The briefing of the project gave me a lot of excitements, and a few ideas started coming through upon hearing the theme of the issue (art history) in which it is a possibility that we will be considered for, for Disorder Magazine. We were given the option to work in a small group of our choice or individually. I decided to be in a small group. I decided to work with peers of who's strengths and weaknesses I already new. This would mean that deciding who to be behind the camera and who should be the stylist for example would be a much simpler task. I also find it easier to critique and compromise with ideas when it's with friends you're working with rather than strangers.
The first thing we did in response was our own brainstorms. There are three of us in the group which I think is a really good number to divide tasks and to compromise ideas to make sure that they are unbiased. After completing our individual brainstorms, of which mine included, initial artists I like such as Claud Monet and Katsushika Hokusai, we found that two of us had liked Japanese artists or artists who work in a Japanese style. We looked into this a bit further. Something that was also written on my brainstorm that was greatly received by the group was 'dolls' and 'doll makeup'. After looking through the most recent issue of Disorder I thought that the mysterious creepy element of dolls or doll inspired makeup would fit in well with the aesthetic they have in the magazine. Japanese dolls was put forward as a response in the group, and we all wanted to research into this further. It was when we started thinking about location, did we think about the controversial nature of the idea and also the fact that it might feel like a 'piss take', something that it definitely wasn't intended to be.
While we were on the Japanese doll idea, we found that we were interested in shooting in a bath, with a slime engulfing the model. We really enjoyed the idea of shooting in a bath and something else that we took from the initial brainstorms was that we were all interested in water. We found another artist that we all loved called Alyssa Monk, who's cool toned colour pallet and vibe was something we found a great deal of inspiration in. It was Monk and Monet's work that we decided to take further and work with as inspiration. I love the painted flowers in Monet's pieces, and I think scattered in a full bath of water with the model close to being fully submerged would create a really interesting image. I would like to experiment with the styling of the model, for example in the first few images she could be styled in a transparent white flowing cloth, whereas in others she could be wearing hardly anything at all. When I think about the shoot I in visage not mush makeup, maybe just mascara and lipgloss, with flushed cheek. ideally the model will look pre pubescent, or in the midst of it, which will provide the back story of feeling as though your being submerged and drowning in hormones. For the hair, it could start with being pulled back, gradually getting looser and surrounding the face to provide a messier look. As far as initial image planning, only a few ideas have been discussed, including having shots that are zoomed into features and others that are zoomed out showing the bath environment.
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