okay so as i was looking over my ideas i found that a lot of them were really just me wanting to use different techniques to create pictures but that there wasn't much meaning behind them. i want my concentration to show a story or narrative but each photo to be able to stand on it's own as well. i thought that the "7 stages of grief" could provide for these conditions. i like to use kind of darker imagery in my photos so this theme fits well and i think that each stage will provide with a wide spectrum of ways that it can be portrayed. here are the stages:
1) shock and denial
- this one can be a portrait capturing peoples' really shocked facial expressions and pain
-can have one of shock and one of denial
-this can also double as my other idea of showing the details of people's faces like with the freckles, etc.
2) pain and guilt
-can do one of pain and one of guilt
-this can be a really intense emotional one where a person is physically hurting from the emotional pain
-show a person doubled over in a private place and crying
-dramatic lighting
3) anger and bargaining
- really dramatic, throwing a chair into a pool and capturing the water splashing up
-cracking mirrors and showing muscles bulging and only parts of the face such as the veins in the forehead or the eyes
4) "depression", reflection and lonliness
-show the person in a public place surrounded by people but still feeling disconnected and distant, not enjoying life
-they could be at a water park, beach or town center
-staring though everyone like they don't see them, too deep in their thoughts
-becoming distant from friends
5) the upward turn
-being calm and looking serene and just being neutral
6) reconstruction and working though
-trying really hard to go on with the normal daily routines
-reconnecting with friends
7) acceptance and hope
-seeing the silver lining in each new day
-being genuinlly happy even though there is a missing presence in their life (such as the person they have lost)

the same person does not have to be in all of these photos
i would like to use different people because i want it to represent the stages themselves, not that specific persons' grief journey.