Filming

This was the aftermath of a filming session with my friend for my piece. I filmed a series of shots of substances falling through their hands. The first was glitter. The glitter falling through the finger tips was to represent the freedom slipping out of the fairies grip. Next was the green glitter falling. Whereas the glitter drifted out of my friends hands, the green glitter glooped through and resembles the fairies blood sleeping through the hands of the one that betrayed her. The final series of shots I took were of blood dripping through the perpetrators hands. Blood was used not only to show the audience that all had turned sinister, but also to represent that the hurt, pain and suffering the fairy felt is not just a story, but that it is applicable to humans too. The use of blood brings more of a touch of reality to the piece and makes it seem less like fiction and more like true life.

I filmed these shots in front of different coloured bushes. I filmed the first shots of the glitter falling in front of a thriving green bush. I did this to show that at this point things were still hopeful and savable. I also did this to make a larger contrast between the shots I filmed of the blood dripping which were filmed in front of a yellowing, autumnal bush. I did this as a form of pathetic fallacy, with the change in the health of the bush representing the decline in her own health and well being and the change from thriving to decaying.