Propose a New Shoot

Interested in working on a shoot? Great!

Start by reading this our proposal guidelines. A formal proposal need only be submitted if you are requesting funds for your shoot. If you are raising funds externally or doing a self-funded/no-budget production, we still recommend that you read the guidelines though, as they will help you to plan your shoot.

Once your proposal is complete, check out Read me Before you Shoot!

In order for your shoot to become part of the Global Lives Library, we'll need you to carefully follow our post-production guidelines.

For our first set of ten shoots from around the world, we created this Subject Selection Diagram to help us ensure that our subjects comprised a roughly representative sample of the human population. As this set of ten nears completion, we urge new teams to look at our completed shoots and propose subjects that add as much diversity as possible to our existing collection, in all of the same dimensions considered in the subject selection diagram. It is also a good idea to look at our subject occupations page to see the occupations of previous subjects and suggestions for future shoots.

Produced during our Brazil shoot by São Paulo's Museum of the Person, How to Videotape Someone for 24 Hours (08:37) is a video guide that will give you a good sense of what a shoot like this will look and feel like.

If you want to use the Global Lives website to recruit for your shoot, make a post in our forums under new shoots.