For this exercise, I thought of telling a story whereby audiences’ misunderstanding involves the photographer. They were supposed to think that she had asked the male model to shoot nude photographs. Initially, I encountered problem in finding objects to represent this as I could not possibly get someone to pose nakedly. Thus, I went to the Internet to research more about our body parts’ characteristics and reach a conclusion of using the upper arm to represent the naked body. This has led to the usage of a closed up shoot of the upper arm. It is to be noted that when the photograph is placed vertically, the upper arm would resemble the body shape of a naked person. Thus people would misinterpret the story with a lady photographer requesting the male model to shoot nude photographs. Besides that, I had encountered problems in handling constrains like the perception concept which explains the dissimilarity in what we think we are seeing and what we are actually seeing. As an illustration of constrains encountered, for photograph 6 I had to decide on whether the male model should appear at the forefront (bigger scale) or the female photographer should appear at the forefront instead. Ultimately, I had chosen the former as this scene should focus more on his expression after being offered some incentives by the photographer. This would serve as an example of nonsymmetrical balance with the larger scale of the male model balancing the smaller scale photographer on the left. Thus, the proposed balance is more interesting to look at than symmetrical balance in general.

On top of this, I had faced difficulty in capturing the right expression as the expression I had in mind does not match that of what the male model has in mind. However, this problem was minor and resolved after several tries. I had also learnt that the picture frame has to capture all the essential elements/ parts of the model and exclude unnecessary stuff like chopped off leg of the photographer when the photograph was supposed to contain only the male model. Also, the viewfinder should be perceived as a frame instead of a key hole in order to take excellent photographs without focusing selectively and chopped off essential parts of the pictures. I had selected an uncomplicated background for this exercise as it will not steal attention from my subjects. Lastly, I discovered that not all photographs developer could develop photographs with the same color scheme as it appears on the camera and computers. According to the tutor, the difference in color could be due to the vendors not changing its printers’ ink cartridge. It could also be due to the changing of brightness of digital photographs by the developer to his perceived standardized brightness.

2. The photographer continues takingshoots while the male model pose (Model pose 2)

4. Thus the photographer shows the male model a photo requesting him to shoot that pose

6. Being rejected by the male model to take the desired photograph, the photographer attempt to entice him with money.


7. After considering, the male model agreed to take up the assignment and started to pose with a sleeveless shirt

9. Then the photographer zoom in and take photographs of the model's arm (90 degree pose)

10. Lastly, the story ends with a closed up shoot of the muscles of the upper arm which resembles the curvy body shape of a person both standing up or lying down. (This is also the photograph that the lady photographer showed the male model in the fourth scene)


Basically, the story strives to create a misunderstanding at the start where the audiences would misunderstand the photographer. They were supposed to think that she had asked the male model to shoot nude photographs. However, the photograph that the the lady showed the model is not nude photograph but a closed up shoot of the upper arm. The upper arm resembles the body shape of a naked person, thus people would misunderstood that the lady asked the male model to shoot nude photographs.