Own images deconstruction

Here is a

deconstruction of

the images that I

took whilst at the

location of our

film, ready to use in

the creation of a

poster and

magazine.

This is the first image that I captured. There

was quite a lot of negatives about this image.

I arranged the set up of the character behind

a tree to create a mysterious look. However

in this first image, the flash that I had used

was too bright and made the character too

visible. It also made it look as though it was

in the daylight which wasn’t what I wanted.

I then got her to stand further back with the

depth of field and focus on the tree in front.

The lighting has improved yet it was still too

bright for what I had imagined.

This time I tried a movement shot. I quite liked

this as you could visibly see the swaying of her

dress. The characters face is also not very

visible which doesn’t give away too much of

what the character looks like. I tried to capture

both landscape and portrait images so that I

would have a range of sizes and shaped to work

with when it came to making my magazine and

poster.

I tried that image again however the

flash on this was too bright.

After playing around with the camera, I discovered

different settings. For these images I used a setting called

‘pinhole’ which gave the image a black edge and darkened

shadows and highlighted the brightness. This effect was

perfect, it made the background dark making it look like

night time and made the character more mysterious and

eerie. I decided to take a close up shot so that I could try

and use completely different images for my magazine and

my poster to give the audience more hints as to what the

character to look like. I did like the focus on the branches

in the image, however I still felt as though the character was

still too visible. Yet I decided to carry on and try and take

some more images using this setting.

This image worked much better. I stood further

away so that the character would almost appear to

be lurking. The darkness of this photograph was

clos to what I wanted however, I could still work

with this as I could edit it using Photoshop to

make it appear darker. There is red eye captured

in this photograph, however I feel it works well, it

gives the character an almost demon like feel

about her.

This image was certainly an

improvement. The background was

darker and the character blended in

with that. If I were to use this on my

poster, I’d want this kind of hidden

character idea so that when looking at

the poster it will shock the audience

when they spot the character in the

background.

Once again, the darker

background works well

here, however I didn’t

really like her posture too

much in this shot.

In these two images, I instructed Zuzie to stand behind the

tree in which we’d carved. By doing this it revealed a slight

clue to the audience viewing it as to what would be involved

in this film, and about the plot.

I then went even further and explored more settings on the camera and came across this which was called

‘film grain’. I really liked this look of almost film noir footage, and that it was already black and white.

Likewise with the pinhole the background was made darker and the character appeared more

visible, however I think this worked. I positioned her so that she’s almost a distorted figure and that she

was creeping up the tree. As she was great at adapting into her role, she then pulled mysterious faces and

hid behind her hair, which worked really well and connoted a sense of creepiness.

I remained with that theme and captured

this image. This was one of my favourites

for the final choice to use for my

ancillary task. Her face is barely visible

which makes it mysterious and

endearing, the background remains dark

and it’s quite a dirty picture which gave a

bigger affect to her character who is

supposed to have lived in the wild for 30

years.

The dirtiness of her hands was

something that I wanted to remain the

same so that I could use it for one of my

ancillary tasks. I felt that her face gave

away innocence and her eyes really

connected with the camera which would

draw in the audience, however I still felt

that it was too bright.

This image is like the last, I continuously used

the film grain affect which made the

background dark, however Zuzie, as the

character has been exposed to too much flash

and she was too visible. The face that she’s

modelling here is very innocent once again

and almost looks sad.

Same setting, however this face is a

little more eerie, which works

really well in terms of attracting the

audience when they walk past it or

just happen to see it.

For this image, I took a portrait shot of Zuzie in the

distance. This didn’t work so well as she’s barely visible

and most likely too far away, however the way in which

the trees are positioned give them almost a haunting

feel. They’re stood tall and seem long, thin and spindly

which makes them seem over-powering and almost

personifying them. This is the kind of uneasy feeling I

want the audience to take away from seeing this poster

of magazine and in turn want to watch the film.

For this, I reverted back to the pinhole

setting. I tried using it without the flash

and it gave a much darker image. I wanted

to capture movement again, and asked her

to run away from the camera. I still think

in this shot she was too far away.

This image was one of my favourites. There are a lot

of positives in this image. This is a landscape

shot, which like the poster for ‘The Ring’ would

work well as a poster and be different. The darkness

is mainly around the character giving it this aspect of

a halo around her, a light glowing from her which

could be a binary opposition of the character that she

plays. The trees are very tall once again, and they’re

facing all different ways which gives it an uneasy feel

and they appear distorted. The distance between the

camera and the character is how I wanted it, she’s

not too far away, yet not so far away that she’s not

visible to the audience. The only thing I’d change

about this image would be the brightness, I would try

and dull it down so that it wasn’t so light around her.

Once again, I really though this was

successful. The movement is very eerie, and

initially it’s hard to spot the character which

would work well in trying to entice the

audience. The movement is almost 3D and it

appears as though she’s running at the

camera and out of the poster. If I were to use

this image I would have to make it lighter.

For these next two images I changed the positioning of the character.

For the first shot, I took a close up image of half of her face, so that

it would still have the elements of a mystery character. The second

image, I took a close up image using no flash and the characters full

face. As it was quite a windy day, it blew her hair onto her face

hiding features which worked well and maintained the mystery effect

that I wanted. However, these image could be made brighter using

photoshop.

For these two, I decided to completely change

around the positioning and focus on one part of

the body. I didn’t want to use her face or body for

this and experimented with her hands. I asked her

to grab hold of her dress, almost as though it was

draping out of her hand and took the picture so

that only half of her waist was in it. I thought this

was quite successful and her hands looked quite

dirty, which I really liked the effect of.

For the final image for the poster I decided to use this picture. I chose this

one because it was very mysterious. The length between the character and the

camera is the almost perfect length for the focus of the audience. I would

make this darker using Photoshop and try out different effects. Where the

trees are thin and spindly, it gives an eerie effect and connotes cold where

trees are bare in the winter. The way in which the character is positioned

gives the audience time to try and find her, and when they do, the effect it will

give is a shock.