Fantasy Shoot 5 - Letters in the Forest

Plans for the shoot:

My plan for this shoot is based on an image I once saw on Tumblr where somebody had created an authentic-looking road sign made of wood, with each arrow pointing in the direction of a well-known Fantasy land. I want to take the names of a few of these well known Fantasy lands, cut them out of letters like I had done in the previous shoot and hang them from trees in the nearby woods. I also plan to experiment by sticking them to the trees ad securing them to skewers and standing them in the ground.






Evaluation:

I actually really enjoyed this shoot, despite being worried about pulling off a relatively large shoot on my own. I would say it's the shoot that has produced the most shots I have EVER done, as I was in the forest for nearly 2 hours shooting on my own. It was a really interesting experience as it actually led to me developing a strong idea for my exam. I think the ideas definitely worked well, and I now want to potentially do this idea again, but take more time and effort in the preparation stages to complete the 'look'. For quickness, I cut very basic letters out of the paper, and actually they looked quite sloppy, whereas I think I should have used an existing font and cut them out more neatly, but this is something I will take into consideration when I do my shoot. Sticking the letters and the arrows to the trees worked really well and created an effective look when you could see multiple trees in the frame at different depths. However, I should have thought about the sunlight and the colour of the paper as this made it more difficult to see the text against the colour of the trees, and I should have also spent more time choosing which trees to use as it was hard to find a set of trees which were close enough together to all clearly fit in one frame. With some of the letters I also hung them from the branches - again another effective look but went wrong at times because of the wind effecting the letters' positions. Finally, I found a nice spot near the stream which allowed me to get right up close to the water without getting wet. This provided a really nice backdrop for the letters which I stuck in the ground, spelling out 'Atlantis' the famous underwater kingdom. The stream backdrop provided a nice effect for the photos as it allowed the text to reflect and add to the theme of the text. This part of the shoot is what I want to develop for my exam, as I know this particular location will be great for a mermaid shoot. There is space for my model to sit without having to get too wet and I would love to create underwater-themed silhouette shapes to stick in the ground similar to the letters I have tried today to create a pop-up like setting for my mermaid 'story'.