Storyboards

Now that I have collected ideas for how to portray each sin, I have drawn out some storyboards of how I imagine my images to look. This will also help me decide if my concepts will actually work as a photographic image, if they are feasable and if they have the right balance and composition.

Gluttony: I am going to stick with the idea of having my model look as if she is gorging on paper food, as this really highlights peoples hunger and need to devour paper.

Lust: I am keeping with the idea of having my model lying down in a bed, as if the viewer is witnessing the aftermath of a lustful encounter. She will be sprawled out and grabbing onto newpaper bedding, to highlight the desire and longing for the tactileness of paper.

Wrath: For this sin, I want to keep the props quite simple and focus on my models expression of anger and rage. By showing my model tearing up sheets of newspaper, this will highlight society's destruction of paper and the planet's natural resources.

Sloth: I want my model to be sat with a dazed expression in amongst piles of disgarded newpaper, to highlight society's carelessness and disregard for wasting paper.

Greed: For this sin, I want my model to be covered in paper money and to be really showing it off to highlight society's excessive need for paper.

Pride: I have tried to depict society's obsession and love of paper in this image, with paper plastered all over the walls and broken mirrors to reflect the vanity, however I don't think this image is very strong or clear at the moment.

Pride: This is another idea I could use to portary this sin. The idea will be to have my model wearing a massive headdresss constructed from paper, as if to highlight the notions of big-headedness, over-inflated ego that are associated with pride and vanity. I want this to be a shot of the head and upper torso as if to show that she is wearing nothing else but the headdress and is taking pride in showing off herself whilst being adorned with paper.

Envy: I have rethought this image and have decided to portray envy by showing my model defacing images of beautiful women in magazines, as I want to highlight the jealousy and spitfulness of this action.

Photo shoot concept

After compiling all this research on the seven deadly sins and the creative uses of paper, I have brainstormed my ideas on concepts I could use to portray each of the seven deadly sins. Here are my ideas so far:

Lust:
Model lying in an unmade bed/ smudged lipstick/ messed up hair/ wearing sexy lingerie/ focus on sexual part of the body/overhead shot/ pink or red aura/ bedsheets made from newspaper/ red satin sheetes/ grabbing onto bedsheets.

Pride:
Model looking in mirror/ broken mirrors/ vanity/ peacock feathers/ big headedness/ paper headdress/
feathers/ diamonds/ close up shot/ showing off/ looking smug.

Greed:
Model lying down covered in paper money/ wearing dress made out of paper money or one big note/ money falling from the sky/ excess/ diamonds/ glitter/ sequins/ dripping in diamonds/ jewellery made from paper/ hungry expression.

Wrath:
Model tearing up paper/ angry expression/ hard, edgy look/ big, pointy shoulders/ destruction of paper surrounding model/ massive pair of scissors/ burning paper/ flames in foreground/ paper flying everywhere.

Gluttony:
Model lying or sitting down surrounded by food/ Marie Antoinette style/ mixture of real and paper food/ gorging on food/ food smeared on face/ sticky fingers/ oversized paper mache food/ table covered with piles of food.

Sloth:
Model sat on floor/ doll like pose/ head in hands/ yawning/ dazed expression/ scrunched up paper surrounding her/ create a dream like world/ feathers in hair/ feathers falling around her/ bubbles floating in the air/ bin overflowing with paper/ bored, tired expression.

Envy:
Model kneeling down on floor/ surrounded by open magazines of beautiful models/ jealous, envious expression/ using marker pen to deface models in magazines/ sticking needles in their eyes/ newspaper vodoo doll.

Photo shoot location

I am pretty certain that I want to use a studio to shoot my photoshoot, as I can't think of any locations that would be able to match all of the seven deeadly sins and that would not interfere with the props and the communication of each sin.
I know Zoe is very keen for photo shoots to take place at the Paper Eaters event, however I don't think this would be ideal for what I am trying to achieve. Transport to London would be an issue as my model Georgia, would have to travel from Worcester and my photographer Jackson would be coming from Falmouth in Cornwall. There is also the logistics of taking all the props to London, some of which are quite fragile, therefore this has helped me make the decision of using a studio as the location of my photo shoot. I feel my whole team will be more confident and comfortable working in these surrondings and therefore will hopefully create a stronger, more polished outcome.

Photographer: Jackson Wise

I worked with Jackson on my previous photo shoot and at the time he offered to be my photographer if I was evere planning on doing another photo shoot. By having Jackson working with me on this photo shoot, I have managed to create a team that I feel confident to work with, as we all know each other and get on well and are happy to take my directions as to creating my overall concept and final outcome.

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Model: Georgia Grace Palmer

I have decided to use the same model I worked with on my last photo shoot, as I was really pleased with how the previous photo shoot went as she was able to deliver the exact look I wanted to achieve. Georgia just so happens to be my sister's best friend and also a successful model with top modelling agency, Models 1. Georgia has been modelling for around four years now and has done lots of top editorial work and also a number of campaigns for fashion brands. I feel this photo shoot will be quite demanding for my model as a degree of acting and using facial expressions is involved, and so I feel really lucky to be working with someone who is such a professional and always takes such beautiful photographs.

Dazed Digital presents Lady Gaga

These images are behind the scenes shots taken from the filming of, Dazed Digital presents Lady Gaga. Styled by Nicola Formichetti, Gaga is wearing shoulder pads designed by Petra Storrs. Petra's creative paper fashion piece fits Gaga's ecentric style perfectly. I feel like many of Gaga's style attributes displayed here compliement what The Girls want to achieve with their paper eaters look. I like the idea of adding paper pieces to an existing outfit, as a way of incorporating paper but in not such a full on way as a whole outfit made from paper. I also love the simple white scuptural design of the shoulder pads, styled with all the bright, wacky colours.

Zoe Bradley for Tatler

I really do like this editorial Zoe Bradley helped create for Tatler's May 2008 issue. Paper scenery is another ingenius way of using paper in a photo shoot. I love how all the paper props are really quite simply hand drawn onto white card, but this is what makes them so effective and doesn't distract too much attention from the model. The props that work the best are the ones where the model is interacting in some way with them, for example holding onto the lamp post and paint brush. I love how this look would really suit the paper eaters style but still maintains such a glamorous high fashion feel, thanks to the beautiful couture dresses. This editorial has opened up the possibility of using paper scenery in my photo shoot, however I think it is more effective if the paper element is interactive with the model in some way, therefore I feel paper props whould work beeter for what I am trying to achieve.

Zoe Bradley

Surface Magazine - 2004

Whilst researching into paper fashion, I discovered designer Zoe Bradley whose work is quite simply spectacular. Zoe uses paper to make sculptural and dramatic showpieces which are often commissioned for shop windows, advertising campaigns, editorials and exhibitions. I was particularly interested in these head pieces which featured in an editorial for Surface Magazine in 2004.

My concept for Pride is to have my model wearing a massive headpiece made out of newspaper which will resemble connotations such as, 'big headedness' and over inflated ego' which are associated with the sin, pride. These beautiful headpieces have given me some ideas on how I could manipulate paper to construct a headpiece that portrays vanity and pride.

In all the world I dream in paper

This short stop motion, animated film is created by Petra Storrs and stars Paloma Faith, where she seems to be in dream like world made out of paper. The film shows the deconstruction of the paper dress Paloma is wearing, and it really gives you an idea of all the components required to make such an outfit. There seems to be no real meaning or implication for this film but all the same I find it interesting and impressive.

Agent Provocator Campaign

Hell

Heaven

          

Pirates

This Agent Provocator advertising campaign was photographed by british photographer Tim Bret-Day, who also shot the seven deadly sins campaign for Harvey Nichols. I love his work as there is always so much going on in the image which makes it really visually captivating. The first two images represent heaven and hell which have similar conotations with the seven deadly sins and the third image is of a pirate scene. Although all the images rely heavily on photoshop to create such layered and detailed effects, I love how they represent acts of excess, desire and debauchery, all of which are associated with the seven deadly sins.

Victor & Rolf

February's issue of Dazed & Confused featured this editorial of the magnificant shaved  tulle dresses from the latest Victor & Rolf collection. Im not sure if these dresses have any real relevance to my concept , (they certainly don't have that 80s vibe) but I think they are simply stunning. I love how this designer duo have taken these beautifully elegant ball gowns and chopped, sliced and bore holes through them to create these wonderfully new and interesting shapes and design features.

Liz Dungate: Dujour magazine

This is an editorial taken from Dujour magazine and shows how very basic, plain paper pieces can be styled and used as accessories in a photo shoot. I think they work so well because the outfits are also very pale in colour and quite mininal but also because they contrast nicely against the coloured lighting in the background. It is a strong possibility that I would be able to incorporate some paper accessories into my photo shoot, as the scale of them makes them easier to make than a full on paper outfit.

Sublime: Paper Fashion

Paper Fashion for Sublime Magazine Editorial. Photographer Rai Royal, Stylist Justine Josephs, Designer Petra Storrs. This editorial showcases more of Petra Storrs creations, where inspiration has been drawn from op art to create these amazing showpieces that don't even look as if they are made from paper. This is seriously impressive paper fashion, and highlights how versatile paper can be in creating such strong visual structures and taking fashion to a different dimension.

Dazed & Confused

This is an editorial styled by Nicola Formichetti for Dazed & Confused showcasing Petra Storrs creations.

Petra Storrs

These images show the work of Petra Storrs, a creative set design artist whose work is entirely made out of paper. Her work is so impressive that she has become very popular amongst bands and musicans, which has lead her to branch out into making stage costumes and fashion pieces from paper, for artist such as Paloma Faith.

Petra Storrs' talent lies in the fact that she can transform flat, uninteresting pieces of paper into tactile and sculptural pieces of art. For my photo shoot, I hope to use paper in a similar way by incorporating it into the main elements of my concepts for each of the seven deadly sins.

Newspaper Bedding

To create the image of the sin Lust, I have been quite certain that I want to have the model lying in an unmade bed showing the aftermath of a lustful encounter. I wanted to incorporate paper into the bedding in some way as if to show society's lust and love of paper, and I came across this newspaper bedding which was used in Vogue's August 2005 article with Madonna called, 'Reading in between the sheets'. This newspaper bedding is great and is just what I am after to create this image, however I am going to have a go at making this bedding myself using real newspaper sewn together like a patchwork quilt to create the desired effect.

Paper Dresses

Newspaper dress by Zoe Bradley

1960s "The Souper Dress" Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Paper Dress

Origami paper dress

 

Newspaper dress by Gary Harvey

Designed by Petra Storrs for The Sunday Times Fashion Suppliment

Newspaper dress by Zoe Bradley

Newspaper dress by Gary Harvey

Paper Sculpture Fashion by Zaharova and Plotnikov

I have been researching ways I can incorporate paper consumption into my seven deadly sins images and have come across these amazing paper dresses by various designers. These images go to show how versatile paper can be, as a way of creating volume and ruffles, origami shapes or adding prints to a design. It would be really interesting to use paper dresses in my images, however I don't feel I have the construction skills to pull this off. I have thought about collaborating with other designers on our course as a way of creating paper outfits, although I feel that the outfits I will choose are quite personal to each sin and therefore I wouldn't be able to rely on someone elses designs to fit each sin.