Draft Proposal Todays Tales

Todays Tales

I will be producing a series of editorial style images portraying fables represented in this day and age.

Over the last year or so I have enjoyed creating 

narrative imagery for editorial pieces and used a lot of digital manipulation with tools such as photoshop to achieve my final images. I like to photograph images that have an aesthetic value and I want to show the viewers that we all live in our own personlised fairy tale or fable.

My influences are from varied sources. Tom Hunter inspired me in particular some time ago when featured his work in a previous unit. Please click her to view my post. Tom Hunter I like the way he incorporated masters paintings into his unheralded stories images, bringing the scenes of these paintings into today's currant affairs. 

I will obviously be researching old fairy tales and fables, carefully selecting which ones will realistically incorporate today's currant affairs and modern life scenarios. I will be using my Pinterest board to pin any useful sources of information such as children's books, paintings, photography, movies (hansel & gretel).

I will assess each story with a mind map of some sort. it will start with the title of course then I will ask a series of questions such as 

• who are the characters?
• What is the moral behind the story?
• What are the main signified and signifiers and will I be able to use something similar in my shoot?
• Can the scenario be easily adapted to todays day and age?

Jack_and_the_Beanstalk_by_Ahvia

I will be shooting my images with a dslr so I have the option to shoot in raw. This will allow me to edit the images without taking quality away. I may need to manipulate and impose backgrounds etc to achieve the final images so I will need to research and practice these techniques in photoshop. I will also be using the specialist studio/location unit to achieve the desired affects and final images. I will be presenting these images in a series so I will to put some thought into the format and print and ensure each image will be able to be presented in the same manner. All images will have to flow from one to another naturally. Using similar tonal values, colours and textures etc will encourage this.