SHOOT PLAN

The point of my project is pointing out the smallest or most interesting characteristics of animation in individuals that would otherwise go unnoticed during one’s everyday interaction with other people. My plan for my photo shoots is to record different subjects when they talk walk and sit. The idea is to capture the mannerisms, gestures and facial expressions that a person makes while they interact with someone. The movements that people make are not consciously done. Instead, the movements a person makes are developed over time from mirroring people they are repetitively around and from self expression.

Following up on my first shoot, I devised a photo shoot that captured the movement of walking, talking and sitting. I set up my subject against a plain wall and asked them to speak about anything they liked. I made sure I engaged in the conversation to keep their movement fluid in terms of mannerisms and facial expressions. At the beginning of the shoot, getting my subject to speak and act naturally was hard because I wanted to capture their movement in its rawest form; the subliminal movements and characteristics everyone performs. I made sure I eased them into conversation to help them forget they were performing in front of a camera and to avoid forced movement or no movement at all. This was hard because of the nature of my concept and the shoot. By putting a camera in front of my subject it made them suddenly aware and conscious of their way of being and how they moved when interacting with someone. The same issue applied to getting my subject to walk and sit as the camera served as a reminder that I was recording their movement, which applied pressure of containing their natural state of being as they were aware of every movement they made that they usually wouldn’t be aware of. These issues eventually resided but watching someone conscious of their movement was as interesting as when they aren’t conscious of it.