Evaluation of short film

My topic was motion so i had a wide margin to work with, i wanted something with adrenalin, pace and excitement, my passion is motorcycling and i really enjoyed the chance to film myself riding, i have captured many different camera angles and this has produced a good example of motion, i have also included pictures but with an effect to add to the adrenalin, i have added timelapse and clips from other sources, i have chosen the song 'Coloris' by 'SHE' as this is a good quality soundtrack to match the mood of the short film, i chose a ride where i can get a great view bit also where there could be some traffic so that i can get a filtering shot in which i can then speed up, i went up to Bidborough ridge and filmed the A21 as that is a great view, the road is also very smooth the camera was relatively still, to counteract the negative effect road bumps i attached the camera to my crash helmet as my body absorbs all the bumps giving a smooth running film.


During editing i used a number of techniques including fad in and fade out to go with the flow of the film, i also used a function called ease in and ease out which rounds off the zooming. scrolling effect across some of the photos to stop them juddering, if i were to repeat this with more time i would have had a chase car and possibly another motorcycle to add to the excitement, the timing also wasn't the best as the time of year wasn't great weather for motorcycling, so i had to take it relatively slow.

Poster art

This is the Poster art pice which i have produced, i have used given materials and external items aswell

using photoshop i used these methods

1.  Lasso tool to highlight the part of the image you want.
2. Hue/Saturation, i needed to change the Hue of all images to change the colour and also degrade the quality to add noise to them.
3. Burning, some images were overexsposed so i had to burn them to rectify this

here is the final print

Star trails

I wanted to take a few pictures using a camera timer unfortunately when i had it ordered it got delayed in customs so when it finally arrived i could only do a few shots with the lack of stars i had, i had to make my own neutral density filter out of a tinted piece of acrylic to limit  the light entering the shutter, these are the results

The shutter delay timer itself, made by Phottix

the star trail prints achieved both at 15 mins

 

Short Film

We have been making a short film in class, for my film i decided to go out on my motorcycle and film me riding from different positions as well as other motion clips chopped into the whole mix to make an impressive short film,

the camera i used was my Motorsports GoPro Hero HD camera,





 i then strapped this camera to my motorcycle helmet using the provided mount, this finished article was similar to this:

this provided me with a great hands free way to record my motorcycling footage, the mount was also adjustable so could be altered even whilst riding, i think that my video will be good but will need some smoother editing to make it look more professional

Toning

This lesson we used two different toners, sepia, giving a bronzed effect and the other being a deep blue.

• The first step was to have sample prints to test with. Soak each print in water.
• Then once left to soak for about a minute, if toning with

- The sepia, bleach the print for two minutes, then remove and rinse of excess toner

- With the blue toner bleaching is not necessary as the bleach was mixed in with the toner.

• Finally the print would be left in the toner, for any amount of time to achieve the desired effect
• During the toner it's the metallic silver which is converted into a sulfide compound. A good example of a professional who is known for their toning is Henry Fox Talbot, he is one of the major Victorian photographers, he used sepia toning for many of his photographs. Just below to the right is an example of his work.

I have a double page spread in my photography book with my toning examples

We have been planning a short film for a while now and i have had the idea of filming myself on my motorcycle, i will have clips of me riding with various viewpoints, many which are unusual but have a good effect, i think thta one of the best viewpoints hads got to be wormseye, i love this effect because it has an empowering factor, my motorcycle has a mean image and so will go well coupled with wormseye as well as black and white, the music will be of my choice and i will sample a number of tracks which i think suit

Group Light Box - Mike & I

A light box or tent is used alongside studio lighting to soften the harsh strobe flash from studio lighting. The school had just bought one so we were trying it out. Here are the first photographs using the light box and I like what it does to the pictures, gives them a more natural feel to them. The picture to the right is the light box from the outside (just setting the scene) Inside we chose to create a road scene using card for a road, grass, leaves and rocks for the roadside and toy cars for the crashed up cars. we had to shed the grass and leaves into miniture size to make it more realistic, we then took the pictures in macro to make the cars look bigger than they are and try to recreate a realistic scenario, we also tried to take them from a point of view of a person on the ground to give it a realistic effect.