For this week, I focused on searching for more ways to shoot photographs that express emotions and also read some articles and watched some videos that lectures using shadow and light. I asked my friend to be my model and schedule the time. So far everything went so well following the plan.
Alicja Rodzik’s work And Love Me When I Gone was my inspiration, I am going to create some black and white photographs that are narrative. Which could share the feelings during lockdown that people felt lonely, insecurity, anxiety and this kind of feeling has been normal in daily life under so much pressure. I wish my work could somehow be a way to get the connection between people who have these problems and also a way for me to release the emotion.
Basically, I don’t have professional lighting kits and my lamp is warm light which I don’t like. In class someone told me I could switch the light bulb and that’s a really good tip. I was thinking using dark light because according to my research “one of the most emotion-filled types of light is dark, intense lighting” (Cox, 2019). For my project which I want to express blues at the beginning, I want to shoot photographs in black and white and use lights to create a unique sad lonely atmosphere.
Also, I have more ideas for the site setting like using chairs and some pros like masks to remind the lockdown time. To see the chemistry between the products and model. The model that I invited is my friend and she is not that professional. But she is really good at listening and quickly getting the ideas of what I need.
More ideas jumped from my mind and I wrote it down on my notebook and also finished my storyboard.