For my story, I had a lot of different ideas, but the one I settled on that may be the best visually would be covered next weekend. I plan on spending a weekend with my girlfriend for our anniversary, and we will have a city exploration day.
I plan on going with her to different restaurants, site-seeing places, and just traveling around Manhattan and Brooklyn. I hope to tell a story that revolves around love and exploration. So the visuals will feature us in a variety of places, in a variety of styles, from riding Citi bikes at a park to eating at a rooftop restaurant.
I think this story would be an interesting story considering the time we are in right now, under COVID restrictions, has limited not only plenty of human interaction but also for some couples a long time to be apart. Since she will be returning to NY from another state for the first time in months, I hope this story of our reunion, as well as hers with NY, will be a breath of fresh air from the ongoing unrest and sadness in the world, through strong and beautiful images.
The other idea I have also revolves around something taken away from us during COVID. Since social distancing was put in place, many people are limited in their recreational activity with other people outside, for example not being able to play basketball in the park with others in fear of COVID. Since my group of friends and I have all been cleared of COVID testing negative, I think a nice story would also be us reuniting with our pastime and capturing images of us playing ball for the first time in months.
I think this would be an interesting story because again, people have been stuck inside and limited to what they can do outside out of fear and restrictions. This may be a nice break from everyone just being on their phones or watching tv inside all day, and capturing my friends in motion playing the game they love may create some quality photos, both in motion, close up, and have nice lighting from the sun.
I really like both of these ideas, and I’m not sure if one has to be accepted for me to do it. If I had to choose one for the assignment I’d probably choose the reunion/anniversary adventure in NYC just for the variety of possible photos. However, I might end up capturing some pick up basketball games with my friends just for myself for fun.