This project was interesting, though I wish we had approached it differently. The assignment was to make a single frame narrative out of three images, representing a physical or emotional place using the past, present, and future. Two images of your own and one found. I made my project around the “first day of fall” and the emotional place it has for me and for others. The second part of the project was to then extended it into 10-12 frames.
My first frame,
was of my past, last fall, when I had just started dating this guy, and we went out into the woods on a hike and sat overlooking the changing leaves and river. I had just turned 18, my senior year was beginning and the world felt fresh and new. It felt like the first day of fall to me, and I am glad I captured that feeling in the photograph. Over it is my current beginning of fall. My new friend Blake, smoking a cigarette as he looks forward (and into the future). They are both in my found image, a new york city puddle with fall leaves in it, which represents the future. The past, and my present, are both reflected in the future, since our future is built out of our past and present. It is a reflection of them. I know I will live in New York for a long time, and thus this fall puddle will be a great indicator for me when I reach that point in my life.
I then turned it into a 12 frame narrative. I included some color boards, where I took fall colors and put them together into collages of them, in ways I believe reflect the fall for me. I also included halloween, and happiness, and warm clothes, and leaves, and indoor lighting instead of outdoor. Fall is my favorite season, and the beginning of fall marks the beginning of the year for me, and the beginning of new things.