Production Design update: Instant Photographs

In one of the scenes of Likeness, instant photographs are required to dress the set, in order to create what appears to be a mass of photographs that the protagonist must wade through. For the very top of the pile, prints are needed to sell the illusion that the pile is made entirely of photographs.

For this, I retrieved a number of public domain images, and using a Photoshop action acquired at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/20/the-ultimate-collection-of-useful-photoshop-actions/  each photograph was framed in a Polaroid-style frame. For this, I have to thank my girlfriend and her Photoshop wizardry for advising me on the quickest and most effective method to do this.

Below are a couple of the images, which will be ordered through Snapfish at a great bargain of 1p per print. I have primarily selected images which represent nature, in order to draw a contrast between the reality from which they were obtained and the questionable level of truth relating to how real these images in fact now are, as photographs. Secondly, to take it further, images were selected which purposefully could not in fact have been taken as instant photographs; a direct comment upon the reproducible and malleable nature of modern photography and the resultant questionable fidelity inherent in any given photograph.