Own images deconstructionHere 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.