Waves from Jason Durham on Vimeo.

I saw this video and thought I could do something similar as i find waves relaxing and calming. However I don't like the fact that there is music on, I would keep the sound of the waves.

If I did my own version of the video this is the location I would use.

FMP

Flowering 2009 HD (touched by strangers) from GOmotion on Vimeo.

I want to also explore the idea of using flowers for my FMP and I found this video that i found really interesting to watch but also slightly wierd at the same time.
One thing I don't like about this video is that It's too long. I would have made it shorter, maybe so it lasts roughly one minute.

Flower Arrangement from Jason Durham on Vimeo.

This video is a perfect example of how to use colour.  I found it when I was researching flowers which is another theme I'd possibly like to use. The software he used to create this video was final cut pro and adobe after effects.

FMP

Whenever I go to an art gallery the thing that draws me in most is colours, especially in paintings from the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. One painting in particular is Millais Mariana based on the Shakespeare play Measure for measure and the character Mariana in the moated grange.

What I like about this painting in terms of colour is that they are bright, bold and beautiful and that makes me whant to look at it for ages.

"Millais uses bright, contrasting colors to individuate themes and objects in the painting. Mariana, radiant in blue, contrasts the complementary orange of the stool on which she sat. Similarly, the greenish tone of the natural outdoors repels its complementary reddish tint of the interior of the room. Mariana's needlepoint that sits on the table before her appears in red, contrasting the green of the leaf right next to it. With these subtle gimmicks of color, Millais delineates the various themes of his painting: outside versus inside, and rest versus toil."

So for my FMP I want to do some thing colourful and bright that will make the viewer just stop and stare.

hope, fear, desire

 Hope was easy to think of. I decided to do flowers because they are pure and give you a sense of hope.
I looked at two different photographers who use flowers, the first was Cecil Beaton and the seccond Imogen Cunningham. I then went out and took some test shots of flowers at the national botanic garden of wales.

hope, fear, desire

 Fear was another thing that was quite hard to do, my original idea was based around war and the fear it creates for people. Later I decided to change it into fear of religion. This still links into the theme of war as most wars are started by religious arguments.
Doing religion for fear shows how easy it is to turn something into a negative emotion or opinion.

hope, fear, desire

All these pictures represent what i think of as desire, mainly material desire. I originally struggled with the initial idea of what to do for desire but it all came good in the end. I started looking at pictures in fashion magazines of jewellery photographs as advertising to see how the images make you desire the product.

Assessment

I have just had an assessment with my tutors. We were looking at my project for Hope, fear and desire. For said project I decided to do photography ( post pictures later)  as this WAS relevant to the university course i wanted to go on.  I feel that so far things are going smoothly however if I want that coveted Distiction  I best get my act together.