Above is the contact sheet from my second blonde shoot. This shoot was heavily inspired by the character of Regina George from the 2002 film “Mean Girls” I was inspired by a scene where they perform a raunchy dance routine(completely inappropriate for a school situation) to the popular Christmas song “jingle bell rock”. Surprisingly I already had this Christmas costume from the Christmas of 2015. Due to the off the shoulder nature of the dress and the strange fit i found it hard to pose in a way that was flattering. Similarly to the previous blonde shoot I was rather uncomfortable posing for this shoot as I felt that the character I was trying to create was not me at all. I made the creative decision to use a blue background for these photos as the red of the dress clashed with the pink background.

These are the shortlisted images from the shoot that I decided to edit. I selected these images because they captured the playful flirty nature of Regina George’s character as well as the stereotype of the “dumb blonde”. to edit thee images I increased the brightness, contrast and colour saturation to make the red of the dress slightly more vibrant. I smoothed out the complexion by removing any distracting blemishes, I also cinched in the waist slightly in the centre photo, although it does look a little strange. Similarly to the previous shoot I had to edit out the lace of the wig by using a combination of the spot healing tool and the airbrush, selecting various toned from else where on the forehead. Although I am happy with how the images came out I don’t think that i will be using these photos as final outcomes because I feel that the stereotype is very reliant on people having seen the film “Mean Girls”. However the shoot was fun to conduct and it was a good from of experimentation.