Polaroids/Fashion Documentary

(Polaroids taken my Myself)

      Further on from my shoot, I wanted to document it by using different mediums such as other forms of photography and a film as you can see below. Using polaroids gave me the opportunity to develop a story/journey towards the end of my Final Major Project (FMP) and the transition of minimalist perspective on the human form (the models), going into clear vision of their surroundings and then black, which represents the death of them from Alzheimer's disease. In addition to this, polaroids in general add a nice touch to any project as it shows the backing work towards my shoot; the polaroids above were taking during the white background shoot. Moreover, polaroid images have a much more faded look to them as oppose to a high mega-pixeled camera which I used for my main shoot. 

     Below is a short film documentary I made using iMovie. Making a film was a good way to develop and show my work in a more efficient way by making my project look even more realistic. Furthermore, I wanted the film to look more so like a documentary as oppose to a quick fashion film because the whole reason I wanted to research "Living with Dementia" was due to watching a documentary on Dementia prior to this. The film is short and predominantly focuses on my models whilst they pose, but also get into character with themselves as patients with dementia, seeing themselves as their younger beings. Plus, I had help from my friend, Kerenza Quayum who helped film quick shots whilst I was taking the photographs of the models. I also captured my own videos which I felt would make this video much more structured and relevant for my theme. 

      Once the video was being constructed, it was time for me to find a song I felt would fit my project nicely and this being 'Love Lust' by King Charles. From this song, I looked up the lyrics and the line that proved success to me was, "Oh, lust only grows like anger and revenge or beauty comes and goes but love stays until the end". I felt that this song would be great to go alongside my theme because with Dementia, it is agreeable and completely understandable that people do become very infuriated that they forget their own memories or even their loved ones who are devastated that they do not remember theirs. Although, the positive part within this quote is that no matter if you lose your memories or start to lose yourself for that matter, the ones who love you most will always be by your side and never let you go. It is key to note that the film slides were also edited to fit the theme and I did this by adding a 'vintage' layer on top of the video to go back to the idea of representing the models as dementia patients' younger selves.  Overall, I am very happy with my fashion film which is actually the first one I have ever made, hence I feel that this will show that I am a keen fashion student who wants to try experiment with every kind of process as much as possible so that I can get the best grade. Despite this, I would have liked more help developing this film from either the tutors or from my own approach, but unfortunately I was running out of time to do so and I wanted the film to be as greatly effective as possible. Not only this, but I really like how my polaroids came out for this process, although it would have been better if I took more of them to explain my FMP journey further. 

(Fashion Documentary produced by Myself)