Sunday, 2 October 2011

Final series

This photo is the establishing shot.  The full moon is associated with a scary night, establishing the concept of my series straight away: that an innocent place during the day can make you feel uneasy and unsafe when seen at night with less light.

A children's park during the day would be full of kids playing and is a completely normal, safe place.  But at night it's deserted.  An empty swing set gives off a kind of aura, like when you see a swing, swinging but no one on it.  In this shot I've introduced the hooded figure in the distance.  It represents the feeling that someone is in the distance watching/following you even when there probably isn't anyone there.

A lot of scary movies feature lakes and I think this rickety old bridge over the lake gives an abandoned and trapped feeling.  As if you're alone and the only way to go is across the bridge, but the hooded figure is on the bridge making you feel trapped.

Even though this photo is lit up by the train, you can see that the train is speeding past.  Which means in a few seconds you will be in complete darkness with this figure getting closer.  The way forward is across the bridge and you won't reach more light until you get to the other side (you can see a small street lamp in the distance).  The graffiti on the ground and the run down state of the fence make it feel like it's a place where there wouldn't be any cameras and there might be scary people.

This photo is getting even darker and shows the person looking into a completely dark tunnel.  The only thing lit up is the graffiti which like the previous photo gives you that uneasy feeling.  The hooded figure is getting even closer to the camera as if the longer you're out at night the closer you feel like you're being followed.

This house during the day looks like a completely innocent everyday house.  But with the street lamp casting the shadow of a creepy looking tree across the house, it gives you that haunted house feeling.  There is also no lights on in any of the windows, giving the impression that it is abandoned.  In this final photo I wanted the hooded figure to be facing the camera to represent that dread you feel of someone confronting you at night.

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