Beginning this slideshow presentation was fairly difficult. Coming up with a main idea was the most crucial aspect of this assignment, and overall I think I did an okay job, but once I saw my final product I was disappointed in how mundane it seemed. One thing that I would definitely change would be the music, I feel like having just the piano music without the lyrics would be a better alternative. It was also recommended in the class critique that I sequence the photos of doors in a more organized fashion. I was unsure of how I wanted to order them, and I went with small categories, like grouping fairly plain doors together then getting progressively more interesting and cluttered. The audience, however, would probably be more in tune if the doors went by composition, from doors to the left of the picture plain, to those in the middle, to those on the right. Placing the doors on the same horizon line would also be beneficial.
I do like this typology of the front doors, and how they reflect the personality of the house and its owners, but I feel that it would work better if it were presented differently. Slideshows are cool and all, but seeing door after door after door could make them lose their charm...as they ended up doing. I would prefer presenting them all at once, like the groups of photos below by Jeff Brouws and Julia Baum. A grid would still present the idea of unity and uniqueness, without the three minutes of doors, doors, doors. This may show up in a future website, who knows.
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