FInal Shots

After thinking about different ideas for where to shoot my final images, I kept landing on the idea of shooting them in water, as it would tie in to the theme of the shoot taking place on Earth, as most of the planet is water. I also found this a lot easier to shoot as there wasn't as many issues with the back-rounds of the images being too distracting.

 

 

 

 

These images were taken together in a bath, with Vaseline and glitter on the skin that then transferred into the water.

This image I took after I had finished shooting other images, and decided to use it as my front cover.

 

I shot this image in the bath after painting the hands using supra-colour and adding some glitter.

I then edited using the clone stamp feature on Photoshop to get rid of the little finger, to create alien looking hands.

 

 Overall I included over 2o images, mostly close-up and cropped images so it wasn't always clear what was being looked at, creating a sense of unease.

I was very happy with my final images, much more than my first attempt and am very happy that I had the chance to retake.

Test Shots

I decided to do test shooting outside for this project, mainly as I wanted to see if the glitter/shimmer looks worked better in natural sunlight. I didn't add too much to this look as I just wanted to see how the colours and products would show up.

 

I played around with changing the eye colours at this point, as I knew I wanted to incorporate the yellow eyes in my project as this is a heavy theme in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth.'.  I decided that this would definitely be included in my final images.

 

I decided after doing these that maybe shooting outside wasn't the best option to do the majority of the shoots just because  I felt that the look wasn't 'alien' enough as the back-round made it look more like test shoots overall as opposed to being my Final Major Project.

 

Retaking

After I received my final grade for my FMP, I was very disappointed. I decided that I definitely wanted to try again and after a tutorial with Sharon, decided  to rename my project, 'The man who fell to Earth'. This will be inspired by the David Bowie film of the same name and will look at the idea of texture of the skin rather than creating a full SFX alien look. This will be presented in an online magazine rather than a file. This will be an easier and clearer way to display my images and work.

It was clear that I needed to produce more looks images for the project so I started test shots and ideas on my own skin of the kind of things I could use, including glitter, crystals and other colours.