Mood-board / ideas:

 

• A girl in her room
• A friend
• What she gets up to
• behind the scenes
• what you do when your 18
• unfiltered
• untitled
• cinematic
• personal
• up close
• confronting
• revealing
• expressive
• dramatic

Above I have listed key words and phrases that I am going to explore throughout this photo shoot. Capturing a girl in her personal space, environment which reveals her inner world behind closed doors, creating this sense of new reality perhaps showing us a new world that we’re unfamiliar with, and is different compared to ours. I want to express union through how her world could be different compared to someone else like the viewer, this idea of getting up and close, confronting us showing us this new reality, shows us how people are united together expressing to us through new world and realities. I am going to capture her in unfiltered moments, expressing scenes that perhaps could be relatable or engaging to us as the viewer which leads us into her inner world. I am going to follow the phrase getting up close and personal, showing raw, emotional scenes which ultimately create unfiltered, confronting expressions.

Lighting:

I am going to capture photographs as the sun is setting so there is this natural light that is creating shadows, new formations of reflections which we typically wouldn’t notice. I want this to exaggerate and highlight new forms, as well as the subject, highlighting angles and tones. I am going to be capturing the photo from the same direction as the natural light that is shining into her bedroom which will express this cinematic, unfiltered feature.

Composition:

I am going to capture different poses, firstly focusing on environmental portraits. Capturing a series of portraits like this will express the subjects inner world and show us her reality forming unity. Then following David Hockney’s joiners technique I am going to create the same composition.

• fashion – contrasting colours that stand out and are clearly expressed within the photograph
• record players / records, albums
• dressing up
• books/magazines
• facial expressions / poses
• trying shoes/heels on
• music

This photo-shoot is going to be staged but unfiltered, showing you the true reality, behind the scenes of a girl in her bedroom getting ready, makeup, hobbies.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Inspiration:

These images above express reality, confronting views that are from behind the scenes within the subjects life, as we are shown through raw emotions and feelings. From portraits alone with a pose, or facial expression to the subject lying on a chair within their house with drink bottles near by, which expresses this engaging reality that closely relates to the subject we initially are drawn to in the subject. Although these are paintings I want to express the same effect but in a photograph. I going to do this by capturing unfiltered yet staged moments, choosing what they wear – from colours, outfits, and makeup, which will show the clear defining, definition of contrasting colour, that expressionist painters use within their loose brushstrokes. So expressionism has influenced me to capture people in unfiltered moments, with clear oulines and contrast, using bold colours and poses. I want it to be dramatic, expressing emotion.

These next photos show the next steps I want to focus on in a following photo shoot – which will show a series of images at different point within her (the subjects) life. So going out of her house to the world around her and how she fits within in. This expresses union as we see how she fits in with people alongside her, through what she wears, emotionally, through expressions and poses.