Final Self Imagery Project Proposal

For my 'Self Imagery' project I have decided to incorporate the idea of 'self' with the theme of subcultures. A subculture is a select group of individuals who share a common interest; this could be football fans, trainspotters or youth culture such as skin heads, teddy boys and punks. They show there common interest through the clothes they wear, the food they eat and the activities they do. I have decided to use this theme in my 'Self Imagery' project because I am very interested in individuality and identity.

I have decided that I have become very interested in a subculture local to me in Hertford called the 'Celtic Harmony'. I found out about this organisation because I went there as a child and I met a number of them by chance in a Pub that I used to work in. The Celtic Harmony camp is an activity centre whereby families and schools can go to 'travel back in time' and live like a Celt for a day. The members of staff also dress up as Celts and live like them, using no electricity and only eating what would be available to them in 'The Iron Age'.

In the build up to my final shoot I am going to do a lot of research on both subcultures and Celts so I know what would be most effective to photograph when I do my shoots. I will also need to do a number of experimental shoots, I will do both technical shoots and other shoots with the theme of subculture; this will help me learn what works and what doesn't work when shooting this theme. The technical shoots will include using the studio, experimenting with lighting, compositions and shutter speeds. This will be helpful when it come to shooting my final outcome because I can understand already what technical aspects look best. The shoots I will do with the theme of subculture will help my final outcome because I can learn the best and most effective way to portray subcultures.

For my final outcome I will need 20 final images showing off the theme of subculture, the shoot will take place in the Celtic Harmony Camp because the setting is very similar to that of 'The Iron Age', I am doing my final shoot on Thursday 18th; this was arranged by both myself and the manager of the Celtic Harmony camp. I am going to shoot around the camp capturing the idea of subculture, I will do a lot of group shots to show community and togetherness. I am going to mostly show off the types of clothes they wear, the activities they do and the food they eat. There will not be a lot of editing using Photoshop because I want to keep the authenticity of what they are doing, but I may experiment in changes the images to black and white or put an ageing filter to make it look more realistic to the era of 'the iron age'.