Group Project Discussion

My group was well organized and everyone pulled their part.  Our word was indifference, which was difficult at first.  The word indifference itself means “lack of interest or concern.”  The firs thing my group did was focus on examples of what we thought indifferent meant to us, and where we could find it in everyday society.  We came up with some examples like, walking past a homeless person and not acknowledging them or pollution washed up on the shore of a beach.  Once we though of these examples we decided how we were going to do the project.  We decided to all work separate and all take 10 photos.  Although we worked apart, we united as a group and were able to pick the strongest photos. 

Ian went to Georgeortown where he stood on a corer documenting all the people walking by this homeless man that was simply asking for money.  He contributed a lot by going out shooting for about an hour.  Alex went away that weekend and took photos of liter on beaches.  Last Jaclyn took photos of people throwing trashcan next to the garbage instead of taking the extra step and putting it in the garbage.  These were all great examples of indifference.

Then came my contribution to the project and I didn’t have to travel far.  Walking around Tenley Town, it was overwhelming the amount of indifference that was taking place.  There were newspaper stands knocked over, beer cans thrown on the ground in a residential area, but what shocked me the most was the plastic bottles thrown in the trashcan.  American University prides itself on being a green campus and clearly most people in Tenley Town are American University students.  Therefore when there are recyclable bottles thrown in the trashcan, it defies our green statement. 

When taking the picture of the bottles in the garbage I decided to use an angle of high to low.  This was to show that the viewer can literally look down into the trashcan and realize that they are better than this because the angle they are at is higher.  When shooting I took many different angled shots and I even tried making it from the prospective of the poor bottles in the trashcan but I felt that to get in touch with my audience I needed to make them feel that they were better than this.  That’s why I chose the angle that I did, and hopefully the message was clear.