Rationale

My Rationale. 

‘The Modern Violinist’

I chose ‘The Modern Violinist’ as my subject for this photography assignment.  I initially have a thought on having a typical violinist dressed in a white dress playing the violin in a park or locations with nature in it. Later on, I changed my mind and decided to do something different instead. I thought of having a violinist closely related to the present. My concept for this photo shoot is to have a violinist taking her violin around the streets. The mood of the photos will be dark, lonely, and gloomy. I wanted to make the subject closely related to teenager’s problems such as depression, lack of attention span, stress and so on. Some teenagers or young adults use abusive ways like drugs, alcohols, and many more ways to give them temporary pleasure and forget about the issues they are facing. For this photo shoot I used the violin as a substitute to represent the abusive materials. For a violinist, playing the violin can ease all worries in the mind, just like a teenager using abusive materials to ignore their difficulties. My good friend agreed to be my model and we took the first few shots for tutorial. I showed the photos to my lecturer Mr Vinod, he said the subject was acceptable but the model needs to change her outfit and the location of the photo shoot is not suitable. We went to a place nearby with beautiful graffiti walls the following week. We also did the photo shoot in a park with a lovely wall and a stunning dome. The photo shoot was done in the late afternoons so that the pictures would look gloomier and darker. We went back to the same locations after each week’s tutorial until I manage to select my final 5.