This being the course’s end of first year’s project we have been given complete freedom to choose what subject to do as long as it’s personal too our character or way of life. I am overwhelmingly excited also nervous as I’ve been planning it since the start of the pre-degree and slightly worried if I can reach the deadline or if my images will hopefully turn out the way I expected. I feel it’ll push my technical, visionary and directory skill sets to a limit I have not been able to reach before.
The idea for my last project of the year shall consist of 3\5 recreated album covers leading up to 1 self-made up creation for one album with a pretend band and cover name. I have saved on photos in my iPhone 590 different albums that are all selected by the personal taste of many genres I listen to, then making a couple smaller collections in my phone which one has 48 album artworks so it is an easier process of narrowing down the final 3-5 covers for recreated versions and I plan to somehow add the multiple album collections to the project’s criteria. Feel that experimenting with some equipment I’m not fully used to might push my creative capabilities in the right path like a Nikon 50mm lens, a remote shutter button, tripods studio lights, stands, meters and reflectors.
I’ve written down a couple ideas for recreations in my notebook such as ten years after a space in time which is set in a green field with all four band members staring into the camera lens a way I plan to reinvent it is slightly challenging. The location I have picked will be in Horror bridge where there is a massive amount of spots perfect for the chosen cover surrounding, equipment involves a remote shutter button, 50mm lens, and a tripod in worm angle view. the models are three close friends but I have back up people if the originals aren’t available and this album is the one of the two ill include myself in as one band member the other will be an album cover also band name I shall make up from scratch entirety.
Another album I’ve picked is David Bowie’s low this takes quite a bit of preparation in the background, after finding an orange bed sheet where I’ll add white and black paint in the right places too create similar look then using lights and stands.
Third is Jamie T panic prevention the artist is surrounded in a small environment with a large scruffy atmosphere electric guitar rested in his lap room consists many different types of musical equipment record player, records, keyboard, a nylon string guitar, parts of a drum set, computer amongst objects considered as trashy beer cans and mugs. Film and music posters are scattered all across the walls making no visible trace there is one. It has a stylish hoarders vibe so my bedroom can be altered too have almost an identical look in the correct angle.
I’ve recently realized a large some of Bob Dylan portrait album covers are perfect for my project narrative as he has created 38 studio albums, 13 live albums, and 91 single plus winning the 2016 noble prize in literature. I found his album covers particularly useful due to the amount of them also the simplicity in many, only a few seemed complex in fashion, props or amount of people but I have a collection saved on my iPhone of just Bob Dylan’s album covers.
I’ll branch out into other ideas which were suggested by one of the teachers after hearing my overall plan, it was too explain what a song lyric means to me personally and transcend it into a scene I feel would be a perfect definition of what exactly it is meant to be from the artist perspective. A great example for this is “Tom waits” Tango till they’re sore, he uses incredible distinctive lyrics with many imaginary storytelling features of real or nonreal characters he continues to describe them as dancing or tangoing throughout the song is perhaps in a dive bar or some type music drinking session. The lyric I’d used is one that says throughout the chorus also my favourite part “let me fall out the window with confetti in my hair” I’d use two models for the photograph one male in a falling motion out of my kitchen or living room window with confetti in his hair and another female model laughing whilst watching him, both would have alcoholic drinks in hands because I’d make it seem as if the surrounding would be that of a party scene.
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