Project Plan

Project Plan

For my Project i plan to do Portraiture work that will be shot possibly under high key lightning. This is because i want to shoot my photo on a white or coloured background from the waist upwards because the clothing is important in the photo. I Plan to do my photo shoot in the studio in college because it has all of the equipment that will be necessary to do a successful shoot. My theme for the project of challenging perspectives is to get a male model and get him to wear women's accessories which would probably be a bra and get him to put it over the top of his clothing. This challenges the perspectives because it is out of the ordinary to see a man wearing a women's clothes. I think the model would look good in a tshirt whilst wearing the women's clothing.

There was a few photographers that influenced my project ideas. The first photographer was Diane Arbus. She photographed a man wearing women's rollers and wearing fake nails as a transgender shoot. I would argue that she wanted to create the point of gender equality and that each person is to their own. The second photographer that influenced my work was Nan Goldin. She photographed two males in a car dressed up in women's clothing with dyed hair, which one was only wearing a bra on their upper half of their body. These two photographers are were i got the idea of switching clothing from different genders. I didn't want to make a shoot quite as deliberate as these photographers did because i wanted just a slight change with the models clothes on. To do a successful shoot i will need the following equipment:

• 2 Soft Boxes
• Reflective dish
• Camera
• Coloured backdrop. 

For the shoot i will need certain props to set the scene for the shoot. These will include:

• Women's headband
• Bra
• Skirt

Without these props the idea of mixing the persons gender with the opposite genders clothing would be pointless because these props are what make the shoot challenge the perspectives.