My final piece is a tableau image that depicts the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. I chose to interpret the Grimm Brother’s version of this fairy tale. The scene that my image depicts is at the end of the story. It is set in the kitchen of Grandma’s house. Little Red Riding Hood are eating the cake and drinking the wine that red riding hood was taking to grandma’s house. The wolf is symbolised by the head of the wolf hanging on the wall and by the knife that little red riding hood holding pointing towards the head of the wolf. The props that are on the table are all significant to the story. The cake and wine are the items little red riding hood was taking to Grandma’s and the basket that she was taking them in, the flowers are there as in the story she is picking flowers which distracts her off her path and leads the wolf to go ahead onto Grandma’s house, the woodcutter’s axe which saves red riding hood and the grandma from the wolf, and the glasses that belong to grandma which the wolf would have also worn when he was disguising himself as the grandma.  As I based my image on the Grimm Brother’s version of the tale, I wanted to take a visually dark approach to the piece which I have conveyed with my use of lighting.

• Red material – £7
• 8 Muffins – £2
• 2 x Sponge cakes – £5
• Hot cross buns – £2
• Woodland animal mask (x2) – £4
• Red thread – 25p
• Flowers – £2.05
• Cost of final print – £8
• Cost of mount board – £2.99

My final budget for this project was £33.29

f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 200

This is my final, edited image. It is set at the end of the story when Little Red Riding Hood and the woodcutter are in the kitchen of the grandma’s house, eating the cake and drinking the wine that Red Riding Hood was taking to her grandmothers house.

The size of the final print is 12 x 18 and is mounted onto A2 white mount board.

Editing the RAW file

Adjusting the colour curves.

Cloning out white patches on the wall

After the patches had been cloned

Resizing the wolf prop.

f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 200

f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 200

f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 200

f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 200

These are a few shots from my final shoot. I changed several things on this shoot compared to the last one. Firstly I changed the position of the lighting so that it was above the subjects rather than coming from the side. I prefer this lighting as I think it gives a slightly sinister effect to the image. I modified the wolf prop slightly in an attempt to make it look a little more realistic. I think this works to an extent. I also made changes to a few props. I added hot cross buns to the basket of cakes to make this more visually pleasing. I also attempted to make the handle of the axe look wooden. I did this by printing out a wooden texture onto paper and wrapped the paper around the handle of the axe. The flowers are also different as I feel that yellow stands out better than the purple flowers that I had in the previous shoot. I kept The pose of little red riding hood virtually the same. I also changed the red riding hood costume slightly and tied it around my models using the material instead of red thread. I feel that this looks a lot better than before.

Behind the scenes shot of set up and lighting.

Contact sheets of this shoot