REFLECTION 14 – ILLUMINATION

This is a reflection on project brief 3, the one I forgot to post ages ago.

 

As part of the practical requirement of the previous project brief we all had to collate and edit a piece that had a common theme or idea present throughout the clip. After going through all the clips everyone else in class recorded I was inspired by shadows, and so went out to record more footage playing the shadows, movement within them, and how there’s a complete world living within those shadows mirroring reality.

The movement within them and around a few clips with shadows made me want to explore other ways people can almost travel in them. Seeing shadows across the screen instead of the people or objects they reflect forces us to associate the shadow to a person, and think of it as a living being. I recorded more footage of me walking, but framed the camera to capture only the reflections and shadows I cast while walking. It showed how the original in an obstructed way, and allowed me to just play with what we see in reality. The piece in summary is about the reflection of reality,  and its a illusion to what is there. It’s about subjectivity, on how the observer perceives these projected images that shadows and light creates.