Proposal

Proposal

Working title: Behind closed doors.

After recieveing my starting image i had mixed feelings on how my circular narrative could develop. I had several initial ideas but the one that grasped me the most was a more sincere, deep and negative narrative. This was unusal for me because i'm not usually drawn towards this side of photography. 

My starting image (no.9) is of a closed door and the light from the door facing, which has been left ajar, is reflecting onto it. I wanted to create a narrative for both of the rooms and draw them in together to create a story, including the viewpoints from each character.

In the room that is slightly ajar  i want to show a police officer/person of high authority relaxing and watching tv after returning from work, and in the room opposite (closed door) a child being abused in some way by a parent/carer. Showing the narrative developing by changing between the viewpoints of each of the characters.

I want to keep the series in black and white to help the narrative flow and keep a consistency throughout the images. 

My first image would be my given image of the doors, my second would be of the police officer in uniform in a dark room with just the light of the television on, the officer completely relaxed and focused on the television. My third image would be of the opposite room with the closed door, in this image would be a child crouched on the floor in the corner and the parent standing over him/her with a stern look on his/her face. My fourth image would be of the knuckles of the father, cut, bruised and bleeding. My fifth image would be a close up of the childs face bruised and battered. My sixth image would be the same one of the officer sat in his chair watching the television totally unaware of the terrible situation developing across the hall and the final image would be the starting image of the door.

I feel this idea could become a campaign advert for childline/NSPCC etc, the message being that even people in authority who are there to help the public are sometimes unaware of abuse that is happening so close to them. This is why it is important for organisations like childline to have campaigns of this nature including visual posters with phone numbers, so that children have a lifeline.