4D Project 2: Sequentially – Impossibilities of being

Creative Process from Tan Wei Ming on Vimeo.

My idea is to show the (creative process) through turning into a LEGO character.

Why LEGO? LEGO means Imagination (thinking process needs imagination)

There are 4 key transformation throughout the 90 images. The objects / locations I used have it’s own secondary meaning.

1. Indoor (Thinking inside the box)

9Toilet bowl (Gender stereotype)

10Getting changed (social pressure)

21Making coffee (Trap by money: food on the table)

25Reading news (Controlled media)

2. Outdoor (Thinking outside the box)

27Keys (Freedom = Think Freely)

34Exploring plants (A new life = a new start in thinking)

46Playing the slide (Learning through fun and experience)

 

3.Playing with friends (exchange ideas)

74Doing the same thing together (achieve different results from different people)

PrintSitting in circle talking (Exchanging ideas through discussion)

4.Nightmare (Being criticize)

PrintRunning away from human (Being criticize by a superior)

PrintBeing place in a box (back to square one, thinking in the box again)

 

In the end, I woke up and it was just a dream.

 

Learning points

  • Using the same photo but at a different situation creates 2 different meaning. (lift going up or going down)

Improvements

  • I should have explore more places to take photographs.
  • I should have make the colours stronger in each photos.

Project 1: Picture Story – Curating Self

What defines you as a person?
I would like to think that we are not just defined by how we look, our personality or behavior, things that are distinctively “us”. We are also very much defined by external factors like our family, our friends, places that we have been to, experiences that we have had. And because of the many things that help shape us, we are not always “consistent”. Sometimes we are shy, sometimes we are chatty. I may love tea at first, then grow to love coffee after.
Hence, I wanted to show this variety and complexity within us through the photos in the 3 tasks.


Task 1 (Me)
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Task 1 (2.2)

Task 1 (3.1)

In the first task about “me”, I didn’t choose to feature myself in all 3 photos. I wanted to show my brother (the contrast between us bring out my personality even more), my collection (which reflects both my interest and my personality) and boiling water (to represent my temperament and health condition). 3 different subjects, 2 of which are metaphors (aka signified, application of theories learnt in class right here), for the different parts of me.


Task 2 (Object and representation of self)
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In the second task I purposely chose 3 photos of different subject distance. Full-figure, mid-range and close up. To show the different feelings and emotions I have for/ with my “Tao Tao” – happy, content, and sleepy (duh!) respectively haha.


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In the third task of my world, i have chosen my dad’s car as the place because when I’m in the car I feel safe (although it’s not really safe at all). I feel like I’m in another world without other people / troubles when I’m in the car covered with foam. I played with different perspectives and vantage points, e.g. my view as the driver, my passenger’s view of me through the mirror, again to emphasize how different I can be when I view myself vs others viewing me.
All in all to show the complexity of defining myself. Well, us humans are complicated beings after all.

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The black piece of paper represents my comfort zone. I don’t normally like to share my personal stuff with anyone. But for this project I shared one of my secrets to the class, which is why the picture (boiling blood) is outside of the paper to represent how I stepped out of my comfort zone.

 

Key learning points

  1. Present my photos in a more organized manner
  2. Learn and apply different photography techniques (low light, low key portraits)