WORKING OUT MOOD AND OVERALL EFFECT
"In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. history." -dosomething.org
When oil is spilt it causes a lot of destruction and deaths. Within my images I want that impact to be shown. I would like my model to look dead and struggling to survive within the oil. As I haven't done any shoot before on such a big scale I'm nervous I won't be able to pull this off and create the dramatic effect i'm envisioning in my head.
To make sure this goes to plan I want to find a photographer who likes to shoot in an artist way, I would also like him to shoot my whole book so he understands my ideas and the images flow.
A range of images I really love down to the angle of the shot and the position the model is in, is by Brian Bowen Smith. He created a series of women who were naked but had their bodies is such contorted ways it makes the overall effect so much more interesting. The reason I was drawn to these images was because in some it gave me the impression they were dead or hiding from something. This is the effect and overall mood I want to portray in my images.
When shooting my oil spill I want to try and get my model to move her body in weird way. As fish and animals die in the ocean from these oil spills I would like to try and capture this feeling within a few of my images. Having my model nearly naked will also make the oil show up well and if they were to wear clothes it would be distracting the the viewer and distort the look of the body. I want it to be obvious it's a human. To show the harsh realities if oil spill were to happen on us instead of animals.
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WHERE TO GO FROM HERE -
Testing out materials to use and finding a suitable model
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