Image of Festival Time

On the new TV Channel called TV4U, I have created a programmed called "Festival Time" I used an image that I took myself.

This image was taken at the ballet festival in October 2009. Ballet Festivals are held at schools and in halls. This image is of my younger sister Hannah, I had permission off my sister and her best friend Charlotte to take a picture of them.

The Pose

In this photograph I positioned my sister in a classic ballet pose. The way her arms are positioned connotates that she is elegant, and calm. She is stood straight which connotates she is confident within herself. She has her head up high and is smiling which connotates she is proud and confident, and ready to dance.My sisters best friend Charlotte is in the background, I instructed her that she needed to wear a colour that connotes innocence, we found a white t-shirt, the white makes her stand out. I wanted to capture her as she did her hair, to show that doing your hair and make up goes on at dance festivals.

Make-Up and Clothes

I did my sisters make-up, I used dark colours on her eyes to define her eyes, her eye colour stands out. The dark colours I have used connotate youth. I learnt from looking at photographs that dark colours can connotate youth. The red lipstick I used, I used to make her lips stand out. The red lipstick shows she is smiling. Her hair is scraped back into a classic bun which denotates that she is a dancer. The purple tutu connotates youth and innocence. The purple makes her skin stand out. The purple defines how she has positioned her body. I placed my sister in a tut because this is about the dance festivals, and tutus usually connotate dancing.

Lighting

I used the lighting which was already there. The show is a reality show and reality show, shows what is really happening, and I wanted everything to seem natural, so I used the lights which were already there it seemed to work well.

I took the photograph with my digital camera at the October Dance Festival.