Photoshoot Plan (2)
Due to certain issues on the day of our photoshoot, we had to push it back several weeks. This means that one of the final aspects outside of editing is our photoshoot.
The main issue we've come across is choosing what costume to have our artist in. As we're sticking with the dual personality theme, we need two contrasting outfits for each side. We want to keep the innocence side in a white dress or at least something white. However for the manic side we are less sure, we're thinking literally anything else could work. Anything with colour will contrast the white of the innocent side.
As our plan is to only use the top half of our artist for the majority of our digipak pictures it makes things a little easier for costume, making us focus on shirts/t-shirts/dresses, instead of an entire outfit. It's also a cover for the entire album so it can't be the exact same outfits as our music video.
However, there is one part of our digipak where we want a picture that goes across two panels. This could require a full outfit but most probably with the manic side as she is the darker side, therefore will be easier to contrast with. We got the idea from Halsey's own digipak.
We also took inspiration from a photo of Dua Lipa that had a colourful background as contrast to the darker clothing she was wearing.
We plan to do a similar shot to spread over the two inside panels, something that contrasts yet fits with the black and white theme of our digipak.
Our initial photos to use were just the face of our artist, but after a discussion we decided to change it slightly and have the two sides of DUPLICITY back to back; one looking up the other looking at the camera. Or at least something similar to that. Having the manic side making eye contact with the camera gives it that more intense and slightly uncomfortable feeling of the person staring right at you. As though the manic side is challenging the person looking at the picture to look away first, an act of dominance and control. The innocent side looking away shows a more submissive and vulnerable side to the artist, making them seem shy and lacking the confidence and challenging nature of the manic.
