SOCIAL SCIENCES SHOT LIST

Below are sample shot lists frequently requested by clients working in the social sciences. These include sociology and psychology publishers, academic researchers, educational organizations, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and media outlets covering human behavior, community issues, and cultural trends.

HUMAN BEHAVIOR, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY

For all lifestyle categories, ethnic diversity is very important. Model releases are needed for all identifiable people.

    PHOTOGRAPHY

Education subjects

    Fitness subjects

    Every day examples of science principles

    People sweating or very cold

    People doing healthy activities

    People using technology

    Teenagers

    Diverse groups, Education,all ethnicities, all levels and subjects, Pre-K through adult education

    Bullying, exclusion, and alienation

    Kids interacting, excluding one

    Kids gossiping and excluding one

    “Name-calling” is bullying

    Physical bullying

    An extrovert in a social situation

    Introvert in a social situation

    Mixed teens hanging out together, enjoying themselves: outside after school, coffee houses, library, and school sports events.

    Working in teams doing homework assignments

    Multicultural daycare: all activities

    Pre-school through 1st grade classrooms with kids using “independent learning centers,” i.e. reading nooks, activity tables

    Pre-school through high school engaged in teamwork activities

    Clean images of school kids engaged in physical education

    Track and field, gymnastics, sports inside (basketball, volleyball)

    Field days

    Runners passing baton (distant and c/u of pass)

    Several runners at the start of a race

    Runner passing the finish line

    School-aged kids with trophies

    Computers

    Outside class, outside school

    In class

    Teachers

    Graduation

    Doing homework

    In libraries

    Raising hands

    Giving presentations

    Talking to the principal, counselor

    Parent-teacher meeting

    Families / Parents / All Ages / All Ethnicities

    Families cooking a meal together

    Families playing board games, card games together

    Parents helping with homework: all ages

    Families sitting down and having a meal together

    Families cleaning the kitchen together after a meal

    Kids of all ages doing chores

    Families or one parent with child/children reading out loud

    Families/or one parent, grandparents looking at family photo albums (in albums or on monitors)

    Families working on family trees

Family eating at home, picnics, barbeque

    Parent measuring height on the wall

    Family showing similar physical traits

    Extended families

    Parent as role model

    Children/teens watching parents fight

    Family watching TV

    Adult teaching cultural practice to a child

    Family working together

    Babies

    All situations

    Care

    Feeding

    Playing

    Crying

    Sleeping

    Toddlers

    Learning to walk

    Walking

    Eating

    Playing

    Sleeping

    Children

    Friends talking, walking, playing

    Communicating – phone, computer, talking, writing

    Picking apples

    At a pumpkin farm

    Reading

    Playing indoors, outdoors

    Building a snowman

    Playing coed sport, esp. soccer

    Playing any team sport

    Doing a solo sport

    Winter sports, sledding

    Playground, including monkey bars and a seesaw

    Biking, with helmets

    Rollerblading, with helmets

    Skateboarding

    Flying kites

    Hiking

    Washing hands

    Smelling (flowers), tasting (eating lemon and making a face)

    Exercising

    Swimming

    Children in rain or snow snowstorm

    Children with glasses

    Watching violence on TV

    Eating a healthy meal

    Working together in a community garden

    Child washing hands

    Teens

    Healthy, positive activities

    Same age, different height teen group

    Couples

    Communicating – phone, writing, talking, writing

    Teens in sports, solo or team

    Volunteers (meals-on-wheels, Big Brother, tutoring, soup kitchens, feeding the homeless, painting murals)

    Delinquent behavior

    Parties, malls, clubs, on street, outside class, outside school

    Teens working

    Teen doing chores

    Adults

    Communicating – phone, talking, reading, writing

    Exercising solo and in groups

    People being interviewed, exit poll, questionnaire

    Pregnant woman at 3, 6, & 9 mo, and not pregnant

    A couple sharing chores

    Speaking to a professional

    Seniors

    Communicating

    Socializing

    Eating

    Exercise

    Hobbies

    Additional Lifestyle

    Same person or family at different ages

    Speaker and audience have different views

    Ethnic neighborhoods

    Cooking

    Citizens being sworn in

    Skydivers

    Phobias

    Twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc.

    Geometric shapes

    Accidents

    Food groups

    Industry & Transportation

    Police work

    Asian factory workers

    Job interview

    Outsourced industry workers, Bangalore call centres

    Heavy traffic

    Citrus groves

    Bridges, all types

    Assembly lines

    Firefighters battling flames

    Airport security, long lines

    Rock concert

    High-speed trains

    Small business owner in an attractive shop

   Shopping Mall, crowded

    Shopping mall, empty

    Boiling water on a stovetop

    Flame under a pot

    Ice sculpture, esp swans

    Boomerang

    Burning Embers

    Carpentry tools

    Diamond Jewelry

    Lit candles

    Moorish sundials, all sundials

    Paint on a palette

    Star of David

SOCIAL SCIENCES VIDEO

Athletes in motion: track & field, sprinters, hurdlers, pole-vaulters, golf swing, weight lifter

Kids on a seesaw...going up and down and up and down!

Kids and adults playing tug of war