Chadwick_MythMetaphor

My idea for the mythology part of this assignment is to use the story of "Little Red Riding Hood". Instead of the "Big Bad Wolf", I will create a visual metaphor of "Big Bad Human", and how in the modern world it is humans who are terrorizing animals - not the other way around. I plan on taking a picture of my dog (a big chocolate lab that I can photoshop in to looking more like a wolf), and I would also take a picture of one of my friends. I would make the person pose in an evil/aggressive way to show how humans are aggressive towards animals. The images will be taken outdoors, to show how humans invade and terrorize animals in their natural habitats. I can use dark lighting on the human, but bright lighting on the animal. This lighting technique will show how humans have turned dark in the modern world and do not care about the lives of animals. Whoever I end up using as the human subject, I will have them wear as much red as possible, to show that they are representing Little Red Riding Hood. I wish to do this specific idea because I am extremely interested in animals, and am against animal cruelty. However, in the modern world animals are kept in captivity and murdered everyday for no reason whatsoever. I want to demonstrate that this myth has transformed over the years, and that today, humans would be considered the "Big Bad Wolf". From the overall assignment I will learn how to photoshop an animal in order to enhance it's features. Other people will learn that maybe they should stop killing animals just for the heck of it, and learn that humans and animals should be equals in society - because we really aren't that different. This overall idea is interesting to me because I wish to represent that true facts about today's modern world - animals are treated terribly because humans think of them as simply food. This assignment will flip flop the myth of the Big Bad Wolf and create the Big Bad Human. The myth/metaphor I am basing my idea on is "Little Red Riding Hood". This myth is about the Big Bad Wolf, and how he eats Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother. The Big Bad Wolf tricks the Grandmother into thinking that he is the little girl, and then after he eats the Grandma, he tricks the girl into thinking that he is her Grandma.

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