I have had a lot of ideas to what I could produce in this project.
Ranging from:
- Projections
- Time lines
- Hidden identity
- Gender
Projections.
My idea was to have a simple portrait of my model, and using a projector, project different characteristics upon the photograph. The projections would change over and over again - changing from a 'chav' to a 'goth' etc etc.
This was one of my favourite ideas, but the draw back was that I would have only one image on the wall, and even though I would have taken the images that the projection would be showing, there would be no hard copy of the image. Also the projections of the images might not be strong enough against the image on the wall.
This idea was to show how a persons identity changes fast.
The Time Line
This was another idea that I liked and I could see it working well. The time line would consist of having the same model in every photograph but as a different identity - due to the clothes that the model would be wearing. The idea was to show how your identity that you show people with your clothes changes from when you were little, all the way to the current day. I wanted to have a date under every photograph to show the change of a person over the years. I was also going to have the photographs printed at different sizes, e.g. going up in sizes, like steps. The first date being the smallest photograph.
This also caused a few problems at how I was going to make my model look younger than what she is. I even thought about using a younger person to portray that image. This idea caused too many problems that might be hard to pull off and I could have ended up with a range of photographs where the model did not look any younger in any of them and my idea would not have been successful.
The other identity ideas where simple - like the gender idea and have done been many times before. The problem with the hidden identity idea was how would I be able to show this? Mirrors have been used in a lot of identity photographs and even though I do like the ideas, I felt that it would be as orginal as I want.