Blog Post #24

For my final project, I want to do some sort of multimedia storybook/storytime theatre project.

I would like to pick a classic fairy tale and tell retell it through photography. However, I would also like to rewrite the story myself and have someone reading the story aloud as the pictures show across the pages, instead of having it as text at the bottom.

I would also like to combine photography with some other medium, such as drawing or building the scenery myself, but I'm not 100% sure which of these methods would be best. I've been imagining having photographs of the characters on a fake/created fantasy background, like puppets on a state for example, but done with photography instead of puppets.

I know I want to do the story Little Red Riding Hood. For some reason it was the first story that came to mind when I was imagining this project, and even after I thought of some other childhood favorites, this one still stayed in my thoughts. I'm not exactly sure why either. I've always liked it, but for some reason it just seems like the right story. A secondary choice would be Hansel and Gretel, because that one seems like it would have some really fun visuals.

I want my project to have a lot of whimsy to it, and capture the day-dreamy feeling that fairy tales have, but also put a fresh twist on it somehow that will either shock viewers, make them laugh or think or something. I'm sure it would be fun to just do the story normal, but I think there are so many versions that I really should make it my own somehow.