Dhwani Solanki

 

Final idea

For my final piece i wanted to create a home made dark room which is made within the stalker's house, with pictures of a woman all over one side of the stalker's wall. These pictures are the glamour pictures that he got hold of from somewhere, and on top of that, he is also developing more photographs of this woman that he has taken on his own, and putting them up on a string.
I will have a mannequin dressed up in a suit and hat, standing and observing his work, to represent the stalker. 
To make the dark room, I will use a green room, and cover it all in black paper, i will then use a red filter on a light to give a dark room effect.
I will also have venetian blinds on the front of the dark room where my audience will be able to look at the stalker through the venetian blinds. This will give the effect that we are watching the stalker, making us somewhat a stalker too. I have drawn out a floor plan for this below.
The setting will be the green room in the Media suite.
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Here is a draft of what the wall will look like. In real, i would have a few gaps on the wall from where the pictures are stuck and it would look a lot neater. This is because, the stalker's obsession makes him quite a perfectionist at his work, so everything he would do or put up would be done accurately by measuring the wall and placing the pictures perfectly in line with each other. 

Lighting

For this i decided to have a red light effect in the green room because i wanted it to look like a dark room, and dark rooms usually have a red light in them. For this i used a red gel filter on the light to turn the room into a red colour. I experimented if this would work in a dark cupboard first, to see how well the lighting gets spread, and the result was quite good. 

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Film Noir

I decided to go for a Film Noir style for my final idea becuase I thought it was very connected to the theme of stalking due to all the connections with crime, darkness, voyeurism, and use of filters such as venetian blinds.
I also looked at the women in Film Noir, so that i could have an overview of what the women posed like for pictures at those times. Below i have conducted some research on this.

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In these images, the women look quite strong, and mysterious. This effect is very good to show a sense of Femme Fatal. 
The images both have a keylight that lights their face, and creates shadows at the same time. These shadows help the women look quite mysterious.
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These images are quite playful and happy with the women smiling and having lots of fun. This is partly becuase the 1950s was an era of being wuite playful and risque.
These women usually had perfect blonde hair and beautiful rich clothes.
I like these images quite a lot becuase it shows independance in a woman, and how they had the right to be happy and enjoy their lives, but in the background how the men used to want to kill these women, and they did not know anything about it.
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These images are quite seductive, and show the women being quite sexy and attractive. these images also represent Femme Fatal and how their attractiveness can lead to a mans downfall. This is also what happens to a stalker... the woman he is stalking usually becomes their whole life, having negetive effects on the women.
I decided that i will also take pictures of a girl in three different styles, strong and mysterious, playful, and sexy.

My interpretation

I didnt want to make these images exactly the same as the ones taken above becuase I wanted to make them more contemporary and also hold the film noir elements in it. This is called neo noir, another french word that means motion pictures and other forms that prominently utilizes elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 1950s.
This is why I made my model, Louise, wear modern clothes, but with hints of film noir elements such as red lipstick and typical blonde hair.
Playfull

Here are some examples of the playful photographs I took of my model for my final piece.
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Strong and Mysterious

Here are some examples of the strong and mysterious types of pictures I took of my model.
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Seductive and flirtacious

And finally, here i have some flirtacious and seductive photographs of my model.
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I've mix and matched these photographs quite a lot in the sense that they are half with her wearing a blonde wig, and the other half with her natually. This is becuase of the neo noir element i wanted to have in my photographs.

I also took lighting into a lot of consideration and used one key light for most of these images to create that film noir effect through neo noir. Some of these images are shown below.
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