PLANNING: Write a specification that provide an interpretation and plan of how you intend to explore A Love Story. This must include at least 3 photoshoots you will be doing in the next 2-3 weeks (these could include photo-assignments). How do you want your images to look and feel like? Include visual references to artists/photographers in terms of style, approach, intentions, aesthetics concept and outcome. Remember the final outcome is a 16 page photo-zine so you will need to edit a final series of 12-16 images that sequenced together as a set forms a narrative that visualises your love story.
STORY: What is your love story?
Describe in:
- 3 words
- A love story
- A sentence
- Sequence of photographs of my neighbours life together.
- A paragraph
- Love story of my neighbours. Starts with their wedding photos. From archives, photos that already exist. Photographing objects of meaning to their relationship. This includes rings, cufflinks, wedding shoes, wedding cake toppers and bracelet given to bride on wedding day. Next stage of their life, their home and family. Using the front door of their house, showing what they have achieved together and family portrait showing the product of their love and the love they now have for their children as well as each other.
NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?
- Images > new photographic responses, photo-shoots
- Archives > old photos from family albums, iPhone
- Texts > letters, documents, poems, text messages
AUDIENCE: Who is it for?
Most image makers tend to overlook the experience of the viewer. Considering who your audience is and how they may engage with your photo-zine is important factor when you are designing/ making it.
- Reflect and comment on this in your specification (age group, demographic, social/ cultural background etc.
RECORDING: Practice making portraits of two people and experiment with different lighting setups in the photographic studio.
- Lighting: Different lighting set-ups
- Recording: Headshots, half-body, full-body,
- Moods: Explore different moods, expressions, angles, framing.
EDITING > SEQUENCING: Upload and process images from both studio photo-shoots and your own shoots in relation to PHOTO-ASSIGNMENT: A Love Story using Lightroom. Make a rough edit of 8–10 images, both colour and b&w and annotate from each shoot and publish on the blog as work progresses.
- Produce a blog post where you evaluate your first sequence of images, reflect on what story you are trying to communicate and how you can improve and develop your narrative.
- Edit 20-30 images down to an ordered series of 10-15 images.
- Think about start, middle and end images.
- Think about your theme or story.
- Think about visual relationship between images and their juxtaposition e.g colour, shapes, subject, repetition, landscape, portrait, object etc.
- What happens or changes over the series of images?
- Are you using your best images?