Photoshoot Planning

Media Studies – Foundation Portfolio Photo shoot planning document 



What emotional impact do you want your photography to have upon the reader and how will you achieve this?
I want the images to come across quite creepy and eerie so that it will reflect a horror. For this we have planned that we would like to take close up's of the clown's face as in our research, we found that close up's of the antagonist was a popular choice. 


 What personnel do you need? Who are you going to photograph? 
For our photoshop, our old friend is going to pal the part of the clown, so we are going to use him for the images. 


 What props will you need? 
All we plan to use is a lightbox and the clown's mask. 


 How are you going to emphasise colour? 
The colours we would like to emphasis in tis image will be the typical horror colours of black and red, with the white on the mask. This way the poster will look dark, scary and appealing to a horror-audience. 


 Have you briefed your personnel/models? 
Yes, we have spoken to our clown, so he knows that type of photo's we plan to take and the overall idea of the poster so he knows what is in stall for the photoshoot. 


What lighting will you need? Any other equipment? 
We will just need a lightbox for our images. Possibly use a phone light for a more intense white light on the clown, but this would be depending on the images off the lightbox. We 
would like to experiment using different light so we have a wider variation to choose from. 


Where will you shoot? Will you need a backdrop? 
We plan to just use the plain black background in the collage's photography studio, as it will help bring out the red and yellow in the mask. This would also give us the darkness we want in out poster. 


Mise-en-scene - Make-up? Costumes? Props? 
The only bit of make-up we will need for our clown would be some white face paint for the clown's neck to blend the mask in with his t-shirt. The costume and props would be the Clown's mask.