Little Red Riding Hood vs. Zombies
The whole intention of this panoramic photograph was to create a twist on a classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood by adding zombies into the story instead of the wolf. This photograph can be applied in promoting the game; based on Plants vs. Zombies (perhaps Little Red Riding Hood vs. Zombies is a spinoff). The idea was inspired by parodies of fairy tales, often done in a modern style for example the movie Cinderella Story.
Report on Process of Development
There were two initial ideas that got rejected. This Little Red Riding Hood idea is the third and it has the most interesting execution style among the lot. I researched on the style of zombies and decided on using the ones featured in the game Plants vs. Zombies. The difference between the zombies in the game and in my photograph is that the in-game ones have buckets on their heads, wearing modern clothing, and other weird apparels whereas mine is basically a bunch of mob zombies carrying various mob weapons.
The style of Little Red Riding Hood was inspired by a few illustrations of the character. The character wears her famous red cloak but her dress, I used a sort of muted light blue so that it creates a contrast with the cloak.
All the zombies, Little Red Riding Hood, the trees and the houses featured in the photograph are all hand drawn. They were drawn in pencil then inked in Indian ink. After that, each of them were painted with watercolour. Then, they were cut out of the paper with a little extra bit at the bottom so that it can be stuck into the ground.
Next bit is the photography. I got permission from my mum to dig the grass in the garden. I used sand to fill up some of the “road” I dug out. Then I arranged all the paper cut-outs for each scene; first scene had Little Red Riding Hood’s house, some trees and a zombie head peeking out from behind a tree. So, all the scenes were photographed one by one. This was done in the middle of the night from approximately 10pm to 12am. I wanted it to have a creepy-ish feeling and I think that a very dark background serves the purpose. The lighting was a single light source coming from the front from my mobile phone LED.
After the photographs were taken, they were merged together manually as the automated process didn’t work out. I soon realised there were not enough trees in the entire photograph. I duplicated some of the trees and added them into the background. Some adjustments were made to certain paper cut-outs to create a sense of depth. The final adjustment was the hue of the photograph. Then I test printed a few times and then the final was printed on 8 x 48 inches paper.
The style of Little Red Riding Hood was inspired by a few illustrations of the character. The character wears her famous red cloak but her dress, I used a sort of muted light blue so that it creates a contrast with the cloak.
All the zombies, Little Red Riding Hood, the trees and the houses featured in the photograph are all hand drawn. They were drawn in pencil then inked in Indian ink. After that, each of them were painted with watercolour. Then, they were cut out of the paper with a little extra bit at the bottom so that it can be stuck into the ground.
Next bit is the photography. I got permission from my mum to dig the grass in the garden. I used sand to fill up some of the “road” I dug out. Then I arranged all the paper cut-outs for each scene; first scene had Little Red Riding Hood’s house, some trees and a zombie head peeking out from behind a tree. So, all the scenes were photographed one by one. This was done in the middle of the night from approximately 10pm to 12am. I wanted it to have a creepy-ish feeling and I think that a very dark background serves the purpose. The lighting was a single light source coming from the front from my mobile phone LED.
After the photographs were taken, they were merged together manually as the automated process didn’t work out. I soon realised there were not enough trees in the entire photograph. I duplicated some of the trees and added them into the background. Some adjustments were made to certain paper cut-outs to create a sense of depth. The final adjustment was the hue of the photograph. Then I test printed a few times and then the final was printed on 8 x 48 inches paper.
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