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Task 2 Media Cambridge Tech

• By Luke Munro

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Vanessa Pauletta Sleepless nights

• Overall theme for all the book covers of
  Sleepless Nights by Vanessa Pauletta will be
  insomnia, about a guy who did many tours of
  Afghanistan as an infantry soldier who is
  suffering very harshly from insomnia, and also
  his wife who have a baby daughter.
• In all the photos, I will try to convey the
  struggle of living with an insomniac but also
  show the love that they share. My first few plans
  are to have a silhouette of the man sat at the
  end of the bed holding his head in one of his
  hands with his other arm stretching to a cot and
  the woman on her knees rubbing his shoulders.
• Then I will have one of him leaning his back
  against the bedroom window with his wife laying
  in bed and the cot next to the bed, and finally
  of him laid wide awake with his wife laid asleep
  on his shoulder. He is just looking upwards
  towards the ceiling whilst she lays against him,
  his eyes are bloodshot and wide open, he looks
  really tired. For this photo I may use the black
  and white effect as the style.
• My last two ideas involve the first being fairly
  similar to the last one I mentioned, with the
  main character holding his sleeping wife except
  the camera and his head are repositioned so the
  baby is in the photo, and he is looking over at
  the baby. I would for this photo use the blur
  effect with the baby blurred and the man looking
  at her.
• My final idea is the protagonist sat up on the
  bed with his arms together on his lap, looking at
  his spouse and holding her hand whilst she looks
  up at him, with the black and white effect being
  used to bring the emotion out in the cover.
• The man will be the centre focus and dominant
  element of the book covers.

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Inspiration for Sleepless Nights book covers
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Planning a photoshoot
What is the purpose of your photo-shoot? The
purpose of this photoshoot is to decide a cover
for Sleepless Nights by Vanessa Pauletta, and
the types of photographs will range from
silhouette stills to full set page shots of the
main characters in their bedroom. For this, I
will organise a photo-shoot to find which of my
10 planned photos would be best to use. I will be
selecting and editing five of these photographs
for the finished piece. What type of photographs
will be taken? The types of photos I will take
will focus on the theme of insomnia. I believe I
will be using for all of my 10 photos, a large
depth of field, however this could change at any
time and other effects may be unique to the
particular photo I plan to take. What I want the
audience to see is a man who is struggling to
cope, a man who truly cant see any way out of
this torment hes going through but he feels
responsible to the happiness of his wife and
daughter, who he loves. Are these photos on
location of within a studio? Have you got
permission to work there? I believe that for
these photos, I would need to use a bedroom more
than a studio so it would honestly depend on
whose bedroom it was and if they had a part
within the actual photo itself. We would need
probably minimum lighting, perhaps just the
lights in the room itself, and just the one
camera to take the photos, and we will make a
risk assessment due to the possibility of
somebody getting hurt. We will also be making
notes to prove who we have contacted and got
permission from, and detailed plans throughout
the photo-shoot in case we ever get delayed or
need to postpone the photo shoot itself. The
equipment I will be using involves a camera and
perhaps a soft-box light or two to make it look
as authentic as possible.
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Planning a photoshoot
Based on professional rates, how much will the
shoot cost and what costs does it
cover? Photographer rates and charges vary on
the particular task at hand that you ask for the
photographer to do.
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Planning a photoshoot
Do you require models, props, costumes and
why? I require a female model, no props and just
smart-casual outfits as appose to a full on
costumes. I needed the model to be in the photo
with myself to make it seem more relationship and
romance orientated, and I wanted to avoid the use
of props so we wouldnt need to fall behind if
that prop wasnt on hand. The fact that I didnt
need costumes was because it didnt seem suitable
for what I had in mind. What safety
considerations will you need to take? Have you
completed a risk assessment? See recce check
slide. What legal and ethical considerations
must be made for the photo shoot? The only real
legal issue that we can really think of is making
sure we have the consent of the people who we
photograph and the people who owns the locations
of the shoot. Ethical issues involve respecting
certain aspects of the people you involve within
the shoot itself, such as dressing and
representation of the character within the shoot
itself. How will the images be developed? What
editing software/techniques will be used to
finalise the images? I imagine if I had to use
any editing software, I would end up using Adobe
Photoshop, but I really do not know if I will be
needing to use it as I plan to make my photos as
photorealistic as possible. Ill develop them by
putting them onto the computer and if and when I
am satisfied with them, I will print them out and
showcase them.
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Recce check

1. Are these any potential hazards that could pose a
   health and safety risk where your photo shoot
   will take place? The potential hazards involve
   wiring if we were to use lights, especially if
   they are just lying all over the floor, along
   with many of the other obstacles on the floor.
   The lights themselves get really hot and use a
   lot of energy.
2. What will you do to ensure these risks are
   minimised? To minimise the risk, we will make
   sure there is a clear path and the wires and
   lights are taped down and pinned in place to
   ensure they dont move around and catch us
   unawares. We dont touch the lights and we switch
   them off when they are not being used.
3. Will the time of day/weather affect the outcome
   of the photos? Have you allowed for this? The
   weather may not particularly effect the outcome
   of my photos because we dont plan on going
   outside, the time of day would have to be after
   sunset. It would be more helpful if we did this
   photo-shoot in the winter as the nights come
   earlier so we wouldnt have to arrange for
   everything to happen later on in the day at
   unreasonable hours.
4. Have you considered the background to your
   photos, particularly if taken outside? How will
   you ensure you will get the background you want?
   I am sure that I will get the background I need
   as the setting I will be using wont change
   backgrounds other than outside the window.
5. Have you considered lighting? What about the
   problems of natural lighting, either outside, or
   streaming through a window? Will you need to use
   a flash? Have you considered reflective objects
   that might spoil the effect? Personally, I am
   not sure if I would need any lighting since my
   idea for the book cover is dark and shady, but if
   there is lighting issues Ill edit them out on
   Photoshop.
6. Do you need permission to take photos in the
   place/venue you have in mind? I would need
   permission from the person whose room I would be
   using for the photo, and permission to use
   certain props.
7. Do you need to book time in a room/space? To
   answer this question, I would need only the
   permission of who gives me their room.
8. Are other people/crowds likely to be an issue for
   you? What have you done to ensure that it will
   not spoil the effect? Honestly I dont expect
   crowds to be an issue at all, we will be in a
   small area and if anyone needs to interrupt us,
   they will knock on the door and let us know.
9. Are you reliant on lifts/props/friends
   equipment/models? How have you planned that these
   things will come together at the appointed time?
   Plan B? I am reliant on favours from other
   people, whether it be to organise a location and
   particular props, I havent asked anyone just yet
   though.
10. Finally, have you thought of every eventuality?
    Is there anything else to consider now you have
    seen the brief/work area? I have thought of
    using the quick selection on Photoshop to pick up
    everything I need and paste it on a new
    background. If I couldnt get everything together
    for the photo, I will do a random shoot with my
    selected model and use a quick selection tool
    within Photoshop.

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Risk assessment

• Brief description of the location (and reason for
  filming at location)
• We will be shooting in the bedroom of someone who
  is kind enough to let us use their room, and the
  reason we would be filming there is because we
  would need a bedroom and for it to look as
  authentic as possible. Description of this place
  would be, a double bed, a cot, a big open window,
  evenly spread out space for us to walk around. I
  still am very much in the early days of deciding
  who to include let alone how to transport them to
  the shoot location, so that I really cannot
  predict if I need transport yet.
• What are the potential risks/hazards? How can
  risks be overcome?
• Risks that are to be raised to concern include
  when inside, make sure there are no loose wires
  on the ground, taking care when using the
  equipment and making sure there isnt much sun
  exposure to the camera.
• These risks will be prevented by making sure
  wires are taped down and/or out of harms way,
  making sure the equipment is only on when it
  needs to be and not touching the lights because
  of the heat, and placing the camera in a safe
  location whether or not the sun is out. As far as
  human threat goes, I see it being at a fair
  minimum, I dont really see anyone threatening
  this shoot on a very significant level.
• Example scenario If we were to be shooting on a
  cliff in Saltburn and Whitby, Id make sure there
  wasnt any uneven parts on the surface close to
  the edge of the cliff itself, so nobody could
  fall off. The weather will play a significant
  role in a photoshoot, with anything as bad as
  rain or snow making the trip to and onto the
  cliff itself a very uneasy experience and those
  going up, as they might slip, with the equipment
  most likely being damaged or faltered in any way.
• Clothing would play a part in this as we would
  have to wear clothing that suited the weather.
• In a studio, wed ensure any wires and hazards
  such as an uneven blue/green screen would be
  taped down or evened out, unplugging and wrapping
  up the wires of appliances when they are not
  being used.

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Shooting schedule

• I would preferably like to start shooting around
  hours that suited me and the people around me,
  but outside of college hours and honestly I would
  like it to be once its dark. This schedule would
  be very tight through to the end of the day, so
  we would have to spend a lot of pre-planned time
  waiting, so either whoever needs to be on set can
  turn up early and discuss with me regarding input
  or turn up late and just get told what to do and
  where to be.

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More legal issues

• Whilst my idea is inspired by many stills from
  films, or from the front of other books, this
  will not be a carbon copy of indeed any book at
  least that I know of cover. We will ensure
  everyone who is in the shot, we have their
  permission otherwise they wouldnt be in the shot
  at all, and we will try and avoid offending
  anyone, especially as in this shot, the girl
  involved will have to wear skin tight shorts. The
  picture will not be sending any further negative
  meaning within the photo.

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Contingency plans

• I realised that my ideas are rather ambitious
  given the time frame that I have for my
  photoshoot, so I am willing to make a few
  sacrifices in order to fit my ideas into. I was
  hoping for many of my ideas to be very
  particular, set in a very controlled environment
  with a dress code of a very particular style, but
  I do realise with the amount of time I have that
  to do this.
• So otherwise, I now plan on doing a very simple
  photoshoot within the college studio, and just
  utilising shots of me and my chosen model
  Charlotte, which I would then incorporate into
  Photoshop and use a Quick Selection Tool.
• Not all that what I needed can be made available
  in the appropriate time frame however, so my I
  will enforce my back-up plan to what I need.