Plans for the shoot:
My plan for the shoot today is to explore one of my ideas of stringing letters to spell out words associated with the theme of Fantasy. I am going to use the word 'Wonderland' today for an Alice In Wonderland themed shoot, and I will use a font that reflects this. Then I will cut each letter out and string them between the two ladders in the studio and experiment with hanging them up in different orders, heights etc. I am going to use the cyan blue backdrop in the studio as I think this reflects the movie nicely as Alices' dress in the cartoon was of a similar colour and it will also contrast quite nicely with the black letters. Today I also want to make an animation with the letters, which I can do by photographing the same still image every time I cut a different letter off, but I will have to do this at the very end of my shoot so that I don't have to tie them all back up again afterwards.
Shoot Evaluation:
I am really happy with the result of this shoot - the idea worked really well and I can't wait to develop it. This was potentially something that I wanted to explore in my exam so I saw this as a bit of a practice, and I could definitely potentially do this again with more complex objects. I am also going to develop the idea by taking the letters outside into different locations. For this time only, I think the thicker string worked well as it was associated with a cartoon, but for my exam pieces if I do the same technique, I will use thin fishing wire to make it seem that the letters are magically 'floating'.
This is the animation I created. I like the flow of the letters and how they aren't all in a perfect line, giving the impression that they are actually about to fall. However, I wish I had waited and thought about the sequence as I think it would have made more sense for the letters to fall from left to right, and it's not as simple as reversing the sequence as it would then look like the letters are jumping back up rather than falling.
This is a computer experiment I conducted with one of the shots. I took a rainbow gradient and reduced the opacity to give off a magical look. I like the effect and it does change the mood of the image entirely, but this could definitely work better on a different shoot, such as location work.
With this image I added a text layer and used the same font which I cut the text out from to complete the title of the film as another computer experiment. I also darkened the edges which I think makes the colour look even more effective and moody - almost resembling the opening sequence for the film.
I chose to use this shoot to conduct the theme of Photojoiner as I liked how disjointed the hanging letters would look, and especially as you can still read what the text says, I think I have done a good job with the technique.
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