Hidden in Nature

Hidden in nature

Hidden in Nature

I have watched many fantasy based films to get some ideas of how to show the story of my childs strong fantasy belief, and to get ideas of different ways of framing shots and different creative angles. These are some sceenes from A;ice in wonderland, I like the silouted shots and this angle with Alice looking around in amazement at her surroundings, I like how the light is streaming through the trees.

Hidden in Nature

This is a still I have taken from some filming I did in an over grown garden that I have been working in. This image in its true form in the garden is what first gave me my idea for this film. I watched the swing slowly moving in the gentle breeze, it gave me a feeling of something missing, I imagined a child once sitting in the swing laughing, now just a broken image of what once was. The whole garden was so run down and over grown and I have been slowly uncovering many wonders that once were loved parts of a well used garden but now forgotten. A little like the girl in my film when she moved from the country to the city she forgot about the faeries and they disappeared.

Hidden in Nature

These are stills from one of my first trial film shoots, while we were exploring different locations that would best suit the type of scenery I was looking for. I realy like the image of the little toadstil, it's one of those things that fascinate children, and if you believe in faeries then toadstils are a very special sign. I added the blue faery just for an experiment, although I like this image I feel it is to much to actualy show the true form of a faery.

Hidden in Nature

These are some photos I have taken and played around with in photo shop adding faeries, to use as my pictures for story bording my film. This explains the start of my film, the young girl growing up believing in faeries.

Faery images I have cut out in photo shop .

I realy like these blue images for their transparent wings and tiny little forms, not just a glowing light that I have seen. I have cut them out in photo shop and played around with them inserting them into photos I have taken, changing their colour and adding glowing lights around them. Mainly just using them for my presentation to tell my story board for my film and experimentation.

Hidden in Nature

I Like this image because of the thick setting of bush, and obviously the very effective little faery glows. The actual big faery is a little bit to much for what I will be looking to achieve in my film, but this gives a very good picture of what I like. I can achieve affects like this in after affects or animated in photo shop for my film.

Hiding in Nature

These are good images, and great examples of what sort of effects I like especially because it is set in a bush scene.These lights are subtle enough but still they don't belong here.... What are they??? I have been filming, playing with what natural affects I can acheive, I used a mirror to reflect moving lights into the bush, it looked very similar to this.

Hiding in Nature

I like this image because it's similar to what sort of experimenting I would like to play around with, images and lights in the bush.

Hiding in Nature

This is a close up image of the faery skelton..... And another fairy tale fantasy image I liked because of the black silhouette against the purple sky., with the moon which is a mystical object.

Hiding in Nature

I have looked into real encounters with faeries and strange things out of curiosity and found these two images of true findings, mainly to help your belief that there is something out there. Below is a skeleton of a fairy and next to it who would know. I read a few stories of peoples experiences of presences..... mainly in Scotland, I like the idea of "affect" The feeling you get when you become aware of a strange experience. Affect is a non-conscious experience of intensity what we experience, not to be confused with feelings and emotions. I would like to some how this kind of effects in my film.

Personal Project

I've decided to create a short fantasy based film about a child who believes in fairies. Her strong belief crosses over with her imagination confusing the viewer as to what is really happening. Filming in nature and bush settings, with streams and natural sounds of these locations. Then I will animate visual effects into the film work suggesting fairies or an essence of them. I have been collecting images that I like or appeal to me in some way or another. The image to the right caught my attention for the white sparkling lights creating magical feelings. And the image below I like because of the dense bush feeling and the little faery images in the back ground almost blended into the forest.

Personal Project

With this project I would like to realy experiment alot with filming, geting to know my camera, learnig to use it manualy, filming different shots, angels and any other techniques I come across while filming. Then focus on getting to know new programmes like after affects and final cut pro. I have been filming a lot in nature and want to add little animated creatures and effects to create some child like fantsay........... An experience of a childs, that to me feels lost to todays world where children seem to have forgotton how to engage with nature instead they turn to the indoors with technology.....

More sites from the exhibition

This is a close up of my monitor of my finished video work and the stills.

This is the set up of my work. My video work and some still images from my work I placed down the plinth.

Systems Exhibition

This is one of the spaces we exhibited in. And our advertising poster

The photo to the left is an image taken in the middle of the day, very different color and light.
And to the right more examples of shadow.

These photos are quite self explanatory, more long exposure capturing car lights and animals in the street with some exciting light from the sun.

This is a night shot of a car turning up my street using long exposure I captured some movement which I have shown in the second photo which I played with in photo shop by zooming in and cropping, I like how the close up changes the image and makes you think its , like on the water....

The photo on the left I like because of the shadows cast by the sun as it was going down and the silhouette of the trees against the bright light. The photo on the right also has great affects caused from the light, like the tree silhouette, and the yachts on the water. Also this photo was a bit different because there was no color, just dark.

These two photos are both experimental, long exposures. This one on the left was taken at night and captured a lot of light with vibrant bright color, also the trees have very soft edges from long exposure, I like both of these effects. The next photo I was lucky enough to capture a car cruzing down the street with his brake lights on capturing the movement with long exposure.

systems project

This is my subject for my systems project, my steet not the cat. I will be documenting my street with two systems, remoscope video and digital still images.