Object Tutorial

In Today's Object Tutorial - my peers and I discussed our ideas for the Object shoot placing on the 28th
I knew what I felt strong about - something thats happening around the world - Child Abuse

My initial idea for the my shoot was to get objects such as ;

• Tennis ball - to represent the Earth
• Headlines around half the side of the globe and artificial flowers/butterflies on the other half of the globe to convey how the world is meant to be a magical and beautiful place for kids
• Soft teddy bear - to represent the child
• Duct tape on the mouth to show that they have 'no say' X
• Rose petals sprayed black to portray death

Title of my piece - Scarred hearts+souls 

Screen shot from movie The Lovely Bones

This idea came to me after looking at the work of Dan Tobin Smith - series of exploding teddy bears

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2008/november/kilimanjaroteddy-killers

• When looking at these images it 'provokes an emotional response' and you instantly think of children

However after listening to my peers thoughts and opinions, I realised how I need a solid idea in context, therefore after looking at the work of David Bate - his series of Bungled Memories - the simplicity conveyed in his work yet has a bold powerful meaning.
Bate stated in an interview  -“In the end, it’s about the meanings that people bring to the work and not what I impose in the pictures. I think it’s more of a dialogue or translation. If people understand the work very differently from the way I intended it, I think it’s one of the interesting things. Although I wish for certain frameworks and I try to give those as much as possible, I don’t think that an artist or a photographer has the rights to decide the meaning of the work that you give to the world.”
http://camerareality.com/2011/10/25/shaun-h-kelly-camera-reality-from-an-interview-with-david-bate/


This changed my idea completely into the style of Bate's. My intention was to portray to the audience that a child's world is turned upside down when abused verbally or physically. After speaking to my tutor Jonathan, a perfect idea to illustrate 'a child's world turned upside down' was thought of after our discussion.  We decided to show a the floor of a child's bedroom, but tilted upside down as the ceiling, therefore all the objects on a child's bedroom floor will be hanging from the carpet as shown below.

Materials required for shoot production ; 1metre board, soft toy ball, soft blanket, carpet, teddy, milk bottles