So after considering the stories that i used to weave into my den building games i thought it would be good to create a mood board of the kind of “look” that i used to imagine when playing these games. In the games my friends and I would completely become these characters we were imagining and therefore completely reinvented ourselves in order to fit the way we imagined the characters. Depending on the game the characters would have different elements to them but they always seemed to be pretty wild looking, at least in my own head. Above are photographs which are along the lines of what i used to imagine. Colour seems to be a really important element to the “Wild look”.

I think that i have begun finding with my different dens that each den has its own colour scheme that is different from the others. I think in creating my wild people i am going to try and harness this to have the colours of the den linking to the design of my wild children. I almost want to have one portrait to every den and i think i  can create a link between them by using colour. I think colour is a really simple way to unite the dens and the portraits together as it is instantly identifiable rather then to have a conceptual link. I might even goes as far as to use the same materials which are in in the dens within the portraits in some way, this creating a very strong link between the two.  I think i’m mainly going to focus on photographing the faces on the subjects rather then full body images. I might also experiment with movement  and a low shutter speed to link to my photographs of the dens at night. It might be quite interesting to explore the movement within the same environment the den is built but with the den absent. I think once i do a first experimental shoot i can then access exactly what works and how its going to come together.