Phobia Project

A. A phobia is an extreme or irrational fear of something.

B.

1.  Anuptaphobia- fear of staying single
2.  Astrophobaia- fear of stars or celestial space
3.  Bibliophobia- Fear of books
4.  Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
5.  Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love.

C. It's most likely that most of the figures present in my images will be people with some form of disgust present in body language; facial expressions. The objects present will also be what the phobia is about. Like for for bibliophobia, books will be present in the image.

I prefer horizontal formatted images, and the lighting will work along the fear to give the image a feeling or mood. For example, if I was to use necrophobia for my image, then I would probably give the image a darker tone.

I feel like background will be important as well; if I was to use anuptaphobia I feel like I would set a couple in the background to show that the person who fears being single is looking at this couple, wishing they were in a relationship as well.

Reactions, expressions and body language will be very important because it needs to be present that the person in the image seems scared of what ever is before them, this cant be done without good expressions and body language that indicate fear. 

For anuptaphobia, I feel like I would wanna to shoot outside, where it is easier to see couples walking around. I would include the person who has this phobia looking fearful and sad about the fact that this couple is happy and they aren't. The couple would be set in the background, possibly blurred out with the antuptaphobic person in the foreground.

For Bibliophobia, I would see someone looking at a stack of books fearfully. The books before them could be school issued to show the trouble for these people and how they have to work with these books even though they are scared of them. 

For philophobia, I still haven't thought much to it, but I feel this would to pertain to someone trying to not fall for someone; maybe they've already fallen for someone and has to work through that and their fear. What is their reaction to having already done what they feared to do. 

D. I feel I would wanna use tilt for bibliophobia to make a person feel/look small when they are presented before some books.

I feel like I would want to work with black and white photography for Anuptaphobia, possibly by making (said) single person black and white, while our couple is in colors.

I want to possibly work with perspective on the philophobia shoot just to give it an extra flare in case the composition isn't the best it should be.