Shoot Five- Skateboarding- Work Diary

Within this shoot, I believe I have been able to successfully display different experimentation of the youth culture through skateboarding. For example, I have experimented different techniques such as animated GIFs to show the movement of skateboarding, however when I originally went out for this shoot, I didn't have a tripod so much frame moves a little bit in the middle of the GIF. I think this shoots shows how my research has helped me because the photographers Dan Boulton and Mark Vallee have highly influenced me and the style of photography and editing.

My Favourite photo from this shoot:

With the inspiration shown on my image bank from this shoot but also on my project image bank, I wanted to achieve an image which captures the anti social youth culture with the activity of skateboarding but hiding the identity of my subject- you cannot see his face yet through his clothing and the way he is walking with his skateboard there is the suggestion of the rebellion personality- he would rather be skateboarding his day away than doing something "productive" such as working (stereotypically viewed by certain audiences/ older generations). Another reason I like this photo is way the audience are able to build a personality on this subject through looking at the bottom of the skateboard- it shows a combination of arts through the collage of different images. Another reason this image is one of my favourites is the contrast in colour of the subject and the graffiti shown in the background, this is because it can be used as symbolism as youths are the creators of graffiti, yet chose to use bold colours to make it stand out and grab attention, yet they choose to dress in more muted colours, suggesting their expression is through their graffiti not their dress. 

My Least Favourite Image In This Shoot:

This image was taken for the use of creating an animated GIF, however, this certain time, the subject resulted in falling off his skateboard which I didn't want to include in my GIFs. Even though it could be argued useful in showing the raw form of skatebaording- it isn't staged as mistakes do happen, I do not believe it shows the correct affect which I would hope it too. Another reason why I do not like this photo is the lighting, as there is very little light within the skate-park- it is in a building, when taking the photo, I was looking into this building creating a dark scene. A way this could have been improved would be to change my positioning, As shown on my straight images I have achieved some photo where the lighting is clearer however to improve this, I would like to have more images where the lighting is better.

Progression: 

As I  find this shoot has been really successful in showing the key negative stereotype of youth, I would like to go back to this location to reshoot, this time using a disposable camera in order to achieve a film photo effect and also a tripod on my DSLR camera for reshooting GIFs.