Print Productions Planning // Shoot Moodboard

In my print productions, my rough sketches so far all incorporate use of photography and staging in their designs. In order to collect the materials I need for the print production and to hopefully gain some more inspiration, I have arranged a photo-shoot and now need to plan it out.

The general theme I'm going for with the cover is the alienation caused by our increasing use and reliance on communicative technology. I plan to show two characters ( female, due to the woman's idealised and objectified position in society) who are supposedly intimate (maybe holding hands/embracing) but distanced, their faces obscured by technology. This obscurity may come from something as simple as a screen blocking their faces, to a digital glitch breaking an element of a digital file. For this I have booked two models who will act for the photoshoot, and have given them instructions to wear suits with large amounts of jewellry. I have chosen this kind costume because I feel it accurately connotes the mood of impersonality and loss of identity (through the suit) and also the vanity and superficial materialism  (through the jewellery) perpetrated by technology. 

Whilst thinking about these issues, and to help inspire myself, I created a moodboard of the vague aesthetics and themes I wished to explore on the album cover. This reflects the general mise en scene I wish to create and some of the inspiration I have incorporated. 

I will post the results from the photoshoot shortly.