4D – Assignment 2

Amongst the Crowd 

In our current generation, smartphones have dominated the whole world, causing people to helplessly become dependent on it. The impact has become so great that even in newspapers, it is inevitable that some pictures have a particular person or a group of people using a phone. Therefore, I cut out images from newspapers that shows someone using a phone in the background or when he or she is not the main subject in order to express people’s obsession with smartphones.

Planning 

I wanted to do on a topic that is somewhat related to my first subject which was on mean comments. Since mean comments are related to social media, and technology, I have decided to do on a topic about people’s obsession with phones. 

Original Idea

Initially, I wanted to use an idea where I manipulate objects onto people’s faces. Each picture will have a different object chosen, and it would also symbolise something different. Here are the images that I had originally picked:

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 deadwalkers even-if-youre-not-playing-pokmon-go-its-easy-to-spot-who-is-just-look-for-the-mobs-of-people-looking-down-at-their-phones looking-down-at-phones

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 smartphone smartphone-train tumblr_odgtyz8qek1rwjpnyo1_1280

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Most of the images had people looking down on their phones which shows their dependence to their phone.

Ragged clothings are usually worn by poor people, and in a worst situation, by slaves. Hence, I wanted to used a ragged shoe to symbolise their enslavement to the phone.

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However, Robert said that it would be more interesting if I took my own pictures instead of taking images online, but I felt that I would not have enough time to complete it in a week. 

Another suggestion he gave was to take images from newspapers instead. Which leads me to my finalised idea.   

Final Idea

While I still have the aim of trying to show people’s obsession with smart phones, the newspaper gave me an idea of finding images where there are “accidental” shots of people using their phones in the background. The purpose of newspapers is to provide daily information about the world, which is very formal and serious. However, it is unavoidable that there are some shots that has people in the background using their phone. Thus, I decided to cut them out those images.

Testing some layouts:

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