Your World, Theirs, or Their Own?

Most of the time, I try to make my pictures and picture stories "their world". But I've had a few "I share my world with them" photostories that I thought were pretty cute as well.

 

I do my best to stay out of their pictures and photostories. Box openings can't be helped. I'm a huge stickler about my dolls and their pictures being as in scale as possible. I even refuse to take pictures of my dolls in front of brick walls or around chain link fences because of this.

 

My dolls all have a story behind how they came to live with me... some from other places on Earth, some from completely fictional places... but currently they all live here.... like little flatmates or lodgers

 

My dolls usually live in their own in-scale world. But every once in a while, photos will show me interacting with them, but only when it really makes sense. The only one that comes to mind right now was when my doll received her presents through "The Prop Swap" here on DoA - I "helped" my doll open the box, etc...

 

I think of myself as an interested outside observer of the various worlds they seem to inhabit. I originally thought that I would have a unified group of in-scale dolls that would interact as adults and children, but then I began to buy very tiny dolls and a few fantasy dolls so have had to add the concept of parallel worlds. I actually don't post stories very much or box openings either, but I pretend in my head that they have personalities and adventures. Anything to justify buying more of them, it seems. I have to admit, though, that I occasionally make remarks to them, especially if I get pinched restringing one of them.

 

My doll (soon to be dolls ) are based off of existing story characters, and as such already had a very unique world of their own developed.

When I RP them with friends (and things turn for the nonsensical 4th wall breaking sort of scenario), the characters refer to us, the humans, as "Creators"- a sort of omnipresent invisible being whose whim controls all and whose voice can be heard from the sky. The characters can try to talk to the creators, the question is whether or not we choose to respond.

 

So far, all my photostories/shoots have been in a world that I share with my doll/s. Later on, when my next couple boys arrive, they'll have photostories in their own world where I won't exist, but Vince exists in my world with me. (He even knows he's a doll and everything)

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Anneko

 

I prefer to deal with the dolls in their own world without me involved. I don't need to be in the stories. I try to make things as in scale as possible. Box openings are usually just that, nothing more than me opening the box, but I have had story-like box openings as well. I'm not in those, either. I don't think I've ever spoken to my dolls in stories. I don't think they even know who I am. Mostly my dolls exist in parallel universes that sort of coincide occasionally.

 

To me, box opening aren't the same thing as photostories. Box openings are just a fun way to share your joy of getting a doll with everyone else. But a photostory is just that, a story. I used to interact with my dolls in photostories, but that has since changed. The main family exists in the normal world where everything is "normal" and in scale with them, but then I have a side "cast" that is from a parallel world, but stays with the main family. It sounds so confusing!

 

My dolls are at base drawed on paper character's who have their own world, but for some of, it's not a world who seems like human world.
So it's very rare that I appear on a picture with my dolls. Or it's a fun picture, not in their world.
But when I take some photos, I can't help talk to her... I think i's funny for other people who are in front of me xD

 

I'll do a little bit of both, though my dolls tend to stick in their own world and stories during photos with little to no interaction from me (with the exception of omakes). I like to tell their stories with my pictures and during shoots, our world becomes theirs. I don;t have the money or the room to make miniature sets so I make due with what I have and try to use different distances and angles to make the dolls fit in better with the environment.

 

Of laziness and necessity both, my dolls are not only aware that they are in a human-size world but occasionally interact with me. I just can't afford the time/energy/space to make them doll-scale worlds, nor do I have the talent to do so like some of the greats .

For the most part, though, they do a great ignore of the big people.

 

Mine are 'share my world with them' stories. It just seems a lot easier than anything else. I don't have enough room to really have a dedicated 'set' for them, either. I have tried to make it look like they were in their own world, but it's really hard.

 

Usally my dolls live in her boxes. I plan to get a diorama for they so they can live in her own.

 

I don't do stories. When I shoot photos, I generally try to set up, compose, and light them so that the dolls look like they're human-sized, though, and I almost never combine real people or objects meant for them with dolls, aside from the occasional "hey, look, my doll is on my desk!" kind of photo.

 

My dolls exist in their own world, apart from me. I have an entire room (and a few more sets through out the house) dedicated to the dolls and their bedrooms, a kitchen, a livingroom, bathroom, art room and office. I only take pix outside of their world to sell them or show something specific about them. There are pix on the couch or something, but I never have them actually dealing with human sized props. I used to, but I don't since I started getting doll sized sets and props. They are not aware they are dolls or that I exist in stories.

 

My dolls have their own setting based on a very scewed version of our world, it has monsters and creatures in it after all, and those with strange powers. Plus I try to incorporate my dolls based on characters from other series also.

However since it is based on our world, I do have "myself" as a character, though I'm in scale with them in my story line and much older. So in my stories I do interact with them, however I am usually not in frame.

 

Because of my difficulty in setting up diorama/backgrounds to make them seem in their own scaled world, they tend to be photographed as staying with me (humans). That said, although I am occasionally refered/spoken to, most of the time I stay out of their way and do not effect their story xD;

but since I am spoken to once in a while, i guess that makes me #1 in your poll :P

 

I guess if I had to decide, I would say my dolls live in the same place as me, they're essentially like my cats, dog, and parrot similar to the sense they're like my companions of sorts (in that inanimate kind of way) and live in the same space. I'll be doing my best to provide a comfortable setting and whatnot for them for illustrated stories, also.

 

I do something like that as well in my own imaginings of things, but typically, the dolls live in their own world and I try to scale everything as closely as possible. Since I currently haven't finished the inter-changable set I'm working on, I haven't posted any stories with my gang. I do have a couple where they're kind of OOC, and I'm mentioned in those, but they're really like filler stories. XD

 

My dolls know they are dolls and that they live in a big person's world. They will also refer to me occasionally in photostories.

However, I do the best I can to give them scale items that suit them, and they also seem to have a 'doll reality' too.

 

My dolls have they're own world. All my dolls are actually based on a story I've had in my head that I hope to someday get around to writing. The live in their own world. I just take the pictures.

 

I'd like to some day have my doll live in a world of her own, but seeing as she's lonesome by herself, I like to keep her in mine until she has another doll to spend her time with. =)

 

Not only am I exactly with MissPinkTutu on the idea of my girl being lonely if I'm not in her world since she's my only doll, I'm also in Kansas. I am greatly amused. Maybe our dolls should just be friends!

From a storytelling point of view I think when I eventually create photostories I would prefer to have her in her own world.

 

they are normally in their own world with things their size. But when it comes to box openings I switch it up so they know they are little people. It makes fun stories that way. I chronicle Emily's story with her friends or I do a 'taking Yoko to work' and have Yoko play at my store.

 

I try to make things suit their size. As if they were real sized humans, not dolls or people in another realm. I see my area and try to imagine where they would all live, how they would get to work and where their owrk would be

 

Mine are definitely on their own. Occasionally one will make an oblique reference to "The Landlady" but I'm never an active part of any story. It's their world, I just man the camera.

 

I think it all depends on how I'm feeling at the time. I like the idea of all three really

 

I think a variety is always fun--I enjoy looking at Photostories of dollies in their own little realm, and ones that are in ours. If...not that makes any sense at all.

 

first off, *you're (it's ok, everyone makes mistakes)

My dolls have two separate stories for MSD and SD+ sizes, both of which live in their own "alternate universes" per say.

I made their living spaces unique to where they live etc. and all of my photos I try to have themes to show their "environment"

 

My dolls live in the same world as me but! they also live in a universe that's for them alone.
It's kind of mixed up, but basically they belong to a more magical place and as such they're somewhere in the middle, since they also belong to me.

sounds complicated.. but only because I don't really know how to describe it properly x)

 

My dolls have their own reality. Sometimes it's close to my world in time or in not-so-distant future, sometimes it's deep past, sometimes it's alternative reality, but definitely they are independent and separated from me. Moreover, most of my dolls are from different stories and universes.