Planning – Archive images

SHOOT 1 – 1st series of Archive Footage

CONCEPT: For this first series of archive footage I am going to look through the photo albums from the Jersey Mini Club. Each year there is an album of photos from events and shows that the club went to. My grandad is in a lot of those albums so I am going to look for images of him with trophies, with his car and with his friends.

WHEN/WHERE: On the Mini Club Jersey Website.

HOW/EQUIPMENT: Access to a laptop and the internet

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SHOOT 2 – The garage and memories

CONCEPT: Take some images of his garage where he kept his mini highlighting details and his tools. Also the spare room where there are trophies and stuff he won. I plan to get eide establishing shots as well as ‘macro’ shots of individual details which have significance.

WHEN/WHERE: In the garage at my Nan’s house as this is where he kept the mini.

HOW/EQUIPMENT: I will set up my SL60W light with a softbox because is is quite dark in the garage. I will put it off to the side of the work bench and point it down onto the desk as this will cause some nice shadows. I will use my Sony a73 with a 70-200 or 50mm 1.8 for the details to isolate the subjects and a 35mm for widershots.

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SHOOT 3 – My Nan at the house

CONCEPT: I want to capture the details around the house where he lived, and my Nan who still lives there. I plan to get both candid and environmental portraits of my nan in her house, reading the paper, watching TV. Also the chair where my Grandad use to sit.

WHEN/WHERE: In my Nan’s house during the day so I can use natural light in the house to take the photos. When covid rules relax more.

HOW/EQUIPMENT: I am going to use my Sony A73 with my 35mm lens to get the wider interior shots of the house and of my Nan. For the details I will use either the 50mm or the 70-200mm zoom lens to really isolate the the details I am capturing. I want to use window light for most the interior shots of the house and not use the ceiling lights as they are a different colour and make the photos look really dingy and colour contrast with the cool window light.

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SHOOT 4 – Me and my Mini

CONCEPT: At the end of November I bought my own mini. I want to get some photo’s, some taken by a friends and some self portraits. I am looking to get both candid and environmental portraits of me working on the car and driving it. For environmental images I want some posed shots of me in my grandad’s old mini club jumpers sitting on the car or next to it. I also have an old steering wheel which was my grandad’s so i could also be holding that in the photos.

WHEN/WHERE: Location 1. – In the garage working on the car. Location 2. –The 5 mile road, L’etack, Le Pulant driving the car and posing next to the car.

HOW/EQUIPMENT: I will do a mixture of self portraits and some photos taken by James Rouault. I will use my Sony a73 on a tripod with a 24-70 for the self portraits as it is makes things easier to take the photos myself.

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