Bringing Books to Life

Harry Potter Colour Variations

Harry Potter Shoot

I will undertake a shoot inspired by the book series Harry Potter, by J K Rowling. The images will depict somebody casting spells (beams of light) with a wand. I will do this by setting my camera to a shutter speed of about half a second, and having someone pull an LED across the frame, creating what should be a pretty convincing magic spell.

Things Not Seen

In Things Not Seen a boy wakes up entirely invisible. To other people he is just a set of floating clothes and a disembodied voice, and nobody knows why. For this shoot, I will photograph people going about their usual lives, and then edit them out of the image, leaving only their clothes and possibly whatever it was they were holding at the time.

The Red Pyramid

Messenger Development

Ignition Creative is a graphic deign company that specializes in designing film posters. A good portion of the posters they design are for horror films, and so they are a very suitable contextual for my messenger shoot. I will develop some of my images into posters, as though the book was being adapted into a film, in a similar style to those above.

In "Messenger" there is a forest that is evil. Anybody who goes into it ends up getting strangled by vines, falling on a spike or sinking into a swamp etc. I thought I could create a series of images of someone lost in this forest possibly looking scared and/or panicked, editing the forest to look dark and ominous to really create the atmosphere that such a forest might have.

1984 Surveillance Development

My Idea for this shoot plan is to take a series of portraits of people looking paranoid and/or depressed and editing them so that the people have no mouths. This is to express their inability to speak freely, and how that might affect them.

Inkheart Development

EDIT: Apparently the printers cannot print onto the page of a book so instead I will print onto acetate and glue it onto the page. The outcome should be exactly the same, albeit a little shinier.

Inkheart Shoot: Black and White