Gregory crewdson worksheet

Gregory crewdson worksheet

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  Gregory Crewdson Fill out thefollowing Frayer Model on Gregory Crewdson, in DOT points ONLY. (Using the SLIDES in the PowerPoint) Answer the next questions after viewing Gregory Crewdson trailer ‘Brief Encounters’ in SENTENCE form. Using the Structural Frame discuss this quote in reference to how Gregory Crewdson constructs his images, ‘something always necessarily goes wrong’, Crewdson. Who? How? What? Why?
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  What do GregoryCrewdson’s photographs portray? (HINT: reality or fiction?) ‘Gregory takes great pains to create these fantastical worlds that are seemingly real’, discuss as a class. What is a Large Format Camera? Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches or larger. The cameras used can either be the Hasselblad, Rollei, Kowa, and Pentax cameras (using 120- and 220-roll film). The main advantage of large format, film or digital, is higher resolution. A 4×5 inch image has about 16 times the area, and thus 16× the total resolution, of a 35 mm frame. In early photography, large format was all there was, and before enlargers were common. Many large formats are horizontal cameras designed to make big negatives
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  for contact printingonto press-printing plates. In general large-format camera use, the scene is composed on the camera's ground glass, and then a film holder is fitted to the camera back prior to exposure. A separate Polaroid back using instant film is used by some photographers, allowing previewing of the composition, correctness of exposure and depth of field before committing the image to film to be developed later. Failure to "Polaroid" an exposure risks discovery later, at the time of film development, that there was an error in camera setup. Using the information below (1) annotate the image below and (2) Briefly discuss the image in relation to the conceptual framework using your scaffold from last lesson. Yellow= History of art movement Green= Short description of the artwork Pink= Linking/ Quotes/ Structural frame words. Gregory Crewdson
 Untitled from the series ‘Beneath the Roses’ 
2004
 Digital carbon print
144.8 x 223.5 cm
. The photograph seems utterly serendipitous: a boy stands under a bridge, framed by lush trees, and directs his (and the viewer's) gaze heavenward through backlit fog toward some unseen attraction. But nothing has been left to chance. The photographer, Gregory Crewdson, scouted the spot under a Massachusetts railroad bridge for a month, and a crew of about 40 people spent days setting up the shot.
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  The illumination comesfrom lights suspended from cranes, and the fog rises from hidden machines. Crewdson instructed the boy, who had been hanging around the bridge, to imagine "a dream world where everything is perfect." Such preparation for a single photographic image may seem a bit much, but this was a relatively simple Crewdson shoot. For some of the photographs collected in his new book, Beneath the Roses, he shut down public streets, used rainmaking machines to produce downpours—even simulated a raging house fire. He uses such Hollywood-scale production techniques to create what he calls "in-between moments"—interludes just before or after unspecified but obviously momentous events. His pictures set the stage for a story, but the viewer has to flesh it out. [Sourced from: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gregory-crewdson.html#ixzz2jZcgy31J, 4/11/13] Quotes: "When I'm making my pictures, I never really think about what happens before or what happens after," says Crewdson, 45. "It's just about trying to find something elusive and beautiful and mysterious in the world," Crewdson. He uses the landscape as a giant photo studio; seeking locations that he says evoke the "familiar and unfamiliar." The resulting pictures, typically stitched together from negatives scanned into a computer, "His images look like paintings, but they give you an emotional feeling stronger than a lot of movies you'd walk away from," says Rick Sands (Director of photography) "If you read a screenplay, it is telling you where to go....You take yourself places in one of his pictures." History of the art movement. When was it…… What was going on at the time…. Relate the question to the selected artist in ONE sentence. Use words such as for example…. These include….. consequently shown in…… Green= Short description of the artwork What do you see in the work? Where was it painted? What is the setting? What does it show to an audience?
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  Pink= Linking/ Quotes/Structural frame words. What form is the artwork? e.g. painting, sculpture, photograph What materials and techniques are used? What cultural conventions of artmaking are shown e.g. landscape, nude, portrait, still life Describe the art elements: line, direction, shape / form, colour, tone, texture / pattern, mass / space What do others (critics / historians) say about the techniques and use of the elements and principles of design in the artwork? Conclusion Remind your audience about the most important points in a summary sentence or two. In conclusion…… Therefore…… In summary….. Consequently……