Photoshoot planning

 

Today I did a photo shoot with x4 young boys who were posing as the younger version of our indie rock band. I wanted to incorporate the idea into my ancillary project, that this group had a real story behind their formation, they weren't just a manufactured construction from a reality TV show. I aimed for it to seem as if even as small boys music was in the foreground of their interest- an intense passion, which sculpted their childhood and brought them up into a world where they all shared x1 key goal. I based my photos on the physicality of the vaccines album covers, aiming to mimic their formation and create links to this particular style of musical photography. I took several photographs on an SLR - then edited them in after effects & also took a number on a disposable camera in order to achieve an indie, festival style effect & I also printed off a number of photographs on a polaroid camera in order to make them seem more vintage. I did originally want to photograph a band of late teens & I did several brainstorms of ideas having EG: x4 boys sharing one face / a face made up of photograph & painting & sketching - to build up a tactile image, using a polaroid shot of x4 boys by a London landmark completely shadowed, created a line of boys posing as if their were going through evolution into each other or grown men, having x4 boys doing handstands against a brick wall, having x4 boys spraying the band name on a brick wall, x4 at a festival on a disposable - playing their instruments by a tent...etc - However actually acquiring a group of people to use proved to difficult & thus I thought I would try and explore other options in order to achieve something more realistic! My shoot overall went really well, I am not 100% sure if I like my idea / images, or if I am stretching my abilities far another, however I took a diverse range of photographs & the boys were fantastically easy & energetic yet tameable to work with (something which worried me as they were only 10!).