My third idea.

My third photo shoot idea, consists of my photo two photo shoots added together. My final idea is to have teenagers drinking with bottles however in the situation of a tea party. I want this idea to be unique, and hopefully it will come across within my photos, of a strong message. This will be the first of two photo shoots; one will be an improvement on this and my final one.
I have an idea in my head of how I want this to turn out and hopefully it will come across in my images.

My second idea

My second idea, is to have a normal tea party, however have teenagers instead of kids. I have two locations for this and I am not to sure which one will work best. The first location is down where I work - as we do a lot of kids parties and have to correct sort of area, and background, to make the image unique. The second location is outside in my garden, this could be the perfect backdrop, and make it look like a normal tea party would. I want to have the tables set out as they were in the first photo shoot - which all the tea cups, cakes balloons ect. I have taken my idea from the work of Marin Parr and capture different photos of different activities which would happen throughout the day. For example face painting, eating, games, ect.
This is the photo I have taken as inspiration however I want it to be plainer and just to be two people, using different levels, by having one sat down and one stood up.

My first idea

The first idea which I want to take relating back to my topic of portraying society, I want to be very simple although I want to  try to convey a bold message. I want to use many props, however not all in the same image. In this photo shoot I aim to use no models and focus mainly on the props.
The list of props I want to try and use are:

• Tea cups
• Mugs
• Tea Pots
• Jars
• Place Mats (all 5 trying to relate to the British flag or something relating back to society.)
• Cakes 
• Sandwiches
• Cake Stands
• Balloons (red, white, blue.)
• Bunting (either the colour of the British Flag or of the British Flag.)
• The British Flag
• Ribbon
• Flowers

My inspiration has come from these images:







I am hoping to try to recreate something along these lines, however put my own twist on it, and make them original.

Tea party, rebellion, and royalists.

This idea is to combine all three ideas together (a tea party, rebellion, and the idea of royalists.) Like before I want to have teenagers at a tea party but drinking alcohol, but having royalist things such as bunting and mugs with the flag on. Once again I have tried to find images to explain this idea - but by the looks of it no one has done it before (which is always positive because it means it is original.)

Tea party and rebellion

Another idea of mine is to combine the idea of a tea party with the idea of teenager's rebellion. I have tried to find images to explain this idea - but by the looks of it no one has done it before (which is always positive because it means it is original). This idea is to have a tea party set up and get my friends who would be teenagers to sit down at this tea party, but have beer and vodka instead. I have an idea in my head of what this should look like and if it works it will look really effective. There will be a photo shoot of this idea to follow.

Robert Frank

Robert Frank has captured the way society used to be. This is a good idea and could be done through using black and white imagery and even film cameras.


This image has used lines to draw the onlooker's eye into the image. By using both horizontal and vertical lines it sections to the picture up - and obviously he has used the rule of thirds, when using this many lines. The only things which personally I feel doesn't work are the peoples face - out of focus.


There is a repetition throughout all the Robert Franks pictures and that  is that he uses lines to draw people attention. The lines used in this one are the horizontal ones of the bench. The two people look awkward as the way they are composed to be sitting looking away, and the white of her dress stands out against the black of his suit.




This image was a very bold statement back then, because the colour of the woman's skin and the colour of the baby skin - this shows how much society has changed and I could incorporate that into an image how nowadays its fine to be different coloured skin and be together.


This image is quirky because the top of the instrument is where his head should be. This is about society because by the use of the flag at the top of the image. The aspect of this image I don't like is how you can see two arms in either side of the image. This draws attention from the main focus. The white of the jacket contrast the darkness of the image. There isn't really a range of tones used which is better. However you can see there is texture to the wall as it is all granular.

This represents society by having the American flag at the top. Once again in this image - you can't see the models heads. This is obviously Robert Frank's style and it would be fun to recreate. The use of tones in the wall show texture  and give it a 3D dimension.

William Klein

This photo frames an image of society, which portrays violence and anger. Having the gun in the foreground however slightly out of focus bring the attention to it. As well having it in line with the face means you see the face as well - which draws attention to the facial expressions showing the anger in society and in people. The age of you other kid, shows the violence doesn't matter what age you are.



This is the edited image of the one above. I personally feel this is a bigger impact for the reader as the red draws the attention in. Also where it is a montage of many images, it shows more than one perspective. I am going to try and recreate this by trying this editing skills and the idea of a montage. I will also try to recreate the idea of having a gun and facial

This portrays society without the use of people and models. This is always helpful - because if I want to recreate it I don't need to plan with people and see what they are free. This image uses the rule of thirds, and I love the idea of how it is in black and white. I want to try and use a film camera to recreate this.