The final day consisted of 2 main activities. The first one was that we brought in 6 photos that we though had a narrative and told a story about something. Secondly we were asked to create an image that looked like impossible trick photography but without the use of software or photoshop.
Reflecting:
With both tasks I got on quite well. The first task was quite tedious for me as my 6 images were a story about myself, and I could not find a way to conclude it within one photograph. The second task however went very well as my idea straight away came to me when given the task, meaning less time was required in order to complete it. I feel that the first task didn't achieve much for me, other than the fact that it made me realise how poor my work of photograph narratives was. Although I made an attempt. I could easily tell that this was not my area of art and design. With the second task however I feel I achieved much more as the photo which apparently showed me levitating above the O2 drew much attraction from my peers. Leading on from this, the feedback of my photo story task was very critical from my peers, which further discouraged me from wanting to go into LBM. When it came to the second task many peers said it was the most interesting image they had seen, however my facial expression which was meant to show my fear of heights did not come out clearly due to lighting issues, and because of this it came under heavy fire by my group that I had been discussing with. From the overall tasks I learnt that photographs or any lens based media must have a very clear narrative and reasoning behind why those images exist, otherwise it will confuse people or even come ope to more criticism than it might have originally received. In addition, I beilive that this problem could help improve future pieces of work by ensuring I out more thought into my ideas first, so that the work can speak for itself and I don't have to do much or no explaining to my audience.
Analysing:
When analysing both tasks, the first task I believe was successful in the sense that I managed to put across a story about myself in a very chronological way, showing both a young self and my current self. With the photo creation task I found it successful as it created a real sense of wonder among the class. Also the way it was shot from my phone, had purposely included the corner of the round windows of the building. Because of this the effect on my viewers was greater as it made it look as if a student had apparently seen the feat and rushed to picture it in that moment of time.
I was not happy with the fact that the photo I created was not clear on the features of my body. This was because of the sun shining through the window, which caused the cutout image of myself to look like a silhouette on camera without any details of my body and also the expressions on my face showing. I found the first task difficult out of the whole day due to not knowing how to make my narrative very clear. Overall the photo creation was very easy, as all I had to do was take a picture of myself, shrink it to a very small (1cm high) size and stick it on the window after cutting my exact body shape out. All that was needed after this was to take a photo and print it.
Time management:
Looking back at the day overall, I did not have any problems with time as all the tasks were completed within the time frame that was given to me. If I had to pick one issue I had relating to time it would be the fact that the computers took extremely long to log into, which made the process of printing much slower. From this I found that I could improve my time planning methods by perhaps printing elsewhere as the university computers would always be taken and logged into by other students doing thier work, in which having my own computer or just printing work from a USB would be much better of wanting to save time. 
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