when the photograph was taken.