Assignment 3: U C what I C (Visual Story)

Assignment 3 was very exciting to me, since I enjoy photography and drama. This assignment gave me the opportunity to explore storylines, and this was what I did. I first drew up storyboards for my different ideas, to try and plot out the pictures:


Then I decided to change the storyline a little, since it's V-Day and CNY soon. Also, I was going to bake cookies, so I thought - why not?

Instead of going explaining everything photo by photo, I think its best if its viewed as a whole, so you (or whoever is looking at it) can form your own impressions and try to guess what the story is. The explanations will come later... So here goes my 10 photos:

Story goes like this:

It's 14 Febuary, Valentine's Day. I decided to bake cookies for the person I liked to make him happy. After I baked the cookies, I saw that the guy I liked was with another girl. I then went to a window and acted as if I was going to jump off, but the twist in the end shows that I was actually spring cleaning and wiping the windows - Chinese New Year.

Those in the tutorial commented that the picture of the guy and the girl in the background didn't do justice to the photo - it didn't seem as though they were together, that he should have put his arm around her. I agreed with them and had wanted to 'direct' it such that his arm would be around her, but unfortunately my friends whom I asked to help out weren't a couple in real life (and the guy is happily attached to someone else) so they were reluctant to pose in that manner.

Kids these days. Haha.

Also, in this picture, I was supposed to be crying, but I kept putting eye drops and took the same photo so many times but yet it didn't manage to capture the tear, so in the end that photo was the best I could do. Haha. Squint and look closely, you might catch a gleam. :)

I think I'm quite proud of this assignment - it's probably the best I've got so far. Maybe its because I don't have to use much computer software for this one. Haha.