Cleveland Police Counter Terrorism

A Cleveland Police Counter Terrorism spokesperson came in to talk to both photography and film students about how suspicious we can look while out with the cameras and the way the police are trained to ask questions about who we are/what we are doing/why we are photographing and to maybe see the photographs, however they should not delete our photographs or ruin the film as it is against the law and they would be deleting evidence if they needed it.

The talk made me realise how suspicious photographing and filming can look and it maybe that the police officers are tired after a long shift and would not want to start an argument so we were asked to keep calm and explain who we are, our university and why/what we are photographing.

Faking It

Faking It: Radiographer to Fashion Photographer

This series of faking it shows a series of people who are taken from their jobs and have a week to learn about another job and pass a judging by experts in the field.

In this lesson we watched the episode in which a radiographer is converted into a fashion photographer and has to perform a photo shoot in-front of judges who decided which contestant in the shoot was faking being a photographer, he was convincing enough that the judges thought a real photographer was the faker.

It showed me that I need to have more confidence in myself as that's what the judges picked up on; that the faker was very confident whereas the real photographer who was thought to be faking was not very confident.