Development work 2-Fairytales...

To develop from the photographers that I have responded to, I started to look at what my photographers had in common. They all have a fairy-tale, ethereal, and mysterious essence to them in that they are all well lit and planned shoots which gives them some kind of meaning.
To adopt this in my development work, I am going to research fairy tales which involve sleep for example sleeping beauty, and adapt different scenes from them to create my photographs. I want to make them look modernised as if it's not dressed or set up as a scene from a fairy tale but just normal occurrences for example in pyjamas but in strange and uncommon sleeping environments such as a forest or an empty field.

Although these photos will be symbolic of the fairytales and who they are adopted to modern life and the idea of sleeping in uncommon environments along with being put in places to sleep rather than choosing to sleep there, it will also incorporate the idea that often within our dreams we can see things that are familiar but feel different or uncommon to us within the dream and how we often imagine ourselves differently and in different places when we dream almost like a fairytale rather than the reality when we wake up.

SLEEPING BEAUTY...

SNOW WHITE...

For this shoot I will start by photographing the model with the apple in her hand as she sleeps to replicate the original fairy tale. I will then develop these photos by incorporating an alarm clock to represent the apple in the story of snow white. 
The photos will be taken in a forest to symbolise the theme of sleep in uncommon environments. This will show the idea that she has been put there and the clock has been put there to wake her up at a certain time which suggests that she was placed there to sleep and she wouldn't usually choose to sleep there. 
I chose to use snow white as it allows a more ethereal and mysterious element to my work. A lot of the photographers I have researched look at the darker side of sleep and tend to use very unlikely environments and surroundings to be asleep in. I wanted to stay with that theme when I started developing my work, but incorporate my own ideas throughout. 

I desaturated the images to make them appear less vibrant to add to the eerie mood of the story behind them. I wanted the object in her hand to be the focal point, hence why it is in the foreground of the image, so that the viewer is drawn first to the object, then to the sleeping girl.