stimulating ideas?

I decided to do a mind map of what the theme actually included, I thought of definitions, words that could link to the topic and other subject matter of which could be included within the theme. This helped me see all content of the theme together and for me to see what options are there to be explored.
I then decided to do a 'visual brainstorm' of, what to me, mystery and imagination is and what it would look like as a response to the mind map above.
Here are some of the photographs which I took while exploring this theme:

From this I set myself a few tasks in order to get my imagination flowing and be able to move on with the actual exam project. My first experiment was to 'make a board game into a reality', I thought that this was quite a good theme to set myself as it would provoke mystery in the production and manipulation of the photograph and it will also help my imagination.

Here is my finished photograph:

I chose the boardgame 'Cluedo' for my photograph as its one of my favourite games and I thought that it would work brilliantly with the theme, 'mystery and imagination'. I chose the character 'Mrs Peacock' for my photo as this is the character in which I would always play with. I showed the character of 'Mrs Peacock' through both the peacock feather patterned dress and the blue lighting.
I thought that the blue lighting was appropriate for the scene as mrs peacocks famous colour is blue. I have also left the shadow of the person within the photo to provoke that sense of mystery as well as the fact of that you can't actually see the persons face which connects well with imagination as the audience have to try and conjure a face within your mind as to what the face of Mrs Peacock looks like. I chose to have a bookcase within the scene as well as a dagger to suggest the aim and accusations of the game, for example, 'Mrs peacock in the library with the dagger?'

Here is another experiment that I wanted to try out which was to 'show god through the environment, an object or place'.

These are the photos that came from the experiment:

I chose this photograph as a representation of god as I thought that it had the potential of having a 'higher power' and as I was taking it I felt really vulnerable and almost as though someone was 'watching' me which gave me that sense of mystery and of the being of life.

Eventhough this is a really simple picture I thought that it represented the 'being' of god as it shows natural beauty of the land. It also has a really airy feel about it as though its really light and that its a place of peace and tranquility. A place that you could go to and just take in its beauty and the wonder of how it came to be.