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Thirteen Years Old
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Landscape, Portrait, Square; colour or B&W
Deadline: Tuesday, July 9, 2013; 12:00 GMT
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This is a massive picture call for an educational publisher, all based around 13-year-old children. You must beg, borrow or buy some to fulfill these stringent requirements, but please make sure you have model releases for all images featuring children.
Google type aerial map of Melbourne, Australia and part of Southbank. The following places must be visible as they will be marked with pins and accompanied by either pop-up labelled photos
Melbourne Cricket Ground stadium from above
Federation Square
Eureka Tower
A close up of a dinosaur skeleton at Melbourne Museum
The main gate at Luna Park theme park
Roller coaster at Luna Park theme park
An Australian girl aged 13. She will have a speech bubble saying 'Welcome to my city!'
A panoramic photo of the Namba area in Japan lit up at night and/or with young people hanging out.
The Bunraku theatre puppets and their puppeteers with covered faces
The big wheel on top of the HEP Five Shopping Centre
Two signs showing New York - one NYC and the other New York in Texas.
Photo of teen boy in rural surroundings standing next to New York sign – could also be a Photoshop mock up or collage
Photo of teen boy standing next to urban New York sign
Head and shoulders shot of a 13-year-old Australian boy
Head and shoulders shot of a 13-year-old Japanese girl
Head and shoulders shot of a 13-year-old Italian boy
Head and shoulders shot of a 13-year-old American girl
Russian boy aged about 13 with black hair. Could be sitting at his computer as though chatting with his cousin online
Photo of Griboyedov Canal with the Church of our Saviour on Spilled Blood (St Petersburg, Russia) in the background.
An appetizing pizza
A Japanese teenager (about 13) doing homework at home. It needs to be dark, so light should be artificial. The photo needs to illustrate do my homework.
A Canadian schoolboy or girl (about 13) sitting up in bed with his/her pyjamas on. The photo needs to illustrate wake up.
A schoolboy or girl (about 13) from Chile arriving at school – preferably going into the school building, but it could be he/she arriving in class. The photo needs to illustrate get to school.
A Turkish schoolboy or girl (about 13) getting on a bus to go home from school, or on a bus already. The photo needs to illustrate going home.
Two photos showing Tromsø in Norway to establish the type of town it is and its location and climate.
The Northern Lights (this is to demonstrate the phrase 'The Northern Lights')
A shot of Seville at dawn
A shot of Auckland at dusk
A small photo of the Addu Atoll part of the Maldives to show how beautiful it is and establish it as an island destination
A photo of a Spanish-looking girl of 13 or 14 years old. She's talking about her typical school week, so a school-related shot would be appropriate
A close up of a boy. The boy should be about 12/13 and look cool. He’s in his room, but this shouldn’t be visible too much
12 small photos. These need to look like stills from a video that students will listen to. They need to look like they’re in the same flat and in the rooms indicated. The photos are as follows: In a kitchen: 1 cooker, 2 washing machine, 3 cupboard, 4 frid
A photo of two teenage twin brothers together (about 13 years old). If at all possible, one should look more serious and responsible, and the other a little naughty, with messy hair. They should look happy, though, so it’s clear they get on well.
Photos of four bedrooms. These should look as if they’ve been taken on phones or other mobile devices. The rooms need to match the descriptions in the texts provided below. All teenagers about 13 years old, 2 girls and 2 boys - names provided below.
Photo 1: Kara. This room should look extremely neat and tidy, with everything well organised. It should also be quite minimalist, without no, or few, posters on the wall. (Text: My room's really organised. Everything has its place.)
Photo 2: Ida. This room should look quite untidy, perhaps with things put on shelves in a disorganised manner, and stuffed under the bed, etc. There should also be one or two things on the bed and floor. (Text: My room's quite untidy, but I know exactly where everything is)
Photo 3: Dean. This room should look extremely messy and untidy, with things over the floor and bed, including dirty clothes. (Text: I can never find things because my room's really untidy.)
Photo 4: Diego. This room should be quite big and tidy, and there should be signs of creativity – lots of posters on the wall, the walls painted in non-standard colours, and a guitar visible, perhaps on the bed. (Text: I like changing my posters)
Four passport-sized photos of the four teenagers from the bedrooms above to match the texts and their bedrooms; two girls and two boys. These should be varied in terms of style and racial origin, but they should all be about 13-years old.
Photo of a classroom or part of a school to be used as a background.
The Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, London. A main photo should show the running track leading to the school building.
Photo of American teenage girl aged 13 preferably in outdoor setting.
Someone doing a survey in the street, asking a teen (male or female aged about 13) questions about their schoolday and making a note of their answers.
Top of school desk with various objects on it such as an exercise book, a pen, pencil, dictionary, a phone, etc.
Schoolkids (about 13 years old) in a classroom. Each student will have a colour transparent mask added indicating the type of student they are as in the example
Montage of photos to be part of a questionnaire from a school magazine entitled 'Classmates - things we do and like' showing the following:
A school class (kids aged about 13) doing maths or geography
A student (aged about 13) listening to music
Someone (aged about 13) playing a violin or other classical instrument
View from house window with rain outside
Teens (about 13) playing board and/or video games indoors at home
An outdoor concert with people sitting to listen to music.
People waiting for a film to start at an open air cinema.
Teenage friends meeting at a funfair, laughing.
Crowd at a stadium watching football match on giant TV screen.
Group of teenagers (or one) in outdoor situation, using phone, with headphones.
Teenager waiting for bus reading book.
Photo of person or people singing ‘Singing in the Rain’ with umbrella(s) open as if performing on a station concourse.
Split photo of two teen boys (aged about 13) talking to each other on phones. One is studying at home, the location of the other shouldn’t be obvious.
Several photos from a science museum, merging together:
Someone listening to an audio tour with headphones
An adult addressing a group of teenage schoolkids (aged about 13)
A coffee shop
A gift shop
A lift
Stairs
A radio microphone
An illuminated ‘on air’ radio sign.
The girl band Red Bandana.
Photo of teenager (about 13) holding or playing classical acoustic guitar
Head shot of a thirteen-year-old girl
Photos showing the following activities and featuring age-appropriate teens:
— a theme park ride
— a cinema
— a pizza restaurant
— a party
Photo of a school orchestra giving a concert or in rehearsal
Photo to represent school lunch in the USA. Text provided for your information: 'Our class is doing a project about school lunches around the world. Read other students’ descriptions and add a description of your school lunch. Don’t forget to send a photo
Photo to represent school lunch in Korea. Text provided for your information: 'Dae-Ho, Korea. I like the food at my school but we don’t get many different things. We usually get soup, some vegetables with rice and a lot of salad. We don’t get much meat.'
Photo to represent school lunch in France. Text provided for your information: 'Mathilde, France. We have salad or a vegetable dish, and then meat with sauce and potatoes or fish with lemon. My favourite is mussels with chips. Then we have yoghurt or something."
One photo with a healthy packed lunch in a plain-looking lunch box. In the text this refers to Denmark but it could be any similar healthy packed lunch with brown bread and fruit and vegetables. Mikkel, Denmark
Teen boy (about 13) coming home and walking in with a rucksack or sports bag. He's just arrived home from school or training and he's hungry and is asking Mum what's for dinner
Separate photographs of teens (mix of boys and girls aged about 13) sleeping in different places: (Ph5.12) in bed (covered up), (Ph5.13) over a desk, (Ph5.14) on the school bus, (Ph5.15) on the sofa, etc
Teen boy (about 13) playing the guitar
Photos to illustrate the following situations:
Somebody staring at a text message in horror. Text: You get a text message on your phone from a friend. It starts Hi Jo, Jem is so lazy! I hate lazy people! …’ But Jem is your name – Jo is another friend. You get the message by mistake.
Somebody looking at a computer screen with worried expression. Text: You write a silly personal story on your blog late at night. The next day you delete it. But it’s still on the internet when you search.
Friend on the phone looking angry. Text: You put a funny photo of a friend on your social networking page. The next day your friend phones – and your friend doesn’t think it’s funny.
Photo of home-made tacos filled with beef, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and cheese. Please note that these must be Mexican tacos which are generally not the crispy hard shell tacos that you get in the UK/US but soft small tortillas.
The followings photos all focus on the players’ eyes, so the images should be rectangular, but need to include some clues as to the sport.
A 13-year old girl playing hockey
A 14-year old boy of Indian origin playing tennis
A 13-year-old girl playing badminton.
The edge of a playing board. It should be a Monopoly board or compatible with a Monopoly board, but we shouldn’t see any of the squares. By the board we see two dice and two or more pieces that players will use.
Teenagers (about 13) playing rugby.
Teenagers (about 13) bowling.
A photo of two tennis players at a major competition. We see them from behind, carrying their bags as they enter or exit the stadium so we don’t know who they are, but the photo makes it clear they are top players.
A photo from the first or third dialogue.
An old-looking colour photo of Judit Polgar from when she was 15 (she was born on July 23 1976). She shouldn’t be older, and could be younger). She should be playing chess.
An old-looking colour photo of Michael Jordan, taken before 1999.
These should be photos that look like the same male person …. Ideally including fun photos from the 50s/60s:
Baby about 6 months or younger.
Child about six or seven
Teenager about 14
Young adult: mid twenties
Middle aged person, mid forties
Pensioner, about 80
Small photos of the following:
1 a knife
2 a fork
3 a spoon
4 bread
5 cheese
6 coffee beans
7 sugar
8 a mouth with good teeth
Close up of a young teenager, London born, about 13 years old, wearing ‘2000’ glasses for the Millennium celebrations.
A photo of the London Eye
A contemporary colour version of the Mayan Calendar
Three portrait photos of teens (aged about 13):
A shy British girl
An outgoing Polish boy
A sporty Spanish boy
A photo of a sign indicating distances to places in different directions
Young ecotourists in the Monteverde Cloud Forest
Empire State Building in fog
A gang of boys having fun in the rain at Alchemy festival.
Le Marais under the snow, Paris, France.
Looking out of a tent at approaching rain clouds, Umtanum Ridge, Washington USA
A shot of the Bosphorus.
The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
The Blue Mosque, Istanbul
A museum or other attraction in Istanbul that’s clearly not the Bazaar or Mosque
Photo of Sara to accompany blog entry – preferably taken in Istanbul. She's Canadian, aged about 13 and was in Istanbul with her family on holiday, so a holiday shot would be appropriate.
Photo of view from hotel window on rainy day as if taken by a teenager on holiday. No swimming pool must be visible.
An old map of the world from the 1920s.
Archive photo of Palle Huld arriving at Liverpool Street Station on January 19, 1928.
Tintin and Snowy (You must have clearance rights. We don't think you'll get them)
The cover of the Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days.
Photo of a teenage girl called Laura (aged about 13) answering questions in a quiz show.
Inset of a photo from one of the film versions of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
Picture of Tintin and Snowy or cover from the Tintin book ‘Prisoners of the Sun’
A map of Mexico with a Google-map style photo pinpointing Mexico City and showing an image from the city preferably of the big flag in the Zócalo.
A small group of teens (aged about 13) posing for a photo at a shopping centre. It’s clear that one of the group is taking the photo, so this should look like a group of real teens and not a posed publicity photo.
A photo of the shop window or inside of the following shops which should all look as if they could plausibly come from the shopping centre in the main photos (so any language and pricing should be the same).
— a department store
— a clothes shop
— a sports shop
— an electronics shop
— a toy shop
— a bookshop
A photo of two teen boys of about 13 years old looking at things in a shop. It should be clear that they’re weighing up a possible purchase and giving each other advice.
A photo of a teenage girl of 13 or 14 obviously waiting for someone at or just outside a shopping centre.
A photo of a radio presenter in a studio.
A photo of a kid and parent listening to the radio in a car, if that can be clearly conveyed.
Photo of some healthy-looking fast food which will be used as part of an ad, the sort you get given in the street to promote a shop, in this case a fast-food restaurant: burgers, chips, etc
A close up photo of two teenagers of about 13-years old talking. It should be clear that one is speaking, and that the other isn’t really listening to what he or she is saying.
Two photos taken at the recording situation of the actors in the two different scenes.
photo of cutting edge electronic goods. This will be used as part of on ad, the sort of ad you get given in the street to promote an electronics shop. You need to make sure that the photo won’t date.
A photo of the Diwali celebrations in Trafalgar Square, London. Lights and candles should be visible in the photo, and also flowers if possible. There could be a focus on people dancing/performing or on the audience, but it must be clear that this is an Indian festival.
Candles
A photo of the Notting Hill Carnival, London. We need to see a costume or costumes but with no naked flesh. A close up of a teenager in a really flamboyant costume with feathers etc. would be good.
A photo of the Maslenitsa celebration in Trafalgar Square London. This could be a shot of Cossack dancers leaping in the air or something similar. Or a focus on a food stall with borscht, bliny/ pancakes etc but it must be clear that this is a Russian festival.
A photo of the St Patrick’s Day parade in London. It should be clear that this is a parade. We should see people in green costumes and hats, and green make-up if possible.
A photo of the Chinese New Year celebrations in the streets of London after the parade. We should see a Chinese dragon or lion dance and lots of red decorations – lanterns, banners, flags etc.
Fireworks display in Leicester Square
The Mazey Day parade in Penzance Cornwall showing one of the huge paper maché figures – preferably carried by a teenager or with teenagers watching
A detail from a St Patrick Day’s parade. It should be something like a giant Leprechaun/unusual costume or a funny float etc.
A photo of someone dressed up as a pirate. They should be in full, authentic-looking pirate dress and not simply wearing a fancy-dress costume, and be looking at the camera in a fake menacing pose. The designer will be adding a speech bubble.
A photo of a young teacher addressing a class of teenage students in the classroom. They should be 13/14 years of age. They're discussing World Food Day.
A close-up photo of two 14-year-old girls. They are talking together. One is disappointed that not many people showed up for her birthday party and the other is trying to persuade her to see things in a positive way.
Kind regards,
Jacqui Norman
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