Evaluation

For my FMP I decided to create a programme all about Burton Albion, I originally began with several ideas such as creating a normal programme for the club and one to celebrate promotion, which at the point wasn't confirmed so I had to generate other ideas just in case the club didn't get promoted, which they did. After the club got promoted I decided to begin designing a programme celebrating the clubs promotion which came out really well. But a couple of days after completing this the league season ended and Burton Albion were confirmed as league champions so I decided to design a programme celebrating the clubs title success and to do this I decided to use the programme I got from the clubs last promotion to help me out.

During the project I managed to get two photo shoots done at the club. The first was the penultimate game of the season and the final home game, with the club already guaranteed promotion there was a party atmosphere the ground which all me to get even more brilliant photos. The second shoot I managed to do was about eight days later when the club came back to their home ground to celebrate winning the league title this was a brilliant shoot for me and really helped me to get even more photographs during this project. I would say at this point I probably already had enough for my programme, but with me doing a programme celebrating the clubs title success having images of the players celebrating the trophy and lifting it as well would have been a huge bonus for the programme and really helped the look of it as well.

Throughout most of the project I used a Canon 1DX and a 70-200m lens but during the trophy presentation I used the same lens but I used a Canon 5D Mark III as this was a last minute shoot and I wasn't able to get any equipment from college but this was probably too big of a lens to use at the players were quite close. I probably should have taken the 24-70mm lens.

Personally I would say that I didn't really run into any problems throughout the project the only problem that I had was the lack of opportunities for photo shoots due to the season almost being at an end. I managed to get to the final home game of the season and the trophy presentation.

I would say that with the photographs that I took Matt Bunn was a massive inspiration to my images as he captures some truly spectacular action shots which I did attempt throughout the project and I did get some to come off pretty well. Another would be John Potts the guy I worked with at Burton Albion his images of the matches are simply amazing his images are better than some in my research and I tried to use his style of photography in my shoots, I spoke to him to try and get as much advice as I could get from him to help me.

Overall I would say that I am really pleased with how everything came out, my final piece I was really pleased with for me it was the perfect image to use and I was really pleased with it. If I was to re-do the project I may have used a different company to publish my programme as the printing of my enlarged images wasn't very good at all it was out of focus but to people who know little or nothing about photography it was probably alright but to me it wasn't.