The student proposes a portrait photography project shooting band members and people with musical instruments. They plan to shoot 50 portraits and edit them down to 10 for a music magazine. They are inspired by photographers Nick Pickles, Rebecca Randall, and Vanessa Jordan who shoot bands and musicians. The student will use a Canon 7D camera with a 50mm prime lens and tripod to capture high quality portraits outside in Manchester town centre, representing the style of the magazine Classic Rock.

1. Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practise
Project Proposal
(P2, P3, M2, M3, D2, D3)
Candidate
name:
Theme: Music Magazine Portrait Photo Shoot
Predicted final outcome
When I do my portrait shoot I will come out with 50 different portraits that I
will later narrow down to a 10. These images will be mainly like band photos
and people with musical instruments. The reason for this is because I really
like images when they have an instrument with them. I will then edit these
images to make the images look more professional.
Reasons for selection of theme (including inspiration from the work of others)
The reason I want to take band images or ones with instruments is because I
am inspired by a photographer called Nick Pickles. He takes images of
bands wiliest they are performing and images of them promoting there
band e.g; band posters or cd covers.
Another photographer would be Rebecca Randall she takes image that
are still bands or artists but her artists are more modern such as snoop dog or
Drake. I like her images because most of them are in black and white.

2. My final inspiration is Vanessa Jordan the reason for this is she takes images
of allot of indie bands and artists. I like this because these types of images
are the ones that I want to take.
The photo imaging equipment and medium that will be used and why
The camera I will be using is a Cannon7D with a 50mm 1.8 prime lens. This
will make my portraits become the best quality they can be. I will also use a
large tripod so that my images will be focused and not blurry.

3. Techniques that will be used and how they will help convey the visual
message
The images I will be shooting will be of different people outside. The settings I
will need to change will be the ISO, shutter speed and Aperture/ Depth of
field. The reason for this is because I will be shooting during the day.
However some of my settings will change depending on what the weather
is like. Or whether I am inside or not.
Location of shoot
My images will be based on the music magazine Classic
Manchester town
Rock.
Centre
The reason for this is that all the images in this are
normally ones that are remembered through time and
they became extremely popular.
Risk and health and safety considerations
I will complete a risk assessment