Ancillary texts

For my website I decided I wanted to make it a bit more visually exciting and so I made a GIF of the close-up pan of Emma's wings.

Finally!

Finally I was able to film the hyper lapse, however it still didn't go entirely to plan. I filmed the hyper lapse of the sunset 7 times in total. However every time I filmed the sunset, wither the camera was too shaky or the clouds were completely blocking the sun. In the end I had to settle with a hyper lapse taken at sunset, however it is not the sun you can see dipping out of view, instead you can see a dark ominous cloud coming towards the camera. I felt that although it was not what I wanted, The cloud passing over the sky had a similar meaning, in the sense that the darkness was coming and that all light would be lost.

Linking my media project with my art exam

For my art project I chose to link it to the music video I created to the song Change (in the house of flies). For my art exam I am doing the anguished figure and I felt that the fairy in my piece was both physically and mentally anguished. I painted my fairy in acrylic paint and chose to paint a close up shot of her crying as you can see below.

Hyperlapse-research

When researching hyperlapses of sunsets I wanted to see similar pieces for inspiration and to feed off of what was already out there. Here are some I looked at when researching hyperlapses.

Filming the young girl

In the beginning of my piece, after the hyperlapse of the reversed sunset, there are a number of shots of the young girl who later turns into the fairy. At this point in my piece she is still human and then as soon as the close up shots of her features and the older fairy's mark the transition from child to teenager and human to fairy. Within the middle of my piece I noticed that I had, in my shotlist, decided to keep the shots only of the fairy and then go back to shots of the young girl at the end. Along with many other parts of my piece, when filming I decided I wanted to alter this. I thought it would look better and be easier to understand if while the older fairy is crying and laying in a ball on the floor, after her wings have been ripped off, there are flashback shots of her younger self. One of the main shots of her young self that I wanted to include was the younger fairy being the one to blow the glitter away. If you look at my first draft of my piece in the rushers review, you can see that on the line 'blow me away' I decided to just use a repeated shots of the glitter running through the fingers. I decided to change this. I thought it would be more powerful and emotional if her younger self was the one blowing the glitter, her power and happiness, away.

I chose to do this because many victims blame themselves. 'If I hadn't of been there it wouldn't of happened','If I hadn't of trusted them then I wouldn't of got myself in that situation' and in this case 'If I hadn't of been so naïve he would not of hurt me.' I really wanted to involve some of this concept of the abuse being self inflicted and the victims fault within my piece and so that is why I included the younger girl blowing the glitter rather than it just being anonymous hands. I thought this would have a more relatable and powerful affect on the audience as within daily life it is common for people to blame themselves rather than the real perpetrator.

Update

Post have been infrequent due to focussing on filming and my ancillary texts. So far I have collected all my shots of both the younger girl and the fairy however I am still working on my hyperlapse of the sunrise. I have found filming the hyperlapse to be the most difficult part of filming. So far I have filmed it two times without it coming out the way I would like. The first time filming my hyperlapse of the sunset I encountered issues with the weather. The weather made it virtually impossible for the camera to stay still due to my placement of the tripod having to be on top of a trampoline in order to get a good view. So I decided to re-film. I filmed the sunset a second time and although this time the camera was completely still, the clouds completely covered the sunset. This meant you could not even see the sun set and so I shall have to film again.


What make the hyperlapse the most difficult thing to film is that whereas I can control my actresses, I am unable to control the weather and so it doesn't always go according to plan.