Paris,Taxas (Reflection)

Basically, this movie is produced by Don Guest, well, the movie is about of a man moving around the deserts of Texas not knowing who he his later his brother finds him and tries to remind him about the past as the unknown person had lost his memory, the person was found after four years leaving his son and wife behind, as his memory returns he tries to talk to the people from his past.

The movie starts by showing a desert in Texas and then a man(Travis) shown coming from far with slow background music. The man keeps on moving in the desert until he finds an old bar, because of luck of power in the body he falls down and he is taken to the hospital, his brother called Walt is called by the doctor and he is asked to take his brother away, but before Walt arriving his brother Travis leaves the doctor’s place, Walt finds him on the way and picks him up, taking him to a motel for a rest, Walt goes out for pick some food for the day and as he comes back he sees nothing in the room,meaning Travis had left the place, as being lucky Walt finds him on the railway and tries to talk to him, Travis had lost his memory, he had left home and now its been the forth year, this creates suspense and imagination in the movie.

Well, Walt tries to remind Travis about his past and the kid(Hunter) he had left back. Travis being in a shock doesn’t talk untill Walt becomes strict and forces him to say something, Letter on, Walt takes Trivas back home in Southern California where Travis meets his son Hunter and the wife of Walt. Walt again tried to remind him about the past by showing him some old memories and touching videos of Hunter being young back in the days. The story doesn’t end here, Hunter and Travis become great friend after and try to find out where Jane( Travis wife) had gone. They leave home with out telling any one and search for Jane, luckily Hunter finds Jane driving a red car and asks Travis to follow. Travis follows Jane untill she reached the work place, knowing were Jane works Hunter and Travis go back to the hotel, next day Travis alone comes to the work place and talks to Jane in an emotional way, Jane is brought back and Hunter meets his mom…….

I would say, the scenes in the movie are good like in the starting where the desert is shown, I think the background music would look better if it was faster according to the shots, I liked the story, having suspense, emotional scenes and happiness, although the movie was a bit long according to the script written.

Assignment 1

My Aunty and Uncle wearing Punjabi dress on wedding

Me wearing Shalwar Kamiz,my traditional and cultural wear,I always wear Shalwar Kamiz on religious occasions or other cultural meetings.

The ideas and development of my work.

Before i chose my final theme called cultures and religions,i had other ideas in my mind.

My first idea was to talk about racism and its affects in the environment I stay.by use of photography I wanted to show the disadvantages of racism and hatred of people against the different races and cultures.

My secound idea was about sterio types,my plan was to photograph a specific group of people who belief some thing special about other types of cultures or individuals.

My third idea was to photograph a specific type of religion or culture in the enviroment,i thought of expanding my project and thought of combining all the ideas together,in a way to make them one theme(similar) and then I titled my theme ‘Cultures and Religions’

why cultures and religions?

I chose this theme because they are important and they make the society unique,Cultures and Religions are important because they bring the community together as well as bring the foundation of moral values.Not only bringing the community together,cultures and religions bring individuals together and people can learn how other people behave in there cultures.Cultures and religions play an important role in shaping the principle of the individual’s life,they give its people a character of their own.

I planed to look at photographers who were interested in taking photographs relating to cultures and religion,I thought of writing a small biography about the photographers in my sketchbook,doing additional research I used magazines,journals,internet and books etc and   scanned some of the pictures relating to my theme as well as cutting out pictures from different medium for example magazines,leaflets,journals etc

My next step was to photograph using the Black and White film,using the darkroom I had to print out the photographs and select the top ten for my portfolio while sticking the other pictures in the sketch as supportive work.

I planed to use white hard paper,for mounting each of my photographs(top ten),as I believe in good presentation.

Mistakes and Problems.

NOTE:I believe mistakes are part of the work and we learn from our own mistakes.When we get problems while doing the project we learn how to overcome the problems.

while doing my project I had got some problems,i had a problem with photographing the religious places and the people,for example in the mosque,I had photographed the people around not knowing I was  not allowed to photograph the faces of the people at any time,the reason behind this was ‘we humans are made by Allah,we can not make another image,it is a big sin to do it’said Bilal,one of the officials in the mosque,as being in the same religion I was forgiven and was allowed to photograph people from the back.

Secondly,it was my first time going to the church I remember I had to take permission from the leaders of the church,I was not allowed to photograph while ‘services’ as a new comer to the church I did a mistake of photographing the priest while praying,I was asked what I was doing,being kind to the leaders i explained my project and said sorry for the mistake as I didn’t understand what services meant,well meeting good people always helps you,I was told to photograph the building of the church which helped me a lot.

My third and final place was the temple,I kindly asked the leader there if I could photograph their culture and religion,I was strictly told not to photograph and kindly was asked to sit down for a meal,well i tried my best but nothing worked for me in the temple,looking at this situation I left the temple and came back to the darkroom.

I walked back to the darkroom and started processing the films.after processing my films,I tried to print the photographs using the negatives.I used 5 by 7 photographic paper as development before I did my final pieces,I had problems with adjusting the contrast and aperture,which also brought dark photographs.

I also some times left the prints in the fixer for very little time which brought orange/golden color on the edges of the prints.Well,I also did the test strips in a wrong way.After looking at the photographs I had taken,I planned to print the best compositions in 8 by 10 photographic paper.

After printing my photographs I had seen mistakes in the photographs,the photographs were dark and some of them were grey as well.I was getting dark photographs because the natural light I was using,it wasnt enough for photography and therefore looking at the photographs I was not happy and planed to change my theme to Cricket,i remember my tutor told me ‘photographers take photographs of any thing they like’after failing to produce good pictures from the theme Cultures And Religions(maybe because of less light)I thought of photographing the cricket set I had and photographing it in the studio were I could get enough light.

Well I already got some experience from the previous theme so planed to use 8 by 10 photographic paper directly instead of making prints for development,which also saved my time although I used the same techniques to print.

 

Theme:CRICKET

                                                                                          

The starting page of the new theme called Cricket