PLANNING: 'PHOTOSHOOT' SCENE

Since the sociopath is a photographer, our group decided to construct and film a scene revolving around a photoshoot, where SAM gets frustrated with the models. We intend to show in this way how he has exacting standards and needs everything to be in focus. His frustration borders on bullying. If the film were developed as a full-length feature film, it is likely that his boorish behaviors towards women, his photographic models and his girlfriend in particular, would result in violence.

Jean Shrimpton by David Bailey

To research how to film the photoshoot scene, we decided to do some research on how photographers shoot their models and position them. Photographers are well known to be controlling and demanding of the models. The video, 'David Bailey 7 Images That Changed Fashion Photography' clearly demonstrates this. Our character SAM is a photographer with sociopathic tendencies. His job offers the perfect opportunity to control and command women, his models.

We ended up deciding that the pose used in the video by this model would be an excellent pose to use, since it looks elegant.  We will use two models in our photoshoot. One of them will be shouted at for not following SAM's instructions and the second model will comfort the other one.

In addition, we decided that one of the photographer's stylistic preferences would be to use black and white, therefore the photos produced for the scene would be black and white. It evokes a particular quality associated with quality and tradition. It is a serious rather than playful look, typical of the character SAM that we have created. The black and white theme gives a neo-noir feel to the whole film, which I feel will attract arthouse audiences. The dresses worn by the models will black and white.