The photo above is the initial image I was given. I began listing words about what the image meant to me, what story I get from it. To me the image suggested a horror/thriller type of genre because of the minimal lighting, black and white colouring and mysererious content. Whilst writing down my thoughts of the image I kept going back to the same two words, 'Spying' and 'Curious', I knew for my project to develop I'd have to stick to one of these and take the next step which would be to take my own following on image. The image suggests two things to me, either someone is spying on the closed door which sets off a crazed and scary genre or someone is curious as to what is happening behind the closed door which sets off a mystery genre. I decided upon the crazed and scary genre to take forwards because I thought the black and white colouring and dark setting with pin point lighting would suit this genre more but I'll see if my fellow peers feel the same when I present my ideas in a couple of days.
It took me a while to think up a story from my beginning image, I knew I wanted something scary, intense and 'spy' like but I didn't yet know what. I started drawing ideas of images I could re-create through photography, trying to keep a clear link between each of them and the starting photo.
The story behind my images is a basic kidnap story. My idea could be seen as too obvious and not creative enough but I think with the twist I've ot in mind and the context of the images then this won't be a problem.
'A tall, broad shouldered man lurks in the corridoor, his eyes fixated upon her safe place. Without making a sound the man watches the closed door, his delirious mind imagining what everyday tasks she's completing inside. The few glaring minutes that seem like hours have ended, the man returns to his cave. The man watches her like a silent but deadly cat watches a mouse, he waits until she disappears out of view before he returns to his lonely life. He sits staring at the photos of her that his obssesion had forced him to capture, waiting and waiting. His tries to fight his absurd thoughts but they always win. One day his crazy thoughts tip him over the edge, his over thought plan begins to unfold. He grabs her, she doesn't know what to do, confused, she finds herself falling into a bizarre trance like state. She wakes up in a small room, the lack of humanly presence knocks her sense of reality to the ground. The once free young lady is trapped in her own shrine. Her tied hands struggle for escape but have no luck, she's stuck. As the hours pass her struggling dies down, exhaustion has hit her, her only fate is waiting. Creaking footsteps haunt the enclosed room, someone or something is approaching. Her eyes spark open as sharp as the knife that she spotted on the table in the corner of the room. She see's the man briefly but doesn't recognise him to be the lonely man who lives in the apartment opposite. Days or hours pass, more brief encounters and more struggles and upsets. Confused and disorientated, the young lady has no sense of time. The man walks in a number of times and speaks none, he carries a different object in each time until he is found seated facing the girl with a sorry but pleased grin on his usually hidden face. The girl finds her chance to escape, after talking her self up she does it! She runs for the door and leaves him lying there motionless.'
The short story above is how I see my story playing out in my head. I want my images to leave the viewer guessing at certain points as to what the outcome of them actually is. The viewer has to use their imagination to fill in the gaps so the sotry becomes more personal to them s well as follow the route I want it to follow.
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