About my project progress, I have done all the research and also prepared all the props needed to be used in this project. I invited my friend as my model and came over to my apartment for three days.
For the project I choose, it will demonstrate the blues as I shared in my last week’s blog post. After finishing some research online and checked on some artists’ excellent work, I am going to use plastic wrap to create a blocked area at a corner in my apartment. Which is a metaphor for being locked down at home. I used a dome light at the top left to make the light and shadow on the model’s face. Luckily, plastic wrap created a depressed atmosphere with the light reflection. And after editing it in Lightroom, the black and white portray the model’s blue mood. I also put some noise on the photographs to help create the feeling.
Untitled, Chloe Zheng, 2020
I also come up with the ideas that ask my model to be like an o’clock to show the time flies which were shot at a wide shot overhead. The object is small which shows she was in the general environment by the bad influence. I used masks to show the situation and the inspiration is from Tangled (2010), the princess uses her hair to escape and I choose to knit a long mask to escape from this pandemic situation.
Another idea from BTS’s music video Blood, sweat & tears Japanese version (Lumpenss, 2017) that for me is quite psycho, the character that looks like in a high contrast colour psychedelic world. So I turned down the shutter to see my model struggling.
After I finished shooting at night, I edited it in Lightroom and tried to see some archival clips in my phone that I could use in this project. I mixed all the stuff in Premiere to see if it worked or not. The next challenge is to find the appropriate background music to build up the story line.