Making of Receipts

After writing out all of my ideas my thought process of what I want to represent in my work has become a lot clearer. I know that I would like to produce something that incorporates the photography and styling side of fashion promotion. I know that I want to represent people being obsesses with status and how much they have spent on something. I thought of a few ways that I could show this and two immediate ideas were the use of shopping bags and receipts. Two things that can quite easily be used in a photoshoot. 

I thought about receipts first as this might take a little longer to experiment with and my initial thought was that this would be more interesting out of the two. Being a 17 year old student, I don't have a lot of money to go out with and buy things that would help me to gain a large amount of receipts that would be enough to style someone in. I looked inside my purse and found 5 receipts, this deffinitely wasn't enough to style a whole body in, so I knew I would have to recreate these receipts to produce a lot more. I thought about tracing them and using different materials, but knowing that I didn't have a lot of time left on the project and I had only just started experimenting I thought that I would start with photocopying the receipts lots of times so that I would have plenty. To do this in the most effective way possible I stuck the 5 original receipts on an A4 page and photocopied that close to 40 times, meaning I had a total of about 200 receipts. I cut each one out and crumpled it to thin out the paper and produce the wrinkles that are commonly found on receipts after they are thrown into the bottom of your shopping bag. This worked really well and the receipts that had been printed out on standard paper, came out looking and feeling like the common receipt.