#4

How does the light and weather change what we see? As the weather transforms and will evermore continue to do so, we are immersed within it. Us, the landscape and it’s perpetually changing form is hard to tease apart, henceforth, we feel among these changes. Upon closely considering this notion, I had figured that as the weather is a mere “experience of light” and that “as the weather changes, so does the look and feel of the world we inhabit,” our perception of the world can be altered by said natural forces. When wanting to portray this on-screen, I exhibited the very intimate association between the weather (thus light) and its effects on emotionality. In doing this, I depicted a very personal space where I most primarily reside and (through narration) suggest how the amount of light that I allow into this space can truly form the way in which I feel and think.  

Some notes about what I discovered about the experience of light and vision:

• Through experimenting with different camera settings, angles and techniques I truly was able to better explore light as a subject. I was able to either enhance or diminish the appearance of light to my favour and in doing this I was able to create very opposing and evocative visual effects. 
• Choosing to either heighten or lower the cameras receptivity to light had quite an impact on visual textures, giving or removing attention from certain objects due to lighting choices.

Some notes about what worked well and what didn’t work quite so well:

• I quite liked the overall aesthetic of this piece. I found that without any intent, a significant amount of the raw footage appeared quite bleak and monochromatic, which I was pleased with the appearance of. Furthermore, some footage didn’t appear this way, so within post-production, I lowered the level of saturation. This lack of colouring allows for more attention to be drawn to details within the textures. 
• I feel as if my voice-over narration could have been approved upon. I wanted to utilise audio effects on my voice as I felt that would just help to provide another element of interest to the piece. However, I should perhaps give sound editing some more practice as it was not executed as well as I had hoped.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k6lnrZNPyM54-G10B50BIdk_OrqGkvnz