Latest Plan for Next Shoot

New Plan for Panel 3

Panel 1 and so far Panel 2

Identifying Each Series of Work - Panel 1

This is identifying each series of work, and working out there relevance in my folio.

1. For the first circled group this uses apeture and focus to show the fight of the depression. The shaking of the face shows how the mind can go crazy from depression.

2. The next series of photos are close ups of the face. These pictures show expression of how one can act with a crazy mind. The strong shadows show darkness. The awkwardness of the face represents the mind. 

3. The next 4 photos shows the black blanket as symbolism of the pain and depression, and how its waying him down. 

4. The last photos show clenched fists which represent the punching, and the feeling of blood pumping (veins) and feeling under pressure. 

Latest Shoots, Another Look At Duane Michals

These are my latest photos looking at Duane Michals, these are for my panel one, replacing photos on there that were boring, I LOVE these photos, and are my favourite so far. I found inspiration from Duane Michals ''Fallen Angel Shoot.'' I liked the idea of having something drape over Logan, like this angel is draping over the person. 

Walead Beshty - Research

Walead Beshty is an London born photographer but is based in Los Angeles.

Beshty earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College, then went on to get a Master of Fine Arts at Yale. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 2004 which was successful.

I am looking at his work, ''The Phenomenogy of Shopping and Dead Malls'' which is situated at Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, NY. 

I really like how these are so weird and unusual and I think the concept of putting the body in awkward situations kind of fits in with the rest of my work. I want to try this with Logan but put him under the blanket, to still keep the dark theme coming through. I tried to take some like on my latest post, but I didn't like the look if them, so I am going to try it again using different lighting and in a different setting. 

Planning My Next Shoot - Walead Beshty

This is the plan for my next shoot. I'm looking at Walead Beshty who uses models with thier faces and bodies places sunkin in into objects. As I am using the blanket for a prop, I was thinking about trying this concept with Logan and the blanket. 

Panel 1 FINISHED!

This is my final choice for panel 1.

Plan for Next Shoot

This is the plan for my next shoot, using Duane Michals and Kelly Nipper as artist models. I want to use sequences and series as a techinique in the photographs. I want this to be at the bottom of my panel 1. I've tried to take these before and it was becoming to hard to edit in photo shop, so I'm trying again. This was my first attempt, but I've struggled to take away the harsh lines.

New Photos Taken

These photos are the latest of what I have taken, I looked at Eileen Cowan and her use of positive and negative space, and I think for my concept the negative space works perfectly and suits.This also relates to Anne Nobles, 'Rubys Room' artwork. She uses people and their faces and shows a lot of texture through food and liquid.

Im next going to go back to the sequences idea and I need to relate this back to my concept.

My panel 1 is 3/4 finished, well I have enough content to cover  the lot of panel 1, but I just need to work on sizing and composition of my images on my board. Also to use the sequence idea on my first panel mean I can develop it further through my folio.

These are the proof sheets from this shoot. 

Plan for Panel 1

This is my plan so far for panel 1 of my folio. I've decided to develop the technique of sequences and use Duane Michals as a strong artist model. I've used these first shots to show the anger and frustration, and I'm going to develop this further with the sequencing technique. 

I also decided that I didn't want to use black and white as thoughout all photos on my folio as I personally find it boring and unappealing, so after talking to Mrs Clemence I have decided to use sepia and instagram style filters and possibly ending up in full color by the end of the folio. This isn't my final decision on this as I dont want my photos to look childish and tacky, so I'm still deciding on this one. 

My next shots I want to take will be close ups on Logans face and head, with him shaking his hair around and looking angry, I'm thinking of possibly using tears in this picture. I'm going to try with shutter speed and play around with the focus most likely in the dark room. I want to develop these shots and have four-six photos cover across the middle-bottom of panel 1. 

Im unsure of what I want to put in the gap between these photos and the previous photos i've taken, but I'm sure after taking,  editing and putting the next shot on my first panel, then I will have some inspiration of what to put there. 

Research: Cinematography

Cinematography is the art of camerawork, moving picture and photography in filmmaking. A cinematographer is the directer of photography and film. This role is used to make movies, documentrys, tv programmes etc.

The main cinematographer or sometimes called the director of photography, works with the film's direction to capture the story in a way that will captivate the movie audience and make people want to watch the movie. Cinematographer will work with the director decide which lighting, camera angles and other film techniques to use that will portray the right effect in which the movie viewers will be interested and also, they choose which of these techniques match the mood of the scene or film.  

Conrad L. Hall has been a cinematographer for many movies including American Beauty 1999 and Road to Perdition 2002. He has won many awards such as an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and has been recognised as one of the only known cinematographers around.

He has been the director of film for the following movies:

American Beauty 1999

A Civil Action 1998

Road to Perdition 2002

Source : http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/cinematographer1.htm