Clic Caernarfon Brief

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We have taken the titles of five Welsh films, or English language films that were filmed in Wales, listed below, for you to use as a theme for your images. You can interpret the titles in any way that you want to. You could use the title in a literal way, an ironic way, If you know what the film is about then you can use that for ideas, or you could do a play on words, it is completely up to you, interpret it as you will.


Y Lleill (The Others)

Streetlife

A Run for Your Money

How Green Was My Valley

Twin Town

For some extra inspiration…

…I have used a title from another Welsh film, Calon Gaeth (Small Country), and thought of some ways in which I would approach the title.

  • I could play on the idea of what a small country is, like getting a friend holding cards with facts showing what a small country Wales is, in several different settings, including a vast open space maybe, making it an ironic statement.
  • ‘Calon gaeth’ translates to addicted heart, so maybe I could photograph two of my friends embracing each other being in love, portray in the image them addicted to each other.
  • Use the idea of an addicted heart in another way to portray a person addicted to drugs or alcohol.
  • ‘Calon gaeth’ also translates to enslaved heart so you could photograph one of your friends being portrayed as a slave in some way, or I could use a symbol of Welsh Nation behind Caernarfon Castle walls, portraying an enslaved nation.
  • A loveheart sweet on the end of someones tongue about to be swallowed?

Before you start…

…brainstorm with your friends to get the best ideas possible. You can use one title as a theme for all 10 of your images or use several different titles. The images can be a set of images or stand alone as single images, it’s up to you.

You are welcome to use photoshop to manipulate your images, but it is by no means necessary. We understand that there will be people of varying levels of ability taking part so don’t be worried about your skills as photographers, the ideas that are portrayed in the images are just as important, but for the less experienced, here are a few pointers.

  • Before taking the image make sure that you have framed it properly, make sure that everything that is suppose to be in the image, is there.
  • Try and avoid pointing the camera directly into the sun, you will get a kind of silhouette effect or a burnt out sky (unless you are after that effect).
  • If you are photographing a landscape make sure that the horizon is parallel to the top and bottom of your image, unless you intended for the horizon to be crooked.
  • Finally, think before you take the image don’t just point and shoot at anything and everything.

Hand in…

… your ten best images at Oriel Dafydd Hardy on the CD that we will give you by 5 pm, or upload them on Clic Caernarfon’s Flickr Group or If you’re a member of facebook, you can upload your images to the Clic Caernarfon event on Facebook by 6 pm.

Name each image by the film title that it is portraying or hand in a piece of paper with the CD titling them.

If you wish to hand in your images directly off your memory card, someone will be here at Oriel Dafydd Hardy between 3 and 5 pm to accept them.

A short film…

…of the best images will be shown at the Maes on the Screen Machine between 2 pm-2.30 pm tomorrow, or if you miss it, the film will be posted on the bocs website and on youtube just search for Clic Caernarfon.

Have fun!!