On Wednesday, the After Dark group and I went back to our location to take photos for print. There are a few photos which I am particularly proud of:
The first is a group photo of the contestants from a high angle shot (looking down). The effect of this angle makes the contestants look smaller and more scared and to an audience it could look like the audience can easily be in control of them. The grave stones in the background help to set the scene.
The second picture is the complete opposite of the previous one. By having a low angle shot (looking up) it makes the contestants look more powerful as if they are ready to take on the challenges laid before them. It gives an audience a sense of fear and insecurity, who is psychologically dominated by the characters. This goes with the "thriller" side of our genre of "comedy-thriller". You can see part of the church in the background which is the location for our show. The tree also adds to the thriller side as it looks as it is looming over both the contestants and who ever is viewing the photo.
The next two pictures are similar however we have both sets of costume on as I have not decided which picture to use in my print yet however it will most likely be the first photo. By having a long shot of the hosts in the foreground and a very long shot of the contestants in the background, the audience is able to see every bit of us. It makes the hosts look more powerful and in control of the contestants who look smaller. However due to the audience being able to see our whole bodies it makes them feel like they are in control of everyone. A very long shot allows people to focus on the characters as well as to see what is in the background as well whereas the very long shot of the contestants is meant to give off a general impression of them as opposed to specific information, this could potentially leave an audience wanting to find out more. An audience will clearly be able to see the grave stones on either side and the Church in the background, allowing them to have an insight into what our reality program is about. Due to having all of this in one picture I believe it would make a good front cover picture to a magazine.
We also took some photos of the setting in case we wanted to use it as the background to our souvenir magazines.
Finally we took individual pictures of characters in both their sets of costumes so you get an outline into their personalty's. Medium shots allow audiences to really focus on what is happening in the shot. I sorted out the costumes for the girls and my partner did the boy's costume. Check my post on Character Profiles (http://mediamademedoit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/character-profiles.html) for information on each one.
Lucy Right is the fun (but sometimes annoying) character therefore she is wearing bright green trousers and has a giant cat on her t-shirt which some members of an audience could consider annoying and some could find cute and fun.
In her night clothes she looks fearless and ready to take on any challenge.
The photo of her tripping up adds to the "comedy" side of our genre of "comedy-thriller"
Sienna Parnell is used to more of an upper-class society hence why she is in a floral buttoned blouse, simple blue skirt and has her hair tidied up into a bun.
In her night clothes she looks as though she is above all of this, as if nothing is able to scare her, however in the show this may not actually be true.
Ashley Jenson is the main girl in our program. She is wearing the most short and revealing clothes and in our show is the most stupid therefore she is an archetype of blonde women in the media.
In her night clothes all she cares about is how she looks, she does not take winning very seriously as appearance is of the utmost importance to her. She is the type to get scared easily.
Our last contestant is Mason Cole. He is wearing blue which is a colour that is stereotypical as it tends to be associated with the gender of males.
He is laughing in his individual photo as his character is known for being a "class-clown". Unfortunately we had some issues with this actors costume as even though we constantly reminded him to bring different clothes to change into for the different pictures he still didn't, therefore the best we could do for the night photos was zip his coat up and try not to get his bottom half in it too much so it does not look as if he is wearing the same trousers. I am sure I can Photoshop his jacket to look darker in the second picture.
Of course I still need to Photoshop the background to look darker in all the photos where the contestants are wearing darker clothes as I have with the following pictures for the title sequence:
A before and after picture is available on this post:
http://mediamademedoit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/light-to-dark.html
Of course I wont be able to include all these pictures but it's better to have taken a lot and chose from them later than not to have taken enough pictures.