Planning: Shot list and flat plans

THIS WORK WILL BE CONDENSED AND REDUCED.

DRAFT 1

Cover 1

Of a political 'celebrity', most likely focusing on climate change which is another hot topic for my demographic

Top Ideas:

• Beaches - normal portrait

• Swimming pool - Someone immersed in the water with a placard, 'The oceans are rising, so why aren't you?", preferably in normal clothes where their clothes are slightly on the surface of the water, as to make the image eye-catching

• or do underwater photography - Millie Turner as a celebrity and relate to climate change

• Do a studio photoshoot with code of gestures connoting activism + stern face or more positive and optimistic - Stormzy

Ideas for more creative portraits 

Creative portraits from ZoeOlawore

Cover 2 

Blacklivesmatter themed

• Girl in the trolley - to represent a bit of anarchy in an area that appears fairly isolated with a protest sign in hands or dangling from the trolley 
• Could go to the top level of the indoor parking to represent freedom- same idea but without trolley
• A black girl submerged in the water with a placard saying, "I can't breathe" in order to construct an impactful image
• Images at a protest of the placards, of girls protesting or of a more organized photo with a strong, stern face and placard - intertextuality
• Organized photoshoot in a studio covering the range of shades of black, connoting unity cover line like 'Do we matter?' - something that is a bit gripping - can be considered too formal
• Black back with white writing - or this can be for inside photos

DRAFT 2: 

Focusing on Cover 1

 Thinking of doing a series of profiles relating to what young people did during the summer/lockdown - particularly focusing on activism, charity work, fashion, sporting, retail work - could take photos in a creative studio

Inspired by Vogue's 'The New Frontline'

But I'm thinking instead of this, I could also do a political celebrity working on a specific cause - pro-environment

Focusing on cover 2

Potential locations so far:

- Laundry locations

- Woolwich ruins/ construction site

- Swimming pool idea
- Photo studio
- Busy street
- On something high

But is the dramatic mise-en-scene appropriate for the form or is this my USP - "brilliantly different"

What I want to remember:

- Inspiring, empowering representations of youth

- Creative aesthetic

- Deconstructing narrative of black women as a threat

Placard ideas:

particularly I would like to use the last one - I added the last line to construct an empowering representation but I don't know if it defeats my goal to humanize black women by deconstructing stereotypes by evoking empathy - this would just make her seem 'tough-skinned' (could have eyes slightly red to show pain)

REMEMBER THAT A LOT MORE DIFFERENT TOPICS WILL BE NEEDED FOR CONTENTS PAGE AND WEBSITE