work diary- 8

what I plan to do-
Today I plan to focus my shoot around 'mental illness' for this I'm using Leah dot Wilsh as my model on a location shoot. for this shoot it is essential I have a tripod or my photo will be unachievable.
this painting has inspired my shoot

What I hope to achieve: I want my picture to convey mental illness/the idea of having a split personality. I am going to take one in focus picture centred then lower the shutter speed and get moving pictures around the centre one to create the 'ghostly effect'. On photoshop I will then layer the individual pictures on top of each other and use the eraser to rub out the main picture to reveal the blurred pictures.

What I actually achieved:

Overall I am pleased with the outcome of this shoot and the final image that I produced as it's what I wanted. I think I could have took a bit more time and care rubbing out around the moving pictures as I think it would look better if it wasn't lighter around them (as you can see to the left). I could have also took the placing to the blurred pictures into more consideration as the left ones blend in to each other. 

What I plan to next: 

I think I will redo this shoot making the changes to make it look better and perhaps do it some different locations too. 

Inspiration for change in direction of personal project

Work Record > shoot 7

what I plan to do:
I Plan to do a studio shoot today using Lydia as my model to show the issues surrounding body image in teenage girls and the strive for 'perfection'. I will need dim dark lighting in the studio.

What I hope to achieve: 
I hope that my pictures are slightly shocking to gain the audiences attention and I want to show a good use of lighting to highlight certain areas on my pictures.

What I actually achieved? 

What I plan to do next:
Im going to leave this topic for now and move on to another one, I think I might try and portray the issue of mental illness using the multiple flash technique as I need to incorporate some techniques in to my project and I think this one would work well with my theme.

Work Record- shoot 6

What I plan to do:

I want to do a location shoot in Stortford then come back in to college to edit my photos, I need to make sure my model is also okay and available to do this.
I want to recreate this photo and use it for inspiration in my shoot.

I'm then going to go on to edit the photos and show underage/binge drinking in a negative light then put a spin on it and advertise underage people drinking in a controversial positive light. For this I will have my model dress up in school uniform.

What I hope to achieve: 
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What I actually achieved? 
my idea changed when I got down to the shoot as I could not get a school uniform, instead I decided to focus my shoot around smoking and tried to show it in a negative and positive light.
here are some of the pictures that I took:

What I plan to do next?

I am going to take a slight different direction than my original topic of marketing and focus on 'issues' for example mental, physical, smoking, alcohol etc. I think refining my original project proposal will enable be to produce better pictures as I've been finding it difficult having such a broad spectrum of things to choose from.

PLAN.......................

    I plan to develop my project by shooting controversial advertisements for example trying to promote the use of drugs and excessive amounts of alcohol. I want to do this on a location shoot and make it look realistically like teenage drinking.

also want to do a video/animation- for this I was thinking of recreating the cadburys 'eyebrow' advert. 

best photos so far and evaluation.

I think that to improve on these photos, I should try and show my personal project more clearly in my photos as it’s not always obvious. I also need to plan my shoots in depth before the lesson as a lot of them are spur of the moment ideas so if I planned them I am more likely to get better quality pictures that I am happy with. I think I get better pictures on location shoots which I have organized beforehand for example when I went to the cricket shed.