Red Riding Hood is the one of the most popular children’s book’s but in this project she takes on a different look and character. In the original tale Red Riding Hood dies, I asked the question why? Only evil and bad characters die in children’s books don’t they? Also the illustrations from the original books were dark and quite ugly, this brought me to the idea that red riding hood is the evil character and she had a darker side which isn’t shown in the later, sugar coated versions. This led my project into a whole new interesting path of dark Red Riding.
Initially at the beginning of the project I was looking into the prettier side more traditional view of Red Riding Hood. However, after a tutorial and much more research my idea changed to the darker view. I’m glad I changed direction; it was much more interesting to look into and experiment with, than going with the traditional look which I have come to realise has been really over done. My view is different and has much more depth to it than the superficial view of her.
Also after receiving my pictures from my photographer the story sort of took a back seat and the imagery of the shoot took over, as I feel I got some really strong imagery. I was extremely happy with the photographs I got from the day. I wasn’t sure how the ripping of the dress and the adding of fur would look however I feel it turned out really well and I think the fur element is really interesting. Overall I feel me and my photographer worked really well together, he understood the look I was going for and so we were working on the same page, which is the most important thing when working with other people.
Mainly I am the least happy with my video. Throughout the project I was trying to find different ways to show my photo shoot as a video. I found it really hard to come up with an interesting way of doing this, with just still imagery. What I did in the end was what I felt was most appropriate for what I did and what I want to do in the future. Styling for magazine is what I want to do, however it was interesting to experiment with alternative forms of media and I have gained some basic imovie skills from this unit.
Initially at the beginning of the project I was looking into the prettier side more traditional view of Red Riding Hood. However, after a tutorial and much more research my idea changed to the darker view. I’m glad I changed direction; it was much more interesting to look into and experiment with, than going with the traditional look which I have come to realise has been really over done. My view is different and has much more depth to it than the superficial view of her.
Also after receiving my pictures from my photographer the story sort of took a back seat and the imagery of the shoot took over, as I feel I got some really strong imagery. I was extremely happy with the photographs I got from the day. I wasn’t sure how the ripping of the dress and the adding of fur would look however I feel it turned out really well and I think the fur element is really interesting. Overall I feel me and my photographer worked really well together, he understood the look I was going for and so we were working on the same page, which is the most important thing when working with other people.
Mainly I am the least happy with my video. Throughout the project I was trying to find different ways to show my photo shoot as a video. I found it really hard to come up with an interesting way of doing this, with just still imagery. What I did in the end was what I felt was most appropriate for what I did and what I want to do in the future. Styling for magazine is what I want to do, however it was interesting to experiment with alternative forms of media and I have gained some basic imovie skills from this unit.
