1. Proposal
Sanem Esra Koyupinar
For my final product I will be creating a trio of images based
on the theme of discovery of life and death, my images will
all be created using multiple techniques such as photo
manipulation on Photoshop and multi media. Because the topic
of life and death can be difficult to understand for younger
children I believe that my audience range would be aged 16+ so
that the messages in my images can be understood clearly.
My first piece i am wanting to bring across the other reaction
and the influence of death and life and how it may effect
peoples lives. In my first photograph I am wanting to bring
across the most common influence of death which Is sadness, I
will be expressing this by taking two head shots of my model
of her expressing happiness sadness and once I have got the
images that I am satisfied with I will begin to alter them on
Photoshop. In Photoshop I will add black and white filter to
the happiness image and also change the contrast and
brightness levels of the picture, for the second image of
sadness I would keep the image in the same colour tones but
just alter the contrast and brightness levels to make the
feature on my models face stand out. Once both of the image
have completed the editing on the image I will crop both the
images in half and join them both together so that they create
one overall image. I will then print the images out and work
on them with mix media (inks, acrylic paints), by using my
mixed media I am wanting to build onto the features which
will hopefully allow the features on my photographs stand out
more.
For my second photograph I am wanting to create the opposite
of my first photograph.I am wanting to bring across the other
reaction that people may have by death which compared to my
first image would be that death may not always be a bad thing
for most people and how it may be life itself that makes them
sad and upset. I will be doing this by using the same theme as
my previous photograph by taking two photographs of my model
expressing different emotions but this time while altering my
images I am wanting to add the bright effect to the photo with
the sad photo which will be representing death and the dark
effects and filters on the happy images which will be

2. representing death. Once completing the editing process I will
then again be working on the images using mixed media
(inks,acrylics&pastels), during this process I will be trying
to make the message of the photographs stand out more. My
initial idea is to add dark shades with a contrast of light
colours on the life side of the image to represent the
darkness of life whilst adding bright shades on the death to
represent the peacefulness and calmness that death can bring
to a person.
My last image will be ambiguous photograph, in this photo I am
wanting to capture a photo of two hand reaching to each other
as if they are about to hold each other. After capturing a
photo that I am satisfied with I am wanting to do slight
alternations such as playing around with different filters and
then build onto the image by using mixed media. My initial
plans for this photo is to split the photo into halves by
creating one side of the hand colourful and one dark by using
some kind of mixed media. By doing this I am going to allow my
audience to use their own opinion on the image as the photo
reflects both messages in the previous pictures so it could
either be death trying to hold onto life or the common option
of death wanting to hold onto life.