Shooting Over the Break

This break I am planning to shoot regular roadkill, a girl with roadkill, a girl and a deer head, and hunters slaughtering a deer. My project is evolving more from simple roadkill to other kinds dead animals, not necessarily on the road, and people with these other dead animals. I was also thinking to shoot dead animals/roadkill in the snow. I saw one picture from getty images (in my slideshow below) of a fox on the road, dead, with its blood next to it in the snow, and I like the peaceful juxtaposition of the dead animal with its blood and the quietness of the snow. I want to emulate an image like this. Alexis said that I might have to stage a few shoots with fake blood and already found dead animals, and I am trying to plan that out for the break.

Inspiring Roadkill Pictures

Status

I just processed film. It was two rolls of two different dead squirrels. The squirrels I shot this weekend weren't bloody or gory, but I want to shoot bloody and gory things sometime this term. I have to just wing it as I go with this project because there is no way for me to predict what type of roadkill will be on the road or if there even will be any on the road. Next I want to try to find a dead deer on the side of the road. I decided I will try to always shoot on Sundays because that is the day the roadkill cleanup people don't come. I can't shoot this weekend because of my ballet show, but I am going to shoot lots of rolls over break.

Brainstorming

Roadkill?

I have been thinking about the idea of shooting roadkill (deer, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, turtles, etc) and I am really liking it.

I think I want to shoot plain roadkill and people with roadkill.

Questions/Thoughts:

Can I in reality have people sit/lay next to road kill? Will no one want to? Will it be germ-infested?

How is roadkill metaphorical?

How can I get people and roadkill to work? Is that metaphorical?

3 Goals

1. To get my project really good/where it needs to be in the beginning of it rather towards the middle or end

2. To make my images metaphorical, not one-dimensonal

3. To make all of my images a consistent essay rather than a choppy set of pictures

17 Inspiring Images