Photo graphs

When planning a photoshoot it is very important to keep three key areas in mind; number one, your artistic vision; before you rush blindly into taking some photographs and calling it a day it is important to have a visualization of what you want your final product to look like, for me this was easy as I had already began venturing with the visual themes and aesthetics I want for my movie, this visual theme being a very relevant technological/internet theme. Branching off from the artistic vision another key area to keep in mind is you model/characters physicality; it is important to direct your model to move or act in a particular way to accurately portray the state of mind or story that your character would be telling  through their body language. Last but not least it is always vital that you have the correct equipment and or setting that you would need to fulfill your artistic vision and too aid your character physicality, this could range from anything such as having the correct props, costume, lighting and etc.

Follow Ochuko's board Photoshoot inspirations on Pinterest.  Above is someone is a pintrest board that I made to give me inspiration for my first photoshoot, I initially wanted to search for some images that focused on the darkside of the web/technology but after a few minutes of exploring I had stumbled across quite a lot of horror themes photography that seemed to be pressing on out of body experiences, dual personalities and demonic possessions, although there are rarely touched upon in my initial narrative I was inspired by them and had decided to tweak my narrative just to incorporate this type of photography into my project, in addition to this, out of body experiences, dual personalities and demonic possession are all very popular horror motifs which would allow  my final product to look and feel more authentic. 

 

Above are some of my favorite photographs from my first photoshoot, I will start of by saying things did not go quite according to plan nevertheless this photographs still came out decent and nothing a little Photoshop can't fix ( haha XD). Let me start of by relating the outcomes to my key features. 

Artistic vision 

The type of vision I had for this photoshoot was to present my main character in two different physicals states, state one being the state of an everyday teenage girl and state two being the state of a psychopathic turned suicidal killer, I had also planned to have an extra state to showcase my character during her transition of physical states.  

Model/Character physicality 

This is something that I had heavily focused on during my photoshoot, I wanted my model to tell  a story through her body language and this is something that she certainly did. Take the psychopathic photographs for example I had directed her to stand in that particular way and too hold the knife in the particular way in order to evoke some semblance of fear into my audience.  

Equipment 

I had used a Cannon EOS 600d to capture my photographs, the same  

 had used to film my footage, in addition to this  had used the 50mm 1.8 lenses with the camera as the lenses is a much better fit for recording video and capturing images in low lighting than the default lenses that the camera comes equip with. using some leftover fake blood I had bought for filming my footage and an old white shirt I had fashioned together a DIY killers costume.