Group meeting!

We finally had a group meeting after several failed attempts which has helped put my panic to rest. Although Steph and Danielle couldn't make it, i still met up with Emma and Rachel which is a start.
I felt the meeting went brilliantly, as I really wanted to get underway with the project and leave the meeting with a clear idea of what we were going to do.
We decided that the idea of shooting at a model village would more than likely be unsuccesful, and apart from this it would be not pushing the creativity boundaries as far as possible aswel as being rather cliche. instead we are going to build our own set using minimal props to make suggestions to the narrative, something which had been mentioned in earlier lectures. We began by creating a narrative for the photostory which would be basicly about a girl from a normal family but who is gigantic (original inspiration) and how she goes about her daily life. the story will focus on how she doesn't fit in to society, litrally and metaphorically. The family of the girl will be styled in normal everyday steriotypical clothing, however the girl will be dressed in these amazing dresses which ofcourse she makes herself because of her size.

Ideas for Shots

1. model looking through the living room window to her normal sized family sat in the living room watching tv.
2. a washing line with clothes on with the girls ancles stood next to the line (mini pegs, barbie clothes on line)
   
3. girl getting ready to go out, using mini hair brush and make up brushes in a mini mirror
   
4. Picnic in the park
5. girl drinking from a small cup
6. girl holding her hand out with her boyfriend stood in the palm of her hand
   

these shots will be shot both in the studio and on location. for the photos which include the normal sized people they will be shot in the studio and then resized to fit into the main images for example the picnic scene so that the contrast in size is visable.

A film that links closely with our projcet is Dogville. it is this idea that a scene can be created and a stroy can be told but there doesnt have to be an actual set or location, just the suggestion of things. so this is why we are not going to build a lving room for example in the studio, we are however going to suggest a living room using chairs, tables, tv, window frame etc.another thing that i thought could help with our shoot was the use of a tilt shift lens, i don't know a whole lot about them or even if i could get hold of one, but i remember a few years ago i found out about them and saw some of the effects that can be created by them. this being the effect to make things look almost like model villages. here is an example:
The shallow depth of field created by the tilt however could be digitally created using post production, ofcourse it is never going to look brilliant in comparison to the real thing but this is always a possibilty to consider when editing the images. Also in adition to this, maybe we don't need to be so drastic in the bluring, we could use this a basis that we could have a fair amount of gaucsian blur in a couple (not all) of the images.

we are meeting again as a group next monday.