So, I’ve had a few ideas bouncing around in my head lately that I’ve been wanting to shoot, so I figured I would write a little blog post about them so that they are out in the open and so that I can give them some concreteness. Several books and articles I’ve read say you need to shoot for yourself and come up with personal projects that you can work on for you and no one else, so I think it’ll be good for me to work on the following personal projects in the future.
Name That Tune
This is one I’ve had for a while. I want to take a song and create a photograph that expresses the ideas/themes/lyrics/title of the song. It will be my interpretation of the song, so it will allow me to be fairly creative in my representation of the song. One image per song. And there can be some collaboration involved too. If someone wants to help me by picking a specific song we can work together to come up with a good vision to follow for the execution of that song. Should help me with my planning and creativity along with some post-production too.
Childhood Stories
I know lots of photographers like to recreate fairy tales and other great stories, but I want to do mine a little differently. Most of the ones I see are a series – like Alice in Wonderland. Several shots that recreate the story or key elements from the story. What I want to do is have one shot per story. That’s it. That way as the series progresses it will be more varied rather than have several shots from the same story. It will be up to me and the people helping me to represent the story in a single frame. Hopefully with a constraint like that I can be more deliberate and detailed in each shot. And for an added twist, I want each story to have modern elements to it. A modern-day representation if you will – just to make it a little more challenging. Doesn’t have to be just fairy tales. Can also be books, movies, etc.
I’m not sure I like the name for this series, so if anyone else has some suggestions, please let me know!
So, those are my two personal projects to be working on in the future. They also sound like great candidates from my weekly Project 52 shots as I get them done. Watch for updates!