Photoshoot 1

• Who– I will be focusing on my mum to begin with. I will need to produce portrait photographs of her as the book will be mainly about her.
• Where– as I wont be able to have a professional studio, where this would be ideal for this kind of portraits, i will have to photograph at home against a plain background.
• When– the best would be to do this near a window to get natural lighting, therefore during daytime, maybe during golden hour, so early in the morning or just before the sunset I could use the lighting to my advantage as it would be the strongest.
• How– using the digital camera the setting would depend on the lighting, however these would be standard portraits where I will take them straight on from the subject.
• Why– so I can show who the book is about as well as be able to distort the images later on and play around with sowing, cutting and collaging them. these photographs therefore have to be quite plain in backroad so it doesn’t clash with the alterations, similar to Jessa Fairbrothers’ work, the portraits she produced of her mother.

Photoshoot 2

• what- items that are personal belongings to my mum and to me, these would be items from my childhood like a teddy or toys. The items I would use need to be not only personal but hold meaning behind them, this for example being a wrist band of the day I was born or the wrist bant of my mum when she was born.
• where- in the school studio, so I can access professional equipment, especially the backdrop which i used at the beginning of still life module. I will also have access to different light like a diffused one or sharper lighting which i have more freedom personalising
• When- since this is going to be done in the studio with artificial light, the time of day doesn’t influence how the photographs will turn out. But since its the schools studio I will have to during the school hours.
• how- I will use the backdrop available in school as well as using a tripod to station my camera, this will ensure the photographs to come out to their best quality. Since they are stationary objects and I’m using a tripod, I could lower the shutter speed, but the settings in the digital camera will depend on the lighting.
• why- so I can show my mums past as well as mine in a different form then just old images. I believe items hold so much meaning behind them therefore it is a necessity to use them for this project.

Photoshoot 3

• Who- me, I will need to set up a camera on a tripod to photographs myself in a similar style to the portraits of my mum
• where- using the school studio, during school hours
• how- using tools ill have access to like a tripod, a lead so i can press when the camera will take the photograph, lights like diffused light and straight light, mainly white like. This would be done against the white background.
• why-so I can make a visual link between me and my mum, when these are compared next to each other it will be easier to see similarities between us as well as the differences. these images can also be used to alter them like planed with the first photoshoot. techniques like sawing, using bleach, burning, or other types of distortion that can be done physically.

Other photoshoot ideas

I can start introducing landscapes that show the important places that both me and my mum grew up in. this could be done by digitally distorting the images or editiing in a way where the backroud can be rrepresenting these places.

Overall with the photoshoots I have planned to show the story and narrative of the book. I want to produce as many outcomes as possible that are different to each other. This being landscapes, still life and portraits. I want to dive into each of those genres and alter them manually through different techniques. I hope the outcomes have a certain theme and I will have a lot of freedom to experiment with my images.