Proposal and Feedback

We were informed that we had to draft up a proposal and later that week we had a group tutorial where we discussed our peers ideas further. Here is my proposal:

Proposal - Exploring the influences that the music we listen to has on our fashion choices

For my final major project I will be exploring the relationship between clothing and fashion and how they influence each other. There are many different genres of music that influence the wearer to dress a certain way. This could be down to the way a famous person from said genre of music dresses or the fashion of a certain era.

I intend to photograph people whose clothing choices are clearly influenced by the music that they listen to. The way that I will show the relation between music and fashion is that I will be using an overhead projector to play a video onto the subject's face and backdrop, for example, post punk and a video of frequency waves (this would connect the subject to post-punk band Joy Division through their album Unknown Pleasures which features frequency waves on the front cover.)

I think that this will be an interesting idea to pursue as there are many genres of music that I will be able to explore and every outcome will be completely different to the others. It would also be interesting to see if the viewer(s) of my work will be able to make the connection between the genres and fashion styles.

I would not be able to use any video I pleased and what I personally thought related to the fashion, so I would have to ask my subjects about what they listen to and who they are influenced by amongst other things as not to create a stereotypical piece of work.

Below I have compiled a list of sub-genres of music, along with the main genre of music that they come from, that I have researched into and that I think would be interesting to explore.

    ⁃    Avant-Garde - Lo-Fi
    ⁃    Country - Psychobilly
    ⁃    Asian - South and Southeast Asian - Bhangra
    ⁃    Electronic - Drone Music
    ⁃    Modern Folk - Psychedelic Folk
    ⁃    Rock - Hardcore Punk - Post Hardcore

I intend to shoot my work in the studio with the aid of overhead projector. I will experiment using black and white backgrounds before I have the subjects come into the studio to see which would look best with the projections on it.

In my feedback it was recommended that I take a look at the following photographers:

James Mollison (Disciples)
Carlotta Cardana (Mods)
Stephen Gill
Charles Freger

It was also suggested that I look into typologies and to look into Erving Goffman.

Briefing

Our class was given a new briefing, of which is to prepare us for our final major project and to help us to organise and manage our time effectively.

I am to submit the following:

- A copy of my final developed research project proposal 
- A copy of my proposed timetable / planner for your forthcoming 40–credit Negotiated Major Photographic module 
- A PDF of my research Blog and a ‘Word’ document containing the address of your online Blog 
- A copy of my personalised professional practice pack