WARM UP FINAL

   For my final I be shooting my dad working for his business on the weekend, this will be shot all over Austin wherever he needs to go for work. I want to capture what it's like to run your own business and work on the weekends, I will probably shoot this assignment this weekend or maybe next weekend depending on his schedule. The equipment I'll use is the cannon we have at home and a tripod at certain times, and maybe my phone to get some footage of him throughout the day. I want to put the video portion in the middle, meaning about for the middle of the day and for the still pictures i want to use them throughout the video to make them scattered. My narration will be at the end of the video describing my dads day.

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PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS

-Travis haughton
- Genetic Condition/deaf
- No signs in the pictures, some photos looked too set up, and the quality wasn't the best
- The sports photos they loved and some of the kid ones because of the expressions
- Some of the photos looked too set up and i liked the deaf kid with his friends living life.

- Josh Birnbaum
- Stories
- they wish he could of shown more faces in the photos, focus needs work on and his transition between photos wasn't good
- He has very nice lightening, and his good details
- I liked the humor photos but some photos didn't match the story or were too simple and didn't show anything.

- Jordan Murph
- sports
- he has missing elements, boring pictures, and his stories were bad
- they loved the creative bubbled on the swimmer, and his good composition
- I didn't like how most of the photos looked like they where taken from a phone and he wasn't really trying with his stories.


-Dustin snipes
- nice color, they loved his composition, he was great on capturing the moments. and he was right involved in the action
-i saw he was super creative with his photos and he used great color and lighting.

-The winner was chosen by looking at each and every persons context sheet which is a layout of all their photos so they can look back at their stories.

- i agree with the judges about the girl in the pool shaped as a circle, the subject is well focused and it's well light the photo also has a nice pattern to it. The story is well thought out and concentrated. The idea of the photo was great, it was really creative and outstanding,

- i disagreed with the basketball photo in black and white, the lighting seemed a little off to me but the angle wasn't well adjusted, it just wasn't a good photo to me i felt like the photographer could of done it better with the details.

MY FIRST INTERVIEW

1.  How old are you?
     "I'm 15 years old'
2. What are your hobbies?
    "I'm involved with my church youth group, taking walks and being active, and just hanging with my friends"
3. Who helped you during this journey?
     "My teachers, family and friends"
4. What made you want to become student of the month?
     "Academic grades are really important to me and it was a goal i wanted to achieve"
5. What did you have to do to become student of the month?
    "I had to work very hard in school and focus all my attention towards the award"
6. What's your inspiration?
     "My family, looking at my siblings and my parents accomplishments made me want to be like them"
7. How long have you been working for this?
    "My entire high school career"
8. What's been your favorite part of becoming student of the month?
    "The feeling of accomplishment when i reached my goal"
9. Does this achievement help you later in life and why?
    "Yes, it would help me get into colleges, and let me know i could any of my goals in life"
10. Who told you about student of the month?
      "Mainly my teachers"
11. What's your next step after student of the month?
      "Just continue working hard in school, and setting more goals"
12. Has this been your one goal throughout the year?
      "Not the one goal, but the main one to focus on"
13. What's been the toughest thing to get past?
      "percerveriance, being able to stay strong and continuing to work hard"
14. What kind of ups and downs have you hit?
      "A lot of doubt in myself, and up would be being able to achieve my accomplishments"
15. Why student of the month?
      "Because it looks good on college applications, and academic grades are important to me"
16. When did you find out you where student of the month?
      "At the end of my sophomore year"
17. How often do you get stressed over schoolwork?
      "Very often, it's been a daily struggle"
18. What are the important aspects to become student of the month?
      "It's important because it lets students be able to set goals and achieve"
19. How involved in school are you?
     "Not very involved clubs or elective wise but very academically"
20. Do you have any advice for those whose goal is to become student of the month?
     "Just to continue working hard and continue the journey because at the end it's worth it"  

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ARCHITECTURE SHOOT

ANGLES AND SHAPES

Anything other than a right angle or a rectangular shape is worth photographing, and right angles can even be interesting if photographed well. Buildings are a collection of shapes. Photographers should look at them that way and emphasize interesting geometry whenever possible.

SSURROUNDINGS

Buildings exist in a setting, and that setting helps to define the story of the building. Is the building in harmony with its surroundings or does it stick out like a sore thumb. If your shooting a wide exterior shot of a building, try to show how it interacts with the surroundings. Consider framing the building with its surroundings.

DETAILS

Wide shots of the entire building often don't give you a full sense of the character of a structure. The best way is often to get close (either literally or with telephoto lens) and get nice shots of the little details that make a building special.

LIGHTING

The way that light interacts with and travels through a building is a big part of the mood of a building. By finding areas where natural and artificial light create dramatic scenes, and photographing these with a slow shutter speed (tripod is helpful) a photographer can capture the light as it defines the building.

PATTERN

 Repeated patterns often define the large interior and exterior spaces of a building. By framing a shot so as to maximize the effects of repeated lines, structures and shapes, a photographer can capture the visual rhythm of a building.

ARCHITECTURE PREVIEW

NAUTILUS HOUSE, MEXICO

1. Javier senosiain of Arquitectura Organica
2. Was built in 2006
3. It's located in Mexico city
4. It's a private house
5. I couldn't find any
6. A young couple with children was living in a conventional home and was tired of it and wanted to live in some that had to do with nature.
7. I picked this building bc it reminds of something from Alice in Wonderland, It's so unique and creative and weird but in a good way. The idea of it seems so crazy but the artictect actually made it work, with different levels and a working bathroom. The inside is crazy like it's outside, but actually inside, from the outside it looks a little small but it's really big on the inside. The bathroom looks the coolest to me, the spout for the shower looks like something from Dr.seus and the sink as well.

CUBIC HOUSES, NETHERLANDS

1. Piet Blom

2. 1977

3. Rotterdam, Netherlands

4. They're are private homes

5. I couldn't find any

6. Piet wanted to give the concept of "living as an urban roof"

7. I picked this place because of the name and then when i saw the houses i was intrigued. The idea of living in a cube, but also not really living in a cube is crazy, i want to know how he came up with the idea on the spot. The way they're lined up is the weirdest, it's like something from minecraft. From the outside they like gigantic and so fascinating, it makes me want to get inside a giant cardboard box and picture what it's like. 

STONE HOUSE GUIMARAES PORTUGAL

1. 

2. 1974

3. Guimaraes, Portugal

4. It's a private home, but the owner moved somewhere else because of the incoming visitors and vandalism. 

5. I couldn't find any

6. It was inspired by the Flintstones cartoon

7. I picked this because of the Cartoon becoming a reality and how cool it is that someone thought to do this. When i read that it has a swimming pool and a working fireplace i was highly intrigued. It also reminds of Shrek the movie when Fionia went in the cave and moved  rock wall on the outside. It's so unique and strange looking but adorable at the same time, I would want to visit it someday. 

1. Szotyńscy & Zaleski 

2. built in 2004

3. sopot, switzerland

4. It's a public building, welcomed to visitors

5. could not find any

6. It was inspired by a fairytale and drawings by Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg

7.  I chose this picture because it looked unreal, it was like i had to see it to believe it. I could't imagine what it would be like on the inside but this photo makes me feel like it came out of a Dr.Seus story. This house reminded me of the upside down house in Orlando, Florida. 

SCULPTURED HOUSE

1. charles deaton

2. 1963

3. Genesee Mountain

4. This is a private home

5. I couldn't find how much it was to make 

6. Charles was standing high on the mountain and loved how it connected with nature so he wanted to build something that reached high. 

7. I picked his house because when i looked it up and saw how it was made it reminded me of the house in Charlie Angels and i thought it was very modern looking but also spacey looking. The fact that it looks like a taco with no straight angles or stiff arches gives it a really unique effect.