Wednesday, 7 May 2008

New project - Superhero's

Finally getting round to working on my blog, which I will be updating on a much regular basis from now on.
Working on a new project for term 3 of my 2nd year, in which I've decided to do something similar to my Disney shoot, but hopefully boosting production quality considerably.
My brief is as follows:


The project is to produce a series of fashion photographs based on popular superhero’s, with the market of a fashion magazine such as Dazed & Confused in mind.

Models will be dressed with everyday clothing, along with special props (such as masks) that will identify them as portraying a superhero. The superhero’s will be shot individually, and have one photo shoot together in order to create a front cover for a mini-magazine that I will produce.

Darker personality traits will be drawn out of what we know of the superheros, to depict a scenario where they are acting to a negative extreme suggested by their character. The character’s to be portrayed are Superman, Catwoman, Spiderman, Supergirl and Wolverine.

The work will be influenced firstly by comic books in which the characters come from; the extreme representations of scenarios from the work of David LaChapelle; and the darker themed scenarios often seem in the work of Annie Leibovitz.

Photographs will have varied settings for each photo shoot and some will require shooting people outside at night, as well as indoor scenarios. The work will be done using a medium format camera (most likely 5x4) to strengthen the quality of the images, and to give greater potential for the work to be used in other markets such as exhibitions or advertising.

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