Review of my coursework!

The way in which my final piece reflects my chosen theme of 'hidden' is through a hidden meaning. In my final images, i am reflecting the use of media on celebrities, and how their whole lives get swallowed up by stories and articles about them. I chose to use the same model, and for my images i ripped up a few newspapers into small pieces, and then filled up my bath with water. My model then got into the bath and i covered her in the newspaper, leaving just her face showing. For my final piece, i used the editing website 'picnik' as i am comfortable with using it and like the range of effects that it offers. I chose to edit each image in the same way, to continue the same theme throughout my final piece. When editing the images, i used the black and white tool to make the models face black and white, but i left the newspaper pieces in colour to exaggerate how important and dominant the media is in the lives of celebrities. I then increased the exposure slightly, and increased the shadow. I then used the '1960s' tool which i think gives a really nice vintage tone, especially to the colours on the newspaper. I decreased this effect by a range of 60% - 70% (depending on each image) as i didn't want the effects to overpower the image. There isn't really much range in the depth of field apart from on the first image, where you can clearly see that there is a shallow depth of field as only the face isn't in focus.