Self Evaluation

Sean Warman

Professional Frameworks 2, Self-evaluation report.

Professional frameworks 2 (Editorial Assignment), has been for me one of the most challenging assignments so far. On the module I have been faces with numerous setbacks ranging from technical aspects to family bereavement that I have had to work around.

Initially when receiving the brief, I had a good idea as to what I wanted to do, and felt that I could achieve it in the time permitted. The first idea was to visit my local art café, and photograph the customers there with their finished work and get a testament from them as to why they likes the café, and if they were a returning customer, what it was that made them want to return.

The Café idea seemed strong at first, however what it came to doing the work the practicality of doing my work at that location became an issue due too poor lighting and space to photograph. From this it lead me to re think my initial idea to something that could incorporate a number of cafes into one set of editorial images.

The project is about the demise of the café industry through large chains like Starbucks and Costa. The Extended captions for the images are the people’s reasons for going to the smaller non chained cafés as opposed to the larger companies. Many captions were to do with the more personal service and preferable food quality.

The project over all has been fairly successful and after many attempts I did get the photos I wanted and the captions that fit well with each image, if I was to undertake a commission like this in the future, I would want portable studio lighting as this would give me more control over my final images.