Test Shoot - Bristol

After a cancelled shoot I decided it would be easier to film in Bristol where my actress lives. I went for a location reccy and these are the locations I am looking at filming at. They are open landscapes with water surrounding, the bridges have traffic so in the distance it will appear as if life is still going on for everybody else, even though the girl is in an emotional state.

Isolated Laura 1st Edit

Isolated Laura 1st Edit by laura-wilkinson

This is the first attempt at sound for my video. I have decided to record trees swaying and also the creaking noise trees make. I wanted to blend this with the sound of voices saying words like isolation, lost, vulnerable and hurt. It still need work but it is a good start.

Test Shoot - Groby Pool

I have been on a location reccy today and found an ideal place called Groby pool, the water is clear and there is easy access to the edge for the reflection shot. These images show the reflection shots and the landscape of the environment. At this point this is looking like my most likely location. The weather plays an important part in my film, and I would like the sun to look like this!

America's Next Top Model Cycle 15 - Motion Editorial by Tyra Banks

After watching America's Next Model I was really inspired by this motion editorial, the way it has been shot is something I would like to recreate one day. Although it is not really anything like my Isolation film the character mood and pacing of the video could be similiar to what I am trying to achieve.

Maya Deren At Land Pt.1

Deren's second experimental film, At Land (1944), reinforces her interest in the juxtaposition of anachronistic spaces and introduces a critique of social rituals. This film begins by reversing the natural rhythm with images of waves breaking and descending back into the sea. Starring again, Deren is seen climbing up a dead tree trunk on the beach, magically emerging onto a table where a formal dinner party is in progress. This 'civilized' world ignores Deren as she crawls along their dinner table. By depicting herself as invisible to the diners, Deren highlights the myopia of the guests. The dinner sequence in At Land ends with an enchanted chess game. A pawn falls from the table and descends back into the dead wood on the beach, it falls over rocks, into the water and is washed away over the waterfalls. Chasing the pawn, Deren is restored to her original landscape.

Maya Deren At Land Pt.2

I decided to research women's emotional fears by developing an online survey; the survey was posted to all of my facebook female friends and asked questions about women’s physical and emotional fears/phobias and their physical and emotional dreams/ambitions.I received around fifty responses, and found the results of women’s emotional fears were of particular interest to me. The majority of the responses were how women are scared of ending up alone, being left by there loved one or a life without a love. The response gave me a new inspiration and focus and I asked myself the question of why women felt this way and could not face being alone?