Brainstorm Of Ideas

Water doplets

Wetting photograph

Running ink

Drawing over water

Wet ripped paper

Water over drawing

Low shutter speed

 

Mood Board

Photographs collected from the internet based on the type of photographs i'd like to create.

Filters

These photographs were taken as part of a homework task, in which I had to use filters to distort or change the colour of the lens / photograph. Below are my four best photos along with the objects i used as filters.

Curved Plastic

Window

Bottle

Wine Bottle

Digital Experimentation

Tilt Shift

Montage

Experimental Title Page

Evaluation

 

My final piece for my documentary project is my video which includes a small portion of the photographs taken while on my trip to Birmingham. I am happy with most of the photographs that I took, though I only wanted to include a small amount in my video.

 

Overall I think the video turned out well. The intention for it was to help the viewer be immersed in the environment that I photographed, using sounds that are appropriate to that environment. I used a large amount of sound effects, some of which I recorded myself and some I used from various YouTube videos. This is one of the weak points of the video, as I would have preferred to record all of the sound effects myself, though I found it hard to get some specific sounds and so this is when I had to use other sources instead. Aside from this, I think the sound effects work very well, and do help immersion.

 

I am also happy with the photographs that I selected. I wanted the video to have 3 sections – city, market and outskirts. The city would show more build up areas and roads, while the market shows the busy streets during the German market and the outskirts showing the more run down areas filled with factories and litter. I feel that this was shown fairly well, although I could have included more photographs of the market, as there were very few, and for some of them it is hard to tell that they were taken during the market

 

I feel that the editing for the video was appropriate to the environment. Most of the video is fairly slow paced with each photo fading into the next, though for the photographs inside the shopping centre, I instead used cuts which were in time with the loud noises heard in the background audio. I think this is appropriate as in the shopping centre people were moving a lot faster, and so the pace was faster. Other than that, I think some of the timings for the photographs could be improved, as some were on longer than they should have been, and others were not on for long enough.

 

In conclusion, I am happy with my final piece and the unique way it was conveyed - via the use of audio. There are small issues with the timings such as some images being shows for too long or not long enough, although these are things that are quite difficult to notice unless you’ve watched it multiple times. I am also happy with the photographs that I took, in terms of the composition and lighting. My favourite of these photographs are the one taken on the ‘outskirts’ where it is a lot dirtier and run down. This is because I find this environment a lot more interesting, and so there is a lot more I can do with it.



Final Outcomes

My main aim for this video was to give the viewer immersion into the photographs though ways that photographs can’t convey. I decided to use sound to accompany these photographs which would reflect the events portrayed in the photograph, as well as sounds that I heard while taking them. Most of the audio was recorded by myself, although for some areas where I needed more sound or more specific sounds I used some sound effects from YouTube instead. The audio reflects the subject matter of the photograph, and so where there are less people more ambient and natural sounds can be heard, though while still being set in a very built up location, cars can still be heard driving by.


The best way to view this video would be with headphones, as it will give more of a sense of the sound being around you - therefore increasing the immersion.

Short Story

Main Image

Action Shot

Establishing Shot

Close Up

Close Up