HIDDEN TRIAL

Experimenting further with the idea of the red ribbons.

TRIAL SHOTS

Moving with the Theme

I have expanded my theme  into that of emotions represented entirely by the ribbon. Whereas before I was looking at the evolving of a personality hiding their ‘scars’ so to speak and gradually revealing them- I have taken a step back and am purely representing various emotions with-

The Nature of the Ribbon

I really want my idea to explore how something as simple as a coloured piece of ribbon could demonstrate something that can be felt. As you can see from the trial images so far, I have started to experiement with various looks of the ribbon but I am now developing this into a series of emotions evolving throughout the piece.

Beginning with NEGATIVE FEELINGS

 

Developing into POSITIVE ONES.

After the various sketches I continued to experiment with the photography. I am very happy with the looks of the shots and have carried this one with high exposure and ISO. I have also started to consider encoperating the idea of animation- ever so slightly to represent un ravelling ribbons/ gently moving ones.

A few more shots- prep for final shoot

 Aiming to involve a shot with a shoe- this trial is just playing with composition and the general idea. What I will do with the final shoot is use a much more stiletto shoe that is a different colour. I do like the look of the red white and blue but it does draw from the purpose of the red on white. I will perhaps choose a red shoe (or maybe not to overload on the red) try a a black 0ne. The main staple of this pic really has to be the red.

Experimenting with a different angle- really like the perspective and focus of this along with the white shapes either side of the heel, however for my idea it is really the composition above that will add to the concept. 

Just playing with another idea of a taut ribbon. Not a great shot but really for prep purposes- the final shot will be much more face on- there won’t be the slight angle plus the colouring will be slightly better and the shot more in focus.

These are a couple of short experiments with stop motion approach.

I have considered this being a filmic piece and am still unsure whether to pursue this with either straight forward film or animation technique. For the strange quality of the ribbon sort of ‘acting of it’s own accord’ animation may work however it is also extremely time consuming and not always effective. Film has a lovely smoothness to it but again would envolve a lengthy process of logging and capturing and also would be difficult when creating the moving ribbon scenes.

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