THINK PINK!

Image post photo shoot/video

This week, we had a task to create a photo shoot in pairs and make a small video in correlation to the colour which we were given. (Mine was obviously pink). This was a great task for me as Ive always enjoyed creating artistic visual images to take photographs of. 

Firstly, in our seminar we discussed ideas for our photo shoot. Through discussion, our overall idea was to have a masculine figure in the image painted blue. This central figure was the focal point of the whole image. Around this, the composition was to have beauty products painted the same shade pink as our background. This idea was to depict stereotypes of the contrasting female and male lifestyles. Next, we then thought about how we would create a short video and I had the idea of pouring baby pink paint over the blue masculine figure as an artistic and feminist movement. Women can be masculine too!

Image from photo shoot

Image from video

To create our visual image, we had to shop!! firstly we thought about what to get for the masculine figure so we walked around the Victoria Centre, Nottingham, and went into Tiger. From here, we found a mid sized scull and thought it would be great in proportion with the size of beauty products. After this, we went to Wilko to get all of the beauty products and paints that we needed. Although we used a bold and brave pink spray paint for our background, If we were to do it again I would of got another can to go over it as the dark pink marks were unforgiving and slightly take away from the clean lines of the images and give it a softer edge.

Next, we then went to my accommodations courtyard to create and take the images of our visual creation took the images on an Iphone 7 Plus which took extremely clean, sharp images and video. Here is an image of the short video we made, pouring paint over the masculine figure. This is expressing that women don't have to strive to be beautiful and can be masculine too! stereotypes can damage what a woman can 

think of herself and pouring pink paint over a blue masculine figure shows men don't have to have feel so masculine too. the contrasting ways I look at this video help me realise how being open minded about a visual concept can change an image and also the way we think. Women shouldn't feel that being masculine is a bad thing and that being who you really are is what really matters.