Revisiting my proposal

I wanted to take a look back at my proposal from Advanced Research Strategies and see what has changed and how this project has progressed.

My Introduction/ Research Statement...

'The theme of my idea is that women/models feel drowned by society and the pressures to look a certain way and be somebody your not. I want to do in depth research into this and get responses from real women around me and use their views to aid my project.

I want to use these responses to shape the style and form of each image, so if one response is that a women feels drowned by the pressures to look a certain way I could use the underwater idea for that but I will not solely base the project on 'underwater photography'. I feel this will work a lot better as a whole series of images all underwater could get boring for the viewer and the difference in responses would not be as clear. I could maybe ask a simple question such as 'describe in one word the way the media/society makes you feel about yourself as a women?' and use those singular words to illustrate each image.

I also like the idea of re-enacting popular images in the media that make these women feel under pressure by portraying how these images make women feel.

I want to achieve a series of images which will be displayed in a gallery or a magazine.'

The idea of the women/models has changed as i am now focusing on teenage girls aged between 14 and 18 years old. Through the survey i have accomplished getting real responses from my target audience and they have heavily aided and influenced my project.

I still want to use the singular words to form each image although this has formed difficult. By using props etc to stylise the words into the photographs so for example 'Drowned' being underwater, it was commented on that this would be too literal. Because of this i have decided to take a more subtle approach and photograph the girls in their bedrooms. Your bedroom says a lot about you and your feelings as it is a very personal space. Especially in your teenage years you seem to express yourself more on the walls of your bedroom with posters, quotes etc. Even with this i still faced the dilemma of how to incorporate the singular words. As the survey was done anonymous when i asked a couple of the girls which words they used they said they couldn't remember, i think it was more a case of that they didn't want me to know. So i am now stuck with how this can be added in without knowing which girl said which word. 

My aim for the images is still the same and i am thinking about how i want to print and present the images for the final exhibition.