Decision Making

At first, we were looking into the set build of 'Red Riding Hood' and were contemplating having an inside build of a cottage. - A front room or bedroom. We then thought about the forest and whether to incorporate the forest with this cottage scene.

After looking at the work of Gregory Crewdson, this image in particulare gave us inspiration;

This image includes everything we were looking at; A bed, house environment, a tree..

But after a long discussion, due to us wanting to give this story a modern twist with a sense of contemporary fashion, we felt this idea of a cottage and/or forest would contradict that and maybe not make sense.

We also had to consider building time and cost.

From this, we started looking at the idea of a bedroom and reflecting on our original intensions of the female being dominent and provocative whilst the male, 'Red' is timid.

We looked at settings of inside bedrooms and had a look at what they tell and reveal, through the lighting, model costume/position and set design.

More images by Gregory Crewdson;

At first view of this image, it comes across that this woman is conscious of her body. - Staring directly at her body in the mirror, analysing every single curve and detail.

The thing that caught my attention most, was where she is standing, or what she is standing in or on rather.

This patch looks like a burnt part of the carpet or perhaps a hideous stain. Why she is standing there is unknown.

Her facial expression looks emotionless and quite doll-like, along with her stance.

Within this image, the female also has a blank expression. She seems to be staring or day dreaming, perhaps contemplating her recent behaviour. - Going over what she has done and perhaps why. Analysing herself, like the image above, whilst a guy sleeps in the bed unaware of what she is doing.

She looks, from what I can make out, maybe a little sad or worried.

Both images seem to be taken at night, and have light from a lightbulb in the room.

This image, like the others, shows one person sleeping, whilst another is awake daydreaming or quietly thinking. They all seem to appear either confused, sad/troubled or worried.
The lighting here seems to all be from a bedroom window, outlining and reflecting certain aspects we cannot necessarily see. Like the outline of the other windows for example.

Gregory Crewdson pays meticulous attention to detail and can spend days organizing and rearranging a set, until he gets the perfect, move-still like picture.