Film Noir Photograph research

1.What time period do you think the photograph was taken? Give

reasons for your answer.

Late 70's early 80's, because the quality of the image isn't very good/clear, also colours in the

image are very saturated, also the way that the people are dressed and also there isn't much

health and safety as there was no doors on the train, whereas nowadays there would be loads of

accidents.

2.What do you think was the genre/subject?

This genre could be advertising a holiday advertisement as it is a photograph of a part of the

destination.

3.Are the elements in the shot balanced?

This shot is a rule of thirds shot, and everything is balanced. Although there focusing more on the

people in pool than they are on the elements around them.

4.What message could the photograph be trying to convey? 

This image could be trying to persuade people to take a holiday at this destination and showing

them how fun you can have there.

5.Do you notice anything striking about the shot?

On the trains, there was no doors so this is really dangerous as loads of accidents could be caused,

the windows are also open so the gap is a lot bigger for people to fall or hurt themselves.

6.Do you think consent was needed from the subjects?

For the minority of the people in the photo, they are mostly young people in the pool. For them to

take this photograph and put it online and also just to take the image they would need parents

consent/parents permission to be taken the photographs of their child. However in the time that

this photograph was taken people didn't think of asking for permission to take photos of anybody

in the surroundings.

7.What is the viewpoint?

The viewpoint has been shot at eye level.

8.If you were to produce this shot what would you do differently?

I would try and get more elements of the surroundings in the shot, i'd take the image in a

different angle so that you could see a lot more of the holiday destination.