Friday, 3 May 2013
Concept of Overall Shoot
I took my inspiration for the overall shoot from looking at pop art and comic books. I wanted to really bring this to life with my own twist for the layout of my shoot. It has strong references to the period I'm shooting with artists such as Any Warhol creating iconic pop art images in the 60's.
Although i'm not directly copying Andy Warhol, I definitely wanted to bring the use of the background into my shoot. The reason I decided to go with this look was because of my decision to use a lot of fashion references. I still want to get the story across so I thought speech bubbles in a comic style would do this perfectly. My original idea came from looking at an amazing book called "SuperHeroes - Fashion & Fantasy", it has great references to pop art and really got me thinking about how I could make this work.
The Man Upstairs - Hair, Make-up & Styling
I wanted to simply shadow and emphasise the bone structure of my model Joe's face. I wanted to make all the areas of his face look heavy to give him a more psychotic look. The hair was really simple I just groomed and gave him a side part. For his body I wanted it to look defined under the camera so I added baby oil. To make it look like he had just killed somebody I added Fake Blood to a water spray and covered him in appropriate areas. I covered to knife in blood to give extra effect.
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| Before |
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| Mid stage |
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| Oiled up |
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| Blood sprayed on |
The Man Upstairs - Overall idea
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| American Psycho |
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| American Psycho |
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| Twilight |
For my overall concept of the Killer/Man upstairs I wanted to grasp the feel of a psychotic killer but bring a sexual twist to the forefront. I love Christian Bale in American Psycho, he is extremely handsome but at night he is a psychotic killer - perfect! That is exactly what I want to achieve. I thought I could make the look have a more sexual feel by simply doing it topless like the boys from Twilight do very well!
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| Psycho |
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| American psycho |
All the psycho films capture the essence of what I want to achieve. Its all about the look from the eyes. That is why I want to make sure I get the correct model to give me that psychotic pose. The sexiness within the shoot will just soften the whole concept a little and make a little less horror/gore.
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