FMP idea 3

My third FMP idea is to show the person we are used to seeing vs what they do which may surprise people. My goal is to make people realise you shouldn't judge a book by its cover weather it be about the lifestyle they live, the clothes they wear or the hobbies they participate in. I would create these by either having the 2 images next to each other or by using double exposures. For example a portrait of a woman and and a full body shot of the same woman enjoying her hobby for example dancing. Or I may decide to do something to similar to Gillian Wearing where the people in the pictures seem conventional however they are holding signs of what they do for a living or their hobbies that you wouldn’t expect from them. I could also (still thinking of Gillian Wearing’s style) do a similar thing but with emotions or what they think about certain things?

Photographers who have covered this area:
Gillian Wearing
Jane Bown (provokes natural emotions)
Tom Hussey

Equipment needed:
Studio lighting kit
Flash cable
Backdrops                                                                                         

Digital Camera
Light metre

I have a home studio kit so I will not need to hire out any equipment however if I needed to I could borrow a lighting kit from the college if I had any faults with my own.

Pro’s	Con’s
Challenging	Challenging
Something new to experiment with	Finding confident models
Improve flash skills	Complicated, has to be just right for it to work
Find true person behind the perception	Models may not want to reveal the true them due to it being a personal hobby etc.

The main downfall for this project will be finding the models to participate in this timescale. However if I stubble fining models to come into a studio I could always go out on location into a public place and ask members of the public like Gillian Wearing did. This will be a good backup but will also be a big confidence booster for myself as I will be going out of my comfort zone talking to unknown members of the public.

Costings:

little thank you chocolates for models roughly £4

If done in college buy them coffee roughly £2 per person

Professionals who may be interested:
Editors from magazines?

Timescale:
10-20 finals images over the 3 months

Visual examples: