GCSE Photography Component 2 Question 3: Messages

Question 3: Messages Barbera Kruger, Martha Rosler and Lorna Simpson combines words and phrases with their photographs to convey messages. In his animation ‘Awesome Stuff Week’, designer and illustrator Kyle Bean uses stop frame process for title sequence in a You Tube advertising campaign. Study appropriate sources and produce your own work that conveys a message by combining words with photographs. My initial idea for this question is...

Message I plan to produce a series of three photographic images which convey a message about.... I will use the words/quotes….

Mindmap Locations Typeface Message Subject matter Messages School studio with white backdrop Mindmap Typeface Colour theme Style Message Song lyric / Quotation One word – PEACE Subject matter Portrait of female Personal possession Messages Photographers Barbara Kruger Editing style Symmetrical double exposure

Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is an American photo collage artist who uses black and white photography with red and white coloured graphic elements to make bold statements about identity, power and sexuality

Martha Rosler Rosler uses images and word association to attempt to show the state of a run down area of New York called the Bowery in a series called ‘The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems’.

Lorna Simpson Lorna is an African American photographer whose work tries to communicate the challenges related to both being black and a woman in modern America.

Photo Shoot Plan My Message Subject Matter Location Style Portrait of a girl Studio set up in school with white background. Black and white, unusual viewpoint My Message

Contact Sheet

Editing Slides (minimum of 3) with Typeface edits

Final Edit Presentation