Thanksgiving Narrative

Before I started this project I had no idea what I was going to do. When I realized I’d have Thanksgiving break to work on it I came up with the idea of doing a narrative of my families Thanksgiving dinner. Every year my family travels to Indiana to celebrate Thanksgiving at my grandmas. There is always lots of delicious food and lots of people around. I decided to document this through taking pictures. I then had many different ideas of what I could do with the pictures. The first idea was a collage. Another idea was a slideshow with music. I was also thinking about showing it in the perspective of the food looking really good at first and then slowly fading the pictures out to show when you get sick of so much food and just want to take a nap. I could have also just simply shown the pictures in an order that tells a story (the food being prepared, the food being ready and the food after it has been picked through.) In the end I just started adding all of my pictures into a photoshop document and the end result ended up being a collage. I ordered the pictures in a sort of circle around the middle picture of the turkey, since that is what Thanksgiving dinners usually center around. I have pictures from when the food is being prepared, when its ready and after its been eaten. To make my collage more appealing I added shadows to all the pictures to make them stand out. In the end I really like the direction my project took. I had not imagined it could have turned out like this.