Draft Proposal

Draft Proposal

Your idea and subject area:

This will be a landscape based project with a surreal twist. I will be looking to create a set of landscapes that each have something unusual about them. This will either be objects that don't belong in a setting, objects of unusual size or something similar that makes the landscape look a bit different. I will be looking to make the effect fairly subtle so that a viewer just glancing at the image would see an ordinary landscape, but something would be there that caught the eye and draws the viewer in for a closer look, to check what they are seeing. I already have a general aesthetic in mind for the project, one that is much inspired by Martin Vloch's work. It will be black and white, high contrast with a gritty feel.

I will be looking into forced perspective photography and digital composites to create the surreal images.

I have also considered stereograms and 3D image techniques to display the images as this will add the unusualness and add to the effect.

Research methodology:

I will be looking at past and current landscape and surreal photographers and artists as well as digital artists. Websites will be the majority of the research, but I will also be looking out for gallery work and any books that contain relevant work.

For the 3D imaging I will be researching and hopefully testing different methods to see if it will be feasible for what I want to produce.

How do you plan to realise the project:

I will be researching to start with to get an idea of the images I want to produce, I will then be searching for suitable locations and do some test shoots on location to see of they will work for what I want to produce. I will also be testing different 3d imaging techniques to see if they will work.

Timescales/production plan:

Research / Test shoots, Location scouts, method tests / further shoots / Editing / prints

The above is my general plan, but I will be looking to do whatever I can when I can.

Intended audience and output:

As its a fine art based project my output will be a few high quality prints. Intended audience is people interested in surreal/landscape work.