I used the still life studio room for my first narrative based 'still life' shoot, the room consisted of one soft box and a small white infinity screen, in which to place the still life item, and I also brought a flash gun with me as a secondary light source. I felt that to get the pictorial/nostalgia aesthetic, I required, I would need to use quite soft lighting, which I would gain from the soft box, and I chose to back light the porcelain doll with the flash gun in order to convey the haunting presence of the subject matter. The scene constructed was quite simple, as I intended, but I felt that the narrative wasn't effectively communicated through the images. This was partly due to the lighting, which was almost flat, whilst the back lighting clipped the hair of the doll rather than produce the rim lighting that I desired. In order to achieve the nostalgic/pictorial aesthetic I will utilise naturally diffused window lighting and construct the scene within my house. I also felt that the framing, positioning and composition of the scene and subject matter wasn't correct, I will rectify this by using a larger scope to the frame, which isn't so tightly cropped, and positioning the subject offset from the center of the image in order to denote dysfunctionality and disturbia within the subject matter. Within the composition I will also integrate the foreboding placement of a wooden box within the scene to communicate more effectively the narrative within the scene whilst also encouraging the viewer to the missing passages of narrative beyond the frame.
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