Final piece

My 100 images of chewing gum were each individually cropped and resized to a reasonable size. Each photo was checked that the lighting was correct and adjusted accordingly. I decided to crop each photo square as I have put them altogether to create a large square piece consisting of all 100 photos.

Final idea

I decided I wanted to take photos of chewing gum in different settings and i wanted to focus on the textures that the chewing would be placed on and also the angle of the chewing gum was positioned, I also wanted to concentrate on the angle that the photograph was taken as to create more focus on the chewing gum itself.

Also after looking at the advertisements of chewing, I decided that in a way I almost wanted to advertise the chewing gum and make them the main focus in each photo.
Here are some examples of the photos I took.

With the photos i took of the chewing gum, I tried to create many different styles of taking the photos, so i took some with a depth of field; I zoomed in closely to the gum in some and zoomed further out in others to create a contrast between all the photos. I thought very carefully about each individual photo, and the angle it would lay at and how it would be situated. 

I also wanted the final piece and each individual photo to look like an advertisement for the chewing gum, as obviously in each photo it is the main focus 

chewing gum advertisements

I have looked at various pictures of chewing gum advertisements to see how the differ, and look at the styles they use and they way they photograph them.

initial ideas

My initial idea was to create a flip book of chewing gum, where I would take a photo of a pack of gum and gradually take the piece of gum out making sure that I photographed it each time I moved it. Which would then result in me having many photos very slightly different to each other which I would of placed together to form a book which could then be flipped which would create the effect that the chewing gum was moving.

Here I experimented by taking photos of the chewing gum at different stages of pulling the chewing gum out of the packet.

Here is another way i tried of taking photos of the chewing gum of different stages of it breaking up as if it had been chewed.

I have decided against this idea it would not flow as well as I liked as a flip book, this is because I would want to use the gum itself as well as the packet. This I found would be alot trickier than I thought and would not flow as well as I liked

Image

Photograph 100 pieces of chewing gum, display them in a way that removes them from their original setting and re arranges them by form, relationship or something else.


BEN WILSON

Many streets in England have been littered with chewing gum stuck to pavements, leaving it awful to look at and clean up and Britain spends £150 million annually cleaning chewing gum from pavement.

Ben Wilson started experimenting with occasional chewing-gum paintings in 1998, and in October 2004 began doing them full time. He has created more than 10,000 of these works on pavements all over the UK and parts of Europe. Wilson transforms gum that everyday people leave behind on the streets in to art.

He scours the streets looking for nothing but gum which is obviously old, he then heats it up with a burner and lacquers it which hardens the gum and creates a surface which he can paint on with acrylic paint, and he then adds another layer of lacquer on top of the paint. Applying this to the gum beforehand allows it to stay on longer and become a permanent street presence.

STEPHEN GILL

Stephen Gill is a British photographer and after looking at his work there was one piece in particular that I liked called a series of disappointments.

In this piece he used many betting slips, scrunched and twisted to from many shapes. 

"Each of these papers began as hope, were shaped by loss or defeat, and then cast aside. These new forms perhaps now possess a state of mind, shaped by nervous tension and grief. After these images were made, little autopsies were performed on the papers to reveal failed bets held within."

I love the simplicity if these photos and how each is photographed in the same way with the same background.even though the photographers are simple there is a lot of meaning behind them.