Personal Tableaux Vivian photo shoot plan

In order to understand Tableaux Vivian into further detail, i am going to recreate a movie scene. I have decided to take a clip from the mode ‘ The Addams family’ of a character called Wednesday Addams and i plan to recreate the chosen image.

For my attempt at tableaux vivant photography, i decided to recreate a scene from the film ” The Addams family”. The film follows a Gothic family whos long lost brother comes home from being missing and the family is thrilled. However, the mother begins to suspect the man is a fraud and get’s help from a lawyer who manages to get the Addams clan evicted from their home. Gomez realizes the two men are conspiring to swindle the Addams fortune and that he must challenge Fester. This film was released in 1991 in America. I chose to recreate a scene from this film as there are many interesting concepts in the film which really intrigue me.

Each main character in the movie has their own personalities, however apart from there differences there are also similarities between the family. Below is a mind map to show their personalities,

Mood board

This mood board of screenshots from the movie symbolizes the type of family they are, what they wear and how they act. The family seems to be together a lot, like they are very close. They all tend to wear dark colors, dark makeup and all look peculiar looking. In my photoshoot i will ensure to take this all into consideration and will have my model wearing dark clothing and in a dark location.

Image i’m recreating

Technical aspect analysis 

When looking at this image, i can clearly see that there has been a narrow depth of field used which has made the main focus be on Wednesday. There has also been a natural lighting used due to the outdoor area the image has been taken in. The lighting also shows us that the shutter speed of this image must of been quite quick due to there being a good amount of light in the image. I also think that the ISO has been set to around 800 due to the image being shown as being quite grainy. Due to being outside the White Balance of the image is most likely to have been set on daylight mode.

Visual aspect analysis 

When looking at the image i can see that Wednesday in directly in the middle of the image, the color of the image is quite dark which shows that there is no tone in the image due to there being no contrast in light and dark. Due to this image being taken with a narrow depth of field, the image looks 3D. I can also see there are background people in the distance, all of which we can’t clearly see due to the blurring.

Context aspect analysis 

This was a screenshot from a part in the movie where the character Wednesday is at a summer camp.

Concept aspect analysis 

I chose to recreate this image as it has a lot of underlying concepts. We can firstly tell that the character has an attitude to her due to her facial expressions. The reason her facial expression is like this is due to the situation she is in, she is disgusted with all the other girls fro being so girly. Secondly, it is clear that she is wearing her typically dark colors and has her well known plaits in her hair. This is due to her wanting to stay close to her family after they’ve sent her to summer camp because of the situation going on at home, however in this situation the dark colors and the prop she has are suggesting that she is in a dark place, maybe in her mind.

It is very important to capture the characters personality in the image. Wednesday is stood with a suttle disgusted expressed face which is showing us that she doesn’t fit it with the other girls because of her looks and interests.

Photo shoot plan

For my recreation of the image, i will take the images in a local park where there will be a natural light source. I will use my one main model and then also have a few people in the background image. With the help of my model, i will choose the appropriate clothing which resembles Wednesday’s character the best. For the photo shoot plan, i plan to use only natural light for the image as the original image was taken outside. I will use a daylight/ cloudy white balance in order to ensure the photo is very similar and i will find which ISO and shutter speed to use when im in the conditions. To make the image identical, i will also made a prop from a vodka bottle to act as the poison bottle that Wednesday is holding in the original image.

Aspects to include 

• Natural lighting- daylight/ cloudy WB, high shutter speed.
• Image to be taken outside for the scenery
• Narrow depth of field- Make image look 3D
• High ISO
• Facial expressions- Showing with eyes
• Props- ‘Poison’ bottle
• Model to wear a white collared shirt, black top and have plaits.
• Have background people
• Dark lighted image

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Best Outcomes

Edited best outcomes

Technical 

When taking this image it was very dark outside and i therefore had to take the image on portrait mode using flash. My shutter speed was set to 1/200 and my ISO was on 800. I wanted Wednesday to be the subject of the image and i therefore used an F stop of 6 so that the model in the background was blurred out of the image.

Visual 

Visually, i made sure my model was in the center of the camera lense as so was the original Wednesday in the image. I also made sure we had the correct props, colored nails, hair style, coloring of the skin and correct outfit. Due to Wednesday having red nails, i instructed my model to paint hers red before attending the shoot and I made the poison bottle prop. I also used one model in the background to represent the cheerful environment Wednesday was in when the original shoot was done. I had my background model be cheerful by smiling and then also clapping to copy the original image.

Concept

When doing this shoot, i wanted the model to show Wednesday’s personality and she therefore made a disgusted look and was looking the same direction as Wednesday was in the original picture. This facial expression was the correct as it helped to tell a story.

Comparison between original and my final outcome