Proposal - abstract fear

Fear is a reaction to feeling threatened - a phobia is an extreme, often completely irrational, version of this.

There are some phobias that are common - heights, swimming etc. where the person with the phobia's life may be jeopardised. Others have very little sense behind them - such as pulsophobia, the fear of peas, and cacophobia, the fear of ugliness.

For my project I would like to focus on this aspect of fear - vaguely ridiculing it, making the object of fear as unpretentious as possible, but then placing it in a poster setting and using horror movie names - changing to suit the object - such as a bucket full of blood, changed to a bucket full of fish. 

A phobia is the generally irrational fear of something. Such as fear of speaking in public - one of the few fears that are not routed in death and the unknown. The difference between fear and phobia is distinct. Phobia leads to the deliberate avoidance of the problem, fear is the reaction to the problem. Phobia is also different to dislike – you may dislike slugs, but that doesn’t mean you fear them.

Some irrational fears you can understand; some, however are funny. I would like to focus on these entertaining fears, like the fear of ‘a solitary baked bean’ and plants.

I would like to make the objects/words I use look as unassuming as possible, but not going as far as a bright lit studio - slightly ridiculing the actual fear. However, I will then twist this and turn the image in a film-esq poster, using creepy fonts and rearranging, changing existing horror film names to use on the posters, e.g. A Beard Reality, as opposed to A Darker Reality; A Smelly Man, as opposed to A Drowning Man, etc.

I am only planning to create posters, I shall not create a cinema lobby, cinema wall etc. I would like to have the posters on the windows, with the light coming through them; but if that's not possible, or doesn't work

Schedule:
wk 1: come up with ideas
wk 2: take photos/edit
wk 3: exhibit, evaluate

Resources:
camera; objects; props;
printing - use print shop