Monday, 28 April 2014

PH1302- Political Montage


Part Three

For this assignment I had to produce two digital photomontages with either a social or political theme, I started by researching on both Traditional and Contemporary examples of political montages. John Heartfield was an Anit-nazi he expressed his thoughts and views on world war two by using photomontage, photomontage allowed Heartfield to create loaded and politically contentious images.

His images are very powerful and striking, which is what he wants as it gets the viewers attention and the message across, I really like how he has used this technique to get across a strong subject its very clever.














After looking at my research and thinking about what themes I could do for my photomontage I came up with the idea of stereotypical Scouser’s, I collected imagery and organised them onto a Prezi as a sort of mind map. What I hoped to get from Prezi was whilst looking at the collection of images I was to spark up ideas,
My idea is to turn a famous painting or celebrity into a stereotypical Scouser and a Famous Scouser who isn’t the everyday stereotypical Scouser into one.















I gathered photos that fitted around my ideas, The Beatles seemed to be the best option as I would be able to manipulate them a lot and on a comical side it would be funny. I collected photos of The Beatles so I had a variety of images to pick from or experiment with. I did the same for my second photomontage, which will be on The Queen.

I started by manipulating a photo of The Beatles by adding stereotypical features to them such as an Afro, Primark bag, Rollers and the North Face these are iconic and what people know Liverpool people for. On Photoshop I used tools for example the magic tool and the rubber to erase parts of the image I don’t need then using layers to build the photo together.

As one of the features I added to the image had a pop art effect I decided to change my full photomontage so it had a pop art effect, I achieved this by going to filter gallery and using ‘Cutout’. Now the photo has an overall consistent look, which I am happy about, finally I added a well known typical Scouse saying ‘ Dey Do Do Dat Dough Don’t Dey Dough’ I feel this adds to the comical side of the montage.












For my second montage I chose the queen I wanted to make her look like a typical Scouse girl so I manipulated the photo by added rollers and Scouse brows. I feel compared to the first Photomontage this is simpler and not as good this is because I had rushed the idea and never gave myself enough time to experiment. However I believe I still got the concept across but personally I dislike it.








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