Exhibition | Portraits and Still Life

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Exhibition | Portraits and Still Life

These photos are in a Rembrandt/Caravaggio style, using dramatic lighting to express the subjects faces, and to also bring out texture and highlights/shadows within the fruit. The black backgrounds help create a contrast within the images, adding drama to the image.

I chose to do 2 males, 1 female, and 2 still life. The 2 males act as protectors for the female, who will be entered to show her power and beauty, whilst the still life images of fruit help a add border to the sequence of images. This adds a narrative to the images, and when they will be displayed the order will show this layout of the images.

The images will either be displayed in and around bushes, to contrast with the golden frames, and to also link to the natural feeling to the images, with the fruit, and natural looking lighting. Also, as the images are in the Rembrandt style, I feel that nature represents that era well, due to the less developed time.

Another place my images may be displayed, would be in a local pub; an old style building that has been modernised. My images would be on a bookshelf, along side old books to help link in to the era.

Sound and Vision | Hand Photos

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Hand Photos

This is an example of how I created the portrait through photos of hands. Each hand has been cropped into a square to suit the features within the portrait which the square is covering. I then angled the hand to create a more realistic feature, not just static, allowing the hands to act like hair or different shaded areas like the nose or lips.

When put onto the grid, I then changed the colour of the photo to black and white, and also made the colour darker to represent shading within the portrait.

Sound and Vision | Final

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Final

I feel this is my finished video, and has been completed to how I wanted it to be. It would be better if each individual square had been animated on its own, but I feel I have overcome this issue by creating segments, which build up over time. The portrait overall is a successful image, as it has taken a lot of inspiration from Justin Roths images, but I have put my own take onto it, by adding smaller squares to create a less harsh grid, making the image more appealing to view. The image is black and white to reduce the human side of the image, to represent a more digital side, as well as making it easier to develop the portrait and its textures and shadows.

With editing the portrait into a video, I feel this was a very successful project, as most animations where on the beat as I would have hoped for, a long with some beats being left out to develop a more humanistic piece, allowing the music to play on its own for some beats, letting the audience appreciate the music, as well as adding suspense to the image being created on screen. The fades in the film help the portrait react more with the music, as the first time it happens is on a crash, letting the image fade out as a crash cymbal would.

I felt like putting the main titles at the end, as it shows the final image at the end, so hopefully the audience only understand the film when they have seen it all the way through. Also the use of orange in the titles is due to being my favourite colour, yet expanding the way in which this project is for the whole self, as previously stated in earlier posts.

The sound track I created on the music producing software Reason, which enables unrestricted creativity when coming to creating music. I chose to created a jazz styled beat, due to liking the genre, and also taking inspiration from the Birdman title sequence, with its broken jazz styled drums, animating the text to appear on the beat of the drums. I felt like I have created a similar effect with my film, by animating the segments on the beat, therefor creating a successful piece which is a clear representation of sound and vision combined.