Little Red Riding Hood

Our task was to create an outcome using our knowledge of photo shop; by morphing together my own photos with images from the google images. In order to create our own imaginative narrative image of a nursery rhyme or fairy tale.

There are many steps to this task and first I needed to mind map a few ideas of rhymes or tales of which I could use.

After planning out a few ideas, I decided on Little Red Riding Hood; I chose this one because it was the idea I had thought of originally but seeing as it was a popular decision I was conscious for using it but in the end I found it the most interesting and fun to base my work on.

So next was my research on the tale; I found out many things and interpretations which were very intriguing.

Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH) has a far-reaching and arguable history; it is the most studied and interpreted fairy tales. Commonly the story goes like this: The child is to bring custard/biscuits etc to her grandmother who to be believed ill. On the way she meets the wolf and he wants to eat her right there and then, but fears the woodcutters nearby. She answers, not knowing that it is dangerous to stay and hear a wolf talk. The wolf takes a short cut to the cottage while the girl dallies picking up flowers. The wolf eats her grandmother and disguises as her, in her clothes, in her bed. When LRRH enters the cottage, the 'grandmother' tells her to come to the bed. At this point there is much talk on the features of the wolf. Depending on what story, depends on what ending is told. The common ending is that LRRH tries to leave but gets tricked and eaten by the wolf, but this is different for many different interpretations.

One moral of which I found is that little, gentle, precious girls should not talk to strangers no matter who they are or how nice they are; the quietest ones are the most sly.

Another interpretation consists of cake and wine instead to the sick grandmother. Both cake and wine are symbolic to the christian communion. This shows a significant shift in variations, where the child bringing cake and wine (religious context) instead of bread and milk which symbolise mother/feminine figure.

For different sections of the story there are many different interpretations and above are a few to give a background and history of how the tale would and could have been told or understood. For the younger generations to them its just another tale amongst others of which they hear, but for adults they read into things much more due there developed way of analysing things. For example: the cloak that she wears; its red and this could symbolise danger or even the blood from the wolf.