PLANNING:
Write a specification that provides 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?
3 words: friendship, youth, together
A sentence: I am going to show the love a group of friends have for each other and their youth.
A paragraph: My main focus will be taking candid shots of my friends during some of the times we spend together on a regular basis, attempting to capture some of the more memorable and timeless moments on camera. Hopefully I will be able to portray the strong platonic love within the group as well as possibly showcase how fleeting youth is and how we are just trying to make the most of it. I may choose to take some more posed images and therefore be able to capture some of the less-than-happy times as well (e.g. arguments, falling out, mental health issues) to properly showcase all the highs and lows of a teen friendship group.
NARRATIVE:
How will you tell your story?
Images > new photographic responses, photoshoots in a few diff. locations, candid shots from everyday meet-ups
Archives > old photos from our phones
Texts > notes passed in class, old bus tickets, quotes, poems
AUDIENCE:
Who is it for?
- teens/younger people
- my own friends/people featured in the images
- myself
- no particular social demographic, as the language of love and friendship is universal and does not need much explanation to be clearly understood
AESTHETIC CONCEPT:
What is it going to look like?
Currently I am planning on keeping all of the images in black and white, to add to the sense of timelessness and how this particular platonic love story has happened all throughout time and isn’t anything new. I am also planning on editing the images with overlays of handwritten quotes, possibly from from my friends but it may also be my own handwriting, depending on how much time I have, as well as doodles, markers, general scribbles and possibly editing the images to make it look more like photographic film (borders, fading out, etc).
An example of the sort of style/aesthetic I am aiming for is shown and linked below, from a previous student’s photobook work.
