This thesis titled - Hostel room: Different strokes for different folks: Content photography project of IIT Hostel room by Prakash Kumar has been approved for the degree of Master of Design from IIT Hyderabad. This is to certify that the work titled “Hostel room: Different strokes for different folks” is a good faith thesis work by Prakash Kumar under my supervision for his/her M. Seema Krishnakumar for their support, expertise and time to help us with documenting "Hostel" Room".
People create 3D room structures in software to see how it will look in real life. I was inspired by this and tried to create a miniature IIT Hyderabad hotel room through the medium of photography. When we take the roof off the hostel room and go beyond what it looks like.
The result is a photo exhibition where I show the recreation of the hostel room in small type and study the atmosphere and environment of the rooms.
Introduction
The discussion made me realize that photography is the right medium, and it will do justice to the project. Because photography is a pictorial language, which is the latest version of the oldest version of graphic communication, unlike spoken or written words, it is a form of communication that can be understood internationally. It, it gave me the added meaning and added the purpose of a photo and added a photographer.
Documentary photography is supposed to either educate people or empower them to make the right decisions. I wanted to click the whole picture of the room as much as possible, but there were a lot of distractions while taking pictures and the quality of the pictures was not good. At first, I shot the whole room with the GoPro because it's wide-angle.
I mentioned two photographers, Olafur Eliasson and Menna Aden. They do the same type of photography and they do such a good job there that I was fascinated by the work.
Methodology
Work of Olafur Eliasson
Work of Menno Aden
A Fine-art photographer captures an unreal perspective
Menno Aden is enthusiastic about the influence of architecture and design on the people who live there and those people. But their recent projects, inspired by room portraits, emerged from a photographic food diary, in which they stood on the chair and captured their food by pointing their camera downwards. In an early attempt at home, Eden moved the chair around a room, took lots of photos, and then tried to stitch them together in Adobe Photoshop.
He quickly realized that this was not an easy process. “Different angles and lens distortions made it impossible to fit individual images together,” he says. So they started extracting and composing the center frames of each image, following a process that they said took "several days." However rigorous, the realization of his first room. In selected rooms, Eden first created colors and interior elements, and then grids and homogeneity that could serve as composite material.
A test shot using a wide-angle lens on the camera on your tripod helps it fully visualize; Then she begins a more comprehensive shoot, often with the help of an assistant. Using a monopod - Or, in high-ceilinged locations, a tripod with a boom arm - behind the roof nets move the camera around the room and use a remote trigger for the fire. He made slices of about 150 photos and composed the final image, on the computer.
Aden says: "The room will be answered with the question of people living there. Without people, furniture begins to say what kind of person lives in that place."
Room with a View (From Above)
34;This is because everything on the floor, such as furniture, is oriented in two dimensions," Aden explained. In case a room intrigues me, I make adjustments to where I will place the camera. and check the height and material of the roof, " Aden composed. From there, the procedure begins with Aden taking wide-angle photographs to get a diagram of the room.
We can see the true nature of the area - the interrelationship between the base and the object in terms of proportion. We can quickly identify the dimension of the room and the balance of the object. In architecture, the top views are also the part of the object above the level (section) is omitted to reveal what lies beyond.
Floor plans can usually eliminate the roof and upper part of the walls. contacted for an internal design project, a floor plan is ideal as a starting point. Roof plans are orthographic estimates, but they are not cross-sections because the viewing plane is outside the object. When shooting from a top view, I was faced with one problem: from the height it covers half the room.
The height of the room is small so that when placing the camera on top, it covers half of the room in height. So as I mentioned before the project is about studying and capturing the environment and mood of the hostel room through photography and to identify the behavior and pattern of different people living in the same kind of space. Before the box idea, I'm exploring with the flat top view photo.
I also worked with different lighting in the room to show the atmosphere and the activities going on in the place. First, I plan to capture the events of the person in the room, as well as what he is doing in the room.
Exploration 1
Exploration 2
Exploration 3
Exploration 1
Exploration 2
Exploration 3
Exploration 4
In this exploration, instead of making the light box, I made a slit on window panel for the natural light source. These concepts also did not work because too much light source comes from the crack of the window.
Exploration 5
In this concept, we raised the floor panel a bit to focus on the person belonging to the room. We decided to separate all panels because I want to show each side of the room as an individual frame. All the panel of the room tells the story of that person belonging to that room.
Instead of placing a light source on the side of the window, I placed the source below the base panel. The reason for placing the light below the base is that it will spread across the room panel, but it is creating a patch of Sharpe light below all the sidewall panels and the top view image panel is darker than one panel other. It also disturbs the other boxes because the lights come through the panel gaps and the other boxes are visible because of that light when we show it in the dark room.
Exploration 6
Exploration 7
In this research, I want to show that there is an empty box from the outside and one quote or line written on top of the box that explains the residential nature of the person who belongs to that room. Let's explain them, which will explain why I took up this project, as I said in the first point, what physical facilities the hostel offered. After taking some photos of the hostel rooms, I analyzed that many facilities are not enough for the students to stay in the hostel.
In the second point I mentioned that I want to study and capture the atmosphere and environment of the hostel room through photography. I captured the room environment with the person in the center of the room shot from above. In the room pictures, you can see that many students keep their rooms well organized and clean.
There is another category of students who do not care about their room and the room environment. In this project, I analyzed one more thing, which is the layout of the space, furniture and types of equipment. Some students put the bed on the side of the window and the table on both sides of the wall, some of them put the bed and the table on both sides of the wall, and some of them put the bed in the middle and the table on the side of the window as their convenience.
Few students keep the bed on the window side because the bed on the window side gives them more space in the room. Some of them place the bed and the desk on either side of the wall because they don't want any disturbance from the outside. This project was also done to identify the pattern and behavior of student life living in the same space.
In IIITH hostel, every room has the same area and same dimension, but students' way of living is almost different in the hostel. In this project my study part is To study and capture the mood and environment of the hostel room and to identify how the same room can be seen in a different perspective and understand the pattern and behavior of students living in the same kind. I learn how light can be used in photography and how lighting can change the mood and mood of the room environment, how to do photo manipulation, learned to handle different material.
I also have many problems while doing this project, I planned to capture half of the boys hostel room and half of the girl hostel rooms, I want to compare the lifestyle of girls and boys, but I didn't get permission from the authority of the hotel.
