Proposal

Idea for narrative image making

To come up with an idea under, I was a little bit inspired by the American photographer, Jane Evelyn Atwood, who has been exploring the dark side of humanity. My project can also be related to one of the present cultural issues, the growing number of dogs on the streets and in dog homes. People seem to ignore the responsibilities they should take to care for another living being.

In this proposal I intend to present my idea for the given task which is to produce narrative image/s for an editorial magazine that I choose myself. The editorial magazine that I have chose to produce images for is 'your dog' Britain's best selling dog magazine. The magazine frequently includes documentary style photographs, so I have chosen to use documentary style for my narrative. Obviously the magazine involves images about dogs and owners and you can find articles about puppies, dog kennels, trainings, dog shows etc.

My initial and current idea in this topic is to produce a series of images documenting a dog adoption in order to convey the event (that is going to bring huge changes into the two lives) and the dog's mood changes. I plan on taking three consecutive images of the dog 1. in the cage, 2. taking out of the cage, 3. holding in the owner's arm. I'm going to apply the object, action, effect technique, which I hope it would successfully and simply get the story across to the viewer. I believe that this story fits into the general theme of the chosen editorial magazine. I hope my images will effectively portray the dog's mood changes with a start, middle and end for the narrative.

I will try to accomplish this efficiently by ensuring that the pictures are quite close-up to portray the certain feelings in a close enough aspect. I intend to shoot these images digitally with my Canon EOS 1100D on location using natural light. After shooting is completed, I intend to edit these images in the exact style as Richard Vantielcke. The three images would be in one frame separated by edges and placed horizontally next to each other. I will also edit them into black and white as I think it would work better and make a bigger impact on the viewer.