Developing Ideas with the idea of abstraction.

Simply covering the face with a veil.

70 mph winds really didn't help me on this shoot at all. I wanted it to be windy but the beach at Formby was far to dangerous to film or use any kind of equipment bar my camera. She almost looks stencilled in because I dressed the model in a black dress to create a natural contrast.

MY previous shoot reminded me a lot of Arnulf Rainer's art where he paints over printer images.

I haven't named this set of four images. Using my lovely boyfriend once again I asked him to stand in the studio behind a wall of perspex and covered his face in white make up. I crushed up a very large amount of chalk and blew it onto the perspex to create abstract sections in the image where you can't see the face. I wanted him to blend into his surroundings to create the illusion of the way he was feeling. Coming up to the end of the year when everyone has an almost crippling amount of work to get done for deadlines you feel as if your head is going to explode. By merging him into the white background and creating these random sections of colour I've illustrated the way his ideas and his mind are everywhere and he can't keep control of his own stress and emotion.

Here are a few simple design ideas I've put together for my final piece before I find out exactly what size and shape my space will be for my final exhibition. All in all I am looking at using three or more television screens to play my short films or clips and then a selection of portraits on the wall presented as still photography rather than the moving image. I want music to be a huge part of my exhibition. Instead of people just going to have a look I want it to be a kind of experience where people are immersed in what is going on around them and I can push my thoughts feelings and ideas upon them without them even realising.

Stop Motion Four.

Here I have played around with the idea of using clothes while using the stop motion technique. Inspired by the Joost Vandebrug video. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT! 

Stop Motion - Third Attempt

In this third attempt I used a fish eye lens to distort the image slightly. Instead of continually shooting I asked the model to move into positions then would take seperate shots to make the final video a little more jerky and jumpy.