Tuesday 13 January 2015

Unit 11 - Visual inspiration

Visual inspiration for the psychoanalytical film unit, using Lens Culture (www.lensculture.com)

Scott Houston (www.scotthoustonphoto.com) is a documentary photographer and film maker, whose work is concerned with the cultural, social and political landscape of contemporary America. In the body of work shown below, 'Company Men', he scoured the streets of New York City in the culture of male corporate workers. The photographs show the bustle of business workers in a city, which I hope to emulate, using the time-lapse technique to show isolation and the speed that people move without notice for their surroundings.

Steve Meyler (www.stevemeyler.com) focuses on landscape photography, capturing shots with dramatic lighting, including dark shadows and bursts of light (as shown below). Some of his other images do not feature similar striking lighting, but does show vast expansive countryside and extreme loneliness, featuring not a single person.

Djinane Alsuwayeh's (www.djinanealsuwayeh.com) body of work, 'Histories Urbaines' contains some powerful lighting techniques, capturing subjects from the side with minimal lighting, lighting only poart of their face. I plan to use split lighting in my film to show a split personality and demonstrate my understanding of how effective different lighting techniques can be.

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