Project Plan

Fairytales

The Photograph

For my photograph I'm going to take a series of models and make them get into costumes to do with Disney charters. But there is a twist, I am not going to use the traditional makeup or clothing I'm going to make it a lot more modern. For example if I was to take cinderella and the prince instead of picturing the shoe on a stair case or something it would be her taking it off because she couldn't walk in it or something. I think this is challenging the perspective by taking something so traditional and changing it. Its sort of like making it a comedy version but still dreamy. I am going to base the photographs on the Disney films:

• Cinderella
• Pocahontas
• Alice in Wonderland 
• Frozen 

The models I am using are mainly acting and musical theatre students. Im going to take my models to different places to take the photographs. Depending on the story and the scenes I come up with i will go to different places, but for all of them I am going to go into the studio or theatre and use a smoke machine to create a more dreamy effect. The photos in the studio would be more like advertising photographs. For some like cinderella I am going to go into a council estate as if cinderella has just broke up with someone and everything is wrong with her like then she comes across this boy that she ends up falling in love with but he also has connections and isn't just any boy.  Alice in wonderland will be trying to show a message about abusing drugs but in a comedy sort of way. Pocahontas I'm not sure what story to do with that yet. And frozen instead of the sisters loving each other them hating each other. I am going to hopefully use a ISO 100, aperture of around 4 and the shutter speed will vary. I am buying the costumes from charity shops and borrowing things off people. I am going to try and keep my budget at about £30. The makeup os going to be quite abstract like from below. I have been influenced by Rankin to do the over the top big makeup. The whole work is based on the photographer Annie Leibovitz and her work for disney. The places I'm going to take the photos include:

• Woods
• Studio 
• A council estate 
• bar
• field

I am going to need to bring certain equipment including a tripod, extra batteries, extra memory card and my models. I am going to be using various props for my shoots for example:

Cinderella I'm going to be using shoes and probably a bag.

Frozen I'm not going to use any props from what i know. 

Alice in wonderland I'm going to use a deck of cards, dice and a lamp tern with a candle thing. And for Pocahontas i don't think I'm going to use any. The message I'm going to try portray is that not everything ends with a happy ending. 

The charity shops.

My target audience for this is young adults and even maybe adults with problems. I am trying to get a point across through all of the pictures and through princesses. I used princesses because everyone looks up to them and if they saw a poster relating to issues within their lives it might potentially make them want to sort it out. I can see these images being made into awareness posters or magazines trying to influence people to see to the problems they have. They could be used for a charity or something like that. If I got employed doing something like this it could be good money because if people see you're work about they might ask you to do things like it etc.