This campaign is very popular and important. It is a campaign against smoking. I think this image is powerful. I like this piece of photography because it is very creative, the photographer/creator has included a lot of thought into it. I love the darkness in the image and the model's facial expression to make the image look angry and frightening; this is a perfect emotion for the campaign because the photographer/creator is trying to get his/her point across to the public as the topic is already so popular and so many people are choosing to ignore it. The prop they have used in this image is very important and powerful, it is a cigarette gun. the gun to represent death and the cigarette to show the topic. It is powerful because he is holding the gun to his head to show that he is killing himself when smoking which is correct. This poster is disturbing but powerful and clever.
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This campaign is about abusive parents. It is explaining how anger breeds anger. The first thing you notice is the mother screaming at her young daughter, you then notice an older daughter (you can tell that it is an older version of the little girl because they are wearing identical clothes) getting angrier. The older she is getting, the more anger is being built and stored inside of her until eventually, she becomes an abusive parent. This picture is very well thought-out and powerful and creative. I like this picture because it holds a strong message. This photo makes you have to look twice, before the message clicks in your head. I like these kind of pictures because you are able to understand the whole scenario without reading any words, these kind of campaigns are very clever and stand out to me.
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This is a campaign against bullying/cyberbullying. It is explaining that words hurt more than you think and it is comparing the situation to physically being bullied. The message says 'Blood wipes away, but words are forever.' here they are explaining that if you are physically hurt, it can be fixed but words can be stuck in your head a lot longer. The girls face makes the poster alot more powerful, she is looking into the lens directly at the reader to make it more personal and she has words dripping from her nose in a red font (representing the blood). The photographer has took this picture in a studio and has used photoshop to place the girls face to a smaller part of the picture but has made her stand out because the background is dull. I like the grey colour in the background because it is a serious topic and would be more suitable to put a darker, blander colour in the background rather than a lighter, fun colour. I also like how they have made the word 'forever' bold. This is the most powerful word in the sentence and they have made it stand out so the reader notices.
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I like this picture showing cyber bullying, because they have expressed how cyber bullys are hidden behind a computer screen so they are not afraid to say anything, they are not afraid to hurt you. Its like they have a mask because you can't see their face or know who they are. For my campaign I would like to involve the mask because it has a lot of meaning and shows clearly who the predator and who the victim is
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I like this picture idea because I like the way the text messages are scattered around her and how she is placed in the middle clearly showing she is the victim.
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This is my best picture from the shoot. I like the emotion on the victims face and how the angle is slightly tilted as this allows the cyberbully's full arm holding his phone into the image. I like the positioning of the characters and how the background is quite plain so there is nothing that draws your attention there.
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This is my final piece. I edited this image over different lessons so I am not able to screenshot the method I used. Firstly, I cropped each photo in half and linked them together so they match, I then selected the 'cyberbully' side (the side wearing the mask) and used the 'hue/saturation' to darken the setting. I then matched up the faces so they are symmetrical and the face shape matches. Next I selected the background and used the 'blur' tool to out focus everything but my model. After that I Blurred and smudged the line between his face so it looked like the pictures definitely matched up and removed any imperfections. This made the image look tidier. Then I added the font and coloured some words to make them stand out. I am happy with how the image came out. In this image, the message I am trying to get across is you are still the word 'bully' , whether you are online or not, and really a cyberbully is a lot worse than a real life bully, because you are hiding behind the mask (which is a wearable representation of being behind a computer screen). If you target someone or say something mean online, you are still marked as a bully. If I were to re-edit this image, I would try to match the hair and make it look more similar texture to the image on the left.
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This is my best image from the shoot. I was not completly satisfied with my overall pictures because i believe none of them clearly portrayed my final cyberbullying message. If I was to go back to this topic I would re-take this shoot and position my camera correctly to include all details for the audience. This is my favourite image from the day because I like how I used depth of field to unfocus further along the keyboard, and I darkened the exposure to create a more serious edge to the picture. In the image you can clearly see the blood from his fingers being spread among the board and this is one of the large details I wanted to show. I also like how callums fingers are slightly blurred to show the fast motion from his hands.
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