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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