Test run

Idea: Cheating on her...


As part of our narrative image making unit, we were asked to create a narrative image of our choice. In a group of four we were required to create a story, come up with and idea for an image that has a narrative and shoot an image that relays that story to the viewer. We eventually settled upon an idea that based on cheating in relationships. So the story is that, boyfriend and girlfriend are meeting up, the boy has a bought his girlfriend flowers however she found out that he's been cheating on her. So she has a bigger surprise. She has a knife that already has blood on, which implies to the viewer that she's already killed someone. Maybe the person he's been cheating with...but it is still left to the viewer how they determine the story that is being told. 

Considering how to tell the story...

• Tell the story within a single image
• The characters would be a male and a female
• The props would be a kitchen knife and a bunch of flowers
• Mysterious smile on the female face and cheeky smile on the male face
• The characters would be stand straight in front of each other hiding the props behind their back.
• The image would be shot in landscape format using natural light
• The viewpoint would be levelled up with the subjects  and shot from beside them.

Here is the original image:

I had to do a bit of Photshop work with it to make it look like it's a scenery from a theatre drama scene. Actually, what I had to do is find a theatre stage image online with the right resolution so it wouldn't effect the size and the quality of our image. Also I had to download an image of a bloody kitchen knife and a bunch of flowers.

Here are the images from online:

Then, open Photoshop -> open new file -> select the four images -> Select the characters with 'quick selection tool' -> press cmnd C -> open a new layer and press cmnd V -> select the drag tool and pull the two selected characters over the theatre image -> select free transformation and arrange the size of the characters correctly to the size of the stage -> select the knife and the bunch of flower too and copy them too -> the props layers had to be under the characters layers......and finally select all of the layers and flatten the image and save

So here is the edited final version:

Although the image doesn't really look real, I think that the image has succeeded in portraying the message that it was intended to portray.