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Personal Study – Planning

January 17, 2022 Michael K 1 Comment

Story

Expose, Masculinity, Identity

Hone in on the identity of a rugby player a part of a team and explore more intimate sides of his life overall telling the story of how identity shifts and how true personality is hard to find.

Begins with introducing a rugby team and sets the scene in terms of the aesthetic qualities of the individuals that belong to this community. The narrative then begins to explore one person in this community acting as a part of this setting. After the introduction of this character the story begins to reveal more about this character such as what car he drives, where he lives, and his other interests. It then begins to tell the story about an emotional side of the character. This will begin by delving into the idea of a façade that the character has adopted. It will break into ideas of a hidden sadness and forced masculinity. The story will conclude with this façade being emphasised as the character is seen back in the original setting.

The story will be told through sequentially ordered and aesthetically thought out images along with the addition of captions and an essay that responds to a question this narrative poses.

Shoot 1:

What – Rugby team, individual player as pert of a team environment

Where – Jersey Reds Rugby Club

Why – To introduce the main subject of the project and give vewier insight into his identity as a part of a rugby team

How – Close focus, high detail, fast shutter speed

When – at a evening training session

Shoot 2 :

What – Shoot the subject in a more intimate way to explore his individual identity away from other people. Shoot his house, his car, his family etc

When – During the whole day, a Sunday where he is at home

How – interrogate the subject by his use of central framing and and neutrally arranged compositions. crisp detail while laying down a blanket of warm hues used to accentuate gestural echoes, emotion, plays of light and texture.

Why – It then begins to tell the story about an emotional side of the character. This will begin by delving into the idea of a façade that the character has adopted.

Where – Subject house

Shoot 3

What – The subject back in a social environment at the pub with his teammates

When – during a social event

Why – façade being emphasised as the character is seen back in the original setting.

Where – at a local pub

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Personal Project – Photoshoot Plans

December 16, 2021 Matthew B 1 Comment

Shoot 1 – Long Exposure

I plan to take long exposure photos of the bay at high tide, I will have to do this in the evening, as it is too bright in the day and the images will be overexposed, as the I’m using two gradual filters. 1 right way up and 1 upside down to create a homemade ND filter. I will also use a tripod to create a sharp image, to reduce camera shake, and I will use a 2 second delay to give the camera enough time to stabilise after I press the shutter release button.

Shoot 2 – Drone

I will use my drone (DJI Mini 2) to take aerial photos of the bay, the Heritage site, the islet, the pontoon, and the boats/jet skis. This lets the viewer see a angle of the bay that they have never seen before. I can also go up on top of the headland, which gives me access to a wider overall angle of the bay.

Shoot 3 – Underwater

I will also create a set of underwater photographs of people jumping off the pontoon. To achieve the summer look it must be sunny. This will also make the underwater section more clears as the sun is lighting it up. I will use a GoPro and an attachable underwater dome. This allows me to create a half above water and half under water shot. When in the water i can also take photos of the headland around the bay, as the angle offers a unique perspective.

Shoot 4 – Minimalism/Objects

For this shoot I will collect items/objects from the beach and take them to a makeshift studio and photograph them. I will use a black background and 1 light source to create some interesting photos. I can also use these photos to experiment with some photo manipulation and recreate an alive oyster in Photoshop.

Shoot 5 – Day Long Exposure / Shots

I will go down to Boulay Bay when it is high tide in the day time and attempt to take long exposure photos of the waterfall, the water, and water splashing off of the rocks. I’ll need a tripod and ND filters. I have taken some photos for another project, which I feel would fit in very well with this project

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Community NFT – Storyboard and Planning

November 3, 2021 Sophie M 1 Comment

What is a storyboard?

A storyboard is a visual outline for the video you are planning to make, they are usually hand drawn, however in recent times storyboards have been created digitally in computer software. The format of a storyboard is usually chronological, helping the creators visualise the video before filming begins. Storyboards also include notes about what is meant to happen in the video, like little captions describing the process from beginning to end. A completed storyboard may look similar to a comic strip, it is like a visual script for the production team to fully plan how they want the video to look. Click here for more on storyboards.

Storyboard Examples;

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Our Storyboard;

Our group created the storyboard below to help us plan how we wanted our video shoot to go, describing the different shots and how we imagined them playing out on screen. Firstly, we started with the simple title of ‘Women’ for our NFT film – however, later in the process we changed out idea to the title ‘WomanKind’; a sort of play on words to mankind while also hinting at the stereotypes of women needing to be sweet and innocent, in other words ‘kind’. Our opening shot is planned to be of a wooden door, large and imposing, taking up the entire frame. We plan on having someone open the door from the other side to lead the camera into the first room, we also aim to edit this first sequence with a black and white filter to represent the timeline it portrays. We plan for our second scene to show a woman, dressed in typical early 1900’s attire with an apron, whisking something in a bowl walking through her kitchen. We will set the camera on a tri-pod in the centre of the room and follow the woman as she moves, before seeing her stop to put on a ‘Votes for Women’ protest sash. We want the satire of the ‘innocent housewife’ to juxtapose with her later fierce and strong mood as she walks off through a different door on the other side of the room. Our third and forth scenes will follow the same filming format, however in the second our model will pick up a ‘Women’s Rights’ sign before leaving, wearing a 60’s/70’s inspired dress and edited with a dull saturation (colour appearing as time moves on, and more rights for women are put in place). Our last shot is planned to show our model in a idealistic world of freedom, walking into frame and looking at herself in a mirror, feeling confident within her femininity and loving herself without it needing to be sexualised for the male gaze. We plan for our model to look straight at the camera lens and smile before leaving through a final door into a world where she can feel confident and comfortable.

Video Shoot Planning

Who – The model we are using for this video shoot is the same woman we had in our initial photoshoot images. Caitlin has a timeless look about her, she is also an actress who is comfortable in front of the camera and has confidence in portraying the different emotions we want to convey; eg, sadness, anxiety, excitement, happiness.

Where – We plan on using one of our group member’s grandmother’s home for our video shoot due to its vast space, rooms, doorways and availability for use. The house we aim to film in is also decorated with similar regal furniture and wallpaper as the work of Lissa Rivera, who is our main source of inspiration for the project.

When – We aim to conduct this video shoot on Thursday October 14th as the weather is meant to be bright and sunny, resulting in perfect natural lighting for the shots we want to film in the kitchen (a room with very big windows). Additionally, on this day we all have a free period last lesson which provides the perfect time to film before it gets too dark.

How – We are planning to film using my Canon camera and tri-pod so all the footage is in one place and it is easy to find for editing. We will attempt to create transitions between doorway to room – however if this is not possible in the space we are in, we have a plan B on how to film our video, using a simpler format.

Why – We want to create this video to shed light on the decades of struggle that women have gone through to get equal rights, we know that we are lucky enough to live on an island where equality is noticed and seen, for the most part, however we also realize there are many countries and areas where women do not have the same rights as men and still need to fight everyday for the privileges that should be theirs for free. We want to create a video showing a timeline of women’s rights activists during the different waves of feminism, connoting ideas of freedom and passion for what they believe in.

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