New Project

So we were given an item which is meant to kick start the ideas for this project. Our item being a really old board game, which kind of resembled monopoly.
Emma and I have not yet met to discuss the project with the other group members, however we have talked about some initial ideas from which i began to brain storm.
- chess board: checkered prints on the clothing, game board themed clothes and accesories
- in the game: massive playing cards, chess pieces etc so that model is shrunk into the game
- previous idea leading into alice and wonderland inspiration, shoots such as antm with the fairytale themes. however if im honest i don't like these photos at all, as i find them boring.
- This then leading shoots by annie leibovitz


- we then got to talking about the first of the three images above by Leibovitz, and we found that maybe this is the direction that we should go for. a giant model stuck in a small world. there are so many reference points where this has been done before, and so without trying to come across too clichéd, maybe we could really make a go of this idea and create some visually stunning images. Emma and I then discovered that there is a model village in Blackpool and maybe this could be the location for our shoot, providing we ascertain permission. below is some more inspiration linking with the size idea:
shirlainewhat i discovered about this photographer was that she has used the Blackpool model village herself in these photos which makes our goal seem even more achievable. However i feel her choice of clothing in these images terrible, and although u can see what she was trying to achieve with the highly saturated images, i just don't personally find this apealing. perticularly from a fashion and styling perspective.

Brian Edwards
- but then last night i had a new idea, i'd been thinking so much about the whole alice in wonderland idea and how to use this as an influence without becoming too over the top and actually having alice in the photos that i started thinking about other characters, for example the queen of hearts. HOWEVER, when i thought about this from a fashion point of view i realised that the only reference to the queen of hearts would be the title. e.g. the shoot could be completly open, but it would be mostly about the styling and so the clothes featured would be all about heart shaped prints, heart shaped bags and accesories as if it was a feature for a magazine on the newest trend. heart prints.
there for the title being 'The Queen of hearts'.
this idea alone sounds pretty lame but then i got to thinking about david lachapelle and courtney love.