allyn_mythmetaphor



CONCEPT: What is your idea for mythology and/or metaphor, how will you interpret the idea of a visual metaphor and a myth? SUBJECT: What sorts of images will you need to shoot to create your idea? What will it involve? places, people, costumes, sets, nature, lighting? REASONING: Why do you wish to do this idea? What will you learn from it? How is it interesting to you? FACTS: What is the myth/metaphor that you are basing your idea on? Explain it's history and any other pertinent facts regarding the myth/metaphor that will help us understand your idea.

In order to complete this assignment, I wanted to create a photo that depicts a cockatrice, by photographing either a real chicken/rooster and a real lizard/reptile, or by taking photos of chicken/rooster and dragon sculptures. In order to create this I will most likely need to either purchase/find sculptures of the two. or visit a zoo/pet store to find them. I will also have to use a lot of my photoshop skills to make sure it looks good in whatever background I put it in, and to make the creature look smooth. To make sure the picture is correctly light I will have to figure out and guess what it would look like outside, and shine a light on it that way. I want to do this idea because I just think the idea is fun, but also because I think it symbolizes how people can and will be afraid of things that are "silly" or things that they don't need to be afraid of. The cockatrice is a dragon with a rooster head, and kill people by simply looking, touching, or breathing on them. Since these creatures aren't easy to just find, I think I will have to learn a lot of techniques in photoshop to make the look like they are a part of the same creature. The cockatrice is a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head, either the ability to kill people by looking at them, touching them, and sometimes breathing on them. The cockatrice was also supposed to be born from an egg that was laid by a rooster, and incubated by a toad.

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