Grandad and Grandchild Story

This is carrying on from my last blog, www.jgaphotography.blogspot.com .

 An idea that I have had for the theme of stories is a Grandad's child hood or story and what things were like for him when he was younger in black and white, then photos of what things are like now with technology and bright colours representing the child now a days.
         To show this as a piece of work I thought I could link it to my triptych work at the start of our stories project. I could have a photograph of the Grandad with the Grandchild in the middle, then on the left I could have an old book with stained pages with the black and white photographs for the Grandad. On the right I could have a computer screen or tablet with the bright, colourful photographs to denotate what things are like now for the Grandchild. I thought that I could try to show things like transport, communication and technology.
       I went to a place called Walford Mill in Wimbourne to take some photos in black and white because I had heard that it was an old area with some old buildings. When I got there, most of these buildings had extensions on them, posters and advertisements over them so I had to find different angles to cover these to make the photos look old. This ruined some of the photographs because I could not get the right angle for the image.
        When I arrived there I noticed that the area had been modernised and there was only a few buildings that I could take photographs of.
         This photo was around the back of a cafe so they hadn't updated this area yet. I had to try to move around to stop the tree taking up most of the photograph.

                                               
I found an old mangle next to a river just outside a house so I tried to take photos of this, however, my lens does not have a good enough zoom so I had to crop the photo down to get a clear photograph of it.

After moving around trees, bushes and climbing on posts, I could only get a two clear angles where I was close enough to zoom and get sharp photos.

I thought about technology and how I could show this change and when I saw this sun dial I thought that I could show the difference in how we tell the time with new expensive watches, phones and computers.

I saw an old lamppost through a bush and thought that I could use this bush to frame the lamppost.

Whenever you see an old fashioned film there is always that moment when somebody walks or cycles across a bridge and this old bridge reminded me of this so I took some photographs.

I realised some people were crossing so I waited until they were in the middle of the bridge and there were no cars crossing. After taking this photograph I have thought I will not use it in the final project because I will try to keep more of a constant theme in the photographs by not having people in the old photographs.

For the middle image in the triptych I had two ideas. Firstly, I thought that I could have the Grandad telling the Grandchild a story from an old book maybe on the Grandad's lap or when the Grandchild is going to bed.

The other idea I had was the Grandchild and Grandad sitting next to eachother and the Grandchild showing the Grandad photos of a holiday on a tablet or phone or showing a new game and the Grandad looking confused.

For the images that will be putting on the computer screen for the Grandchild photos, I will try to keep the child in the photographs. I might have to use different children so I will try to make them wear a hoodie or jumper so that there is not a big change in the photographs.

When we think of 'new', many people think of technology so I will get the Grandchild to hold an iPod/iPhone or a tablet and maybe be sat next a Christmas Tree full with bright lights to make the image look more modern.