Whilst I continue to place more study time and research in. I need to address a few things in order of priority. All the emails I’ve sent in regards to my essay have been of benefit. I’ve started to read more, little and often. I’ve even brought a few books on my kindle to read whilst the wife is shopping and I’m sat in the car waiting. This has helped in how I will structure my work. My window in my room at work has become my new whiteboard for notes and an area to place any stickiness or keynotes.
It is still a struggle to read and hold the attention without getting distracted by something like a cloud moving or a bird circling above the car.
Its time then to take a break and rest the eyes and come back to it later on. How I write is the next step into structuring academic writing. Creating something that has an introduction and structure to it. No padding it out with how I’ve done it and what I used. More of how I’ve come about this concept and how I’ve decided to edit the picture the way I did.
It is a new playing field and new rules to learn. Picture taking and creating a composition is all part of the course, writing should now support my ideas with a solid foundation with writing to support the picture and not the other way round which I have been hoping the pictures paint a thousand words rather than having to write them.
Assignment five is not that far from finishing, just the final adjustments and this should be ready to submit. An introduction will need to suggest why a single composed picture id fit for this assignment. Compositionally it feels fine, the edit lacks something to bring it together, the concept is there. Soldier, Civilian and Veteran works.
Distractions are kicking in now, I keep looking at the pictures and how Ill make this tear work better.
Part Two Context and Narrative BA HONS in Photography OCA 