When it finally came around to creating my final images, I rented out the studio and in all honesty had a great amount of fun. I had a variety of objects which I had brought with me ranging from tiny sweets to light bulbs to an iPod. From there, my friend and I went about destroying them, gouging out there insides and smashing them in the most strategic way I could in order to bring out the most effective shots I could. I had rented out a 100mm Macro lens from Media Loans and knew exactly what I wanted from my images. I wanted to strip objects down to there core.
My work does not consist of a very deep internal narrative which drives the story of the movie, but more of a theme which fluctuates throughout. Some images are grotesque.
Others leave you questioning what the object was at all.
And others are just unnerving as they reveal what lies underneath the surface that we are so comfortable and familiar with.
But, as explained in my previous research, we are fascinated by the unknown, the mutilated or simply intrigued by how every day objects are shown in a completely new light.
When I went about placing my photographs together and to combine them with my sound I ran into a few tiny technicalities. Despite how I initially faltered I soon realised that Technology and myself had never entirely gotten along and I should remain determined. Therefore as you can see in the final product, unfortunately the photographs have black borders in some places. This is due to the filming frame being one side and then some of the cropped photographs suffering slightly from as they were smaller size. The sound I used was a combination of four different sets of sounds. It is subtle but throughout there is juxtaposing notes depending on which pieces are playing. There is the incredibly high pitch screech which is so unsettling I had to turn my volume right down in editing when dealing with it, which is then partnered with an incredibly low sound along with it. This made me think of the theories I had initially been looking at and the how the contrasting of sounds brings out the different types of emotion in the listener and, in this case, the viewer. Therefore I felt that in this sense the compilation of sound and images worked well. It is not a ‘pretty’ project or one that is easy or nice to look at or listen to, however ultimately, I find that that is what I had wanted to capture all along. The disturbed mind frame of the viewer while listening and watching is what I had initially set out to achieve and upon reflection it appears I had stayed quite one track minded throughout this entire project.
I had recorded some small sounds of the clattering of objects and the shattering of glass for a few week however when I tried to add them in, the sounds were all cancelled out and that whole train of thought became depressingly useless. Therefore perhaps as a criticism I would have liked to have made my own sound had I left myself more time or possibly added the sound of the object subtly behind the screeching or the other notes. I found that another regret was that my photographs had remained stationary throughout, with the studio being my one and only setting for the images. This, in one way, is what I wanted to achieve as it adds to the theme and motif of the piece and the fact that I wanted the object to be the center of attention for the viewer, however, a wider range of objects in other locations may have added something which could have been equally if not more effective. And yet, overall, I still feel happy with my project despite of its faults.