Inspiration for our shoot

Before shooting, myself and Jacob were looking into artwork and even films that have used baths in them to get an understanding of what sort of framing we'd like to get for our scene with the bath and hoped to get some inspiration. We firstly looked into a photographer called Cindy Johnson who experimented in a shoot using self portraiture in milky bath water. Cindy goes on to discuss her shoot in further detail and goes on to tell about how she was originally supposed to be photographing someone else but at the last minute her model had to pull out. Cindy stated that it didn't phase her as she knew that she was going to do the shoot with or without the model and thus turned the piece into a self portrait series. The thing that drew us most towards Cindy's work is that of her framing. She seems to have created this overwhelming aura about her photographs through the use of where she positions the camera. She favours the use of high angled shots which gives off a lot of vulnerability especially when being sat in a bath tub which is usually a place where people tend to feel a lot of security. We couldn't quite find anything on why she was wearing the clothes that she was but we really like how they are transparent as it really adds to the aesthetic of the shoot.

Cindy Johnson

Cindy Johnson

Cindy Johnson

So Jacob and I didn't look at just one kind of medium, we also looked into different films that have bath scenes and looked at what sort of certain framing created certain moods and feelings. The first film that we looked at was Moonlight and noticed that using a full frame wide shot actually does a really good job of creating the sense of loneliness in a scene as it shows the protagonist in a very isolated and vulnerable light. Of course a lot of this scene is down to the lighting being very minimal which is something we had to think about when filming our own shoot so framing wise this is definitely something we wanted to achieve. Another film that we looked into was Inception. The bath scene(s) in this film are actually a lot more complex and we were completely aware that we wouldn't be able to film on the same sort of scale as they did with this film but we definitely took the scenes as inspiration. The main thing we wanted to take from the Inception was the feeling of submersion which I feel we achieved quite well. 

Moonlight (2016)

Inception (2010)