Day One: Our first day of our fashion constructed image task was based upon building the set. We began by my self and Dana spray painting the typoling flooring and getting the trees up. The group and I also made our frame from the 2x1 wood I got form wicks which held the trees upright a. To keep the trees firm we used green and silver garden wire.
What we did:
-set up the wood.
-Put flats up,
-made grid to hold the trees
-Placed typoling flooring down.
Problems:
> When building our grid I brought the wrong type of wood, so my self and Laura had to take the wood back and rebuy wood that was thin enough thickness wise, which unfortunately added more to the budget and time.
>Due to heath and safety problems, we found it difficult to reach the top of the trees, so we had to deal with the small step ladders which proved difficult sometimes.
>We also found it difficult to hold the trees down at the root. To begin with we held them up with sandbags, and as we positioned the trees in the right places we then secured them with garden wire. We then realised soil might be easier to hold the trees in the correct position and would also fit in well with our forest set, so the next morning I drove down to B&Q and brought some soil and started to build banks around the base of the tree taking away the sandbags.
The image above shows the group and i starting our set build of placing the trees. As you can see, we have positioned the light in the centre of the set, to create a halo effect referencing back to Alexander McQueen fashion 2012. Where i am standing is where our model would be positioned. The light is positioned on a steel pole above the set, and held by two stands that can easily be wound up and down. This lighting experiment enabled us to see where to put the trees to create a sense of entrapment.
Adjusting the lighting!
A test experiment based upon our lighting choice.We have started to place in the stumps , to create a sense of wood area and the flooring has been sprayed to the colour brown, to create a sence of woodland environment .
Day two was about lighting and the positioning of props.
Here you can see Robyn and Dana adding branches and trees, to make our set look dense and to create that atmasphere of entrapment. Unfortuantly, we ran out of wire so we had to use silver coated wire instead, which meant when editing our image we would have to cut out this feature.
Day Two
What we did:
Today was based around cutting excess branches, which proved to be difficalt with the health and safety regulations. We also filled up our scene with logs and branches to portray depth. And also placed black foam boards to hide the flats.
Problems
> Ran out of soil, so had to go and buy another bag, which in the end didnt need, so time was wasted on travelling backward and forward to destinations.
Shows the flats covered by black foam boards.
The image below shows the effect of the foam boards. The set became more black. We also added a trunk to the side of the set, which catches the light, perfect for texture and detail.
We aslo began to add lights. In the image below, you can identify a flare of light appearing from the side, so we tried to highlight the definition of the trees. We also played around with the diffuser over the light, as this would get rid of this type of lighting, but nothing significant was shown so we slightly re -positioned the camera.
These photo`s show tests of useing the smoke machine. We had this idea that the use of the smoke machine would create a really atmospheric quality, but when we began to test the machine we thought the effect appeared too light and thin, so we would of had to have the machine on for a long time, which was not possible.
When testing out lighting and positioning i stood in the set, in order to see the effect of the lighting and the height of the trees. In the end, we thought we needed more lighting around the trees to produce more definition and to make them appear more defined.
These photos show us adding more light to the set to give the trees more definition at the sides and needed more at the bottom.
When observing the image below, we felt we need to highlight the trunk at the left bottom courner, but realised this was too harsh and wasn't really highlighting the trunk, which we tried to cover with hydrated moss to give a realistic feel.
We then started to use smaller more directional lighting in order to highlight the texture of the trunk. We liked this idea of creating pools of light, so we explored this technique in day three.
The before and after of the spotlight. We played around with density of the light
Day Three- Lighting(pre test)
What we did:
We laid the leaves i collected for flooring texture and made sure any tweaking had been done and no other branches needed to be added to bulk out the forest set.
Problems:
It was all about the lighting and the positioning of the lights and the effect and problems it caused with the adding and taking away of lights. In total we had 10 lights.
This shot was after we added the leaves for texture. We thought that the five bags of leaves wouldn't be enough but five was enough. Although I did have to go outside and collect some more. Adding the leaves added another problem as we had to add more lights to highlight the different textures and colours of the leaves in order to make the set look real. Unfortuantly at this time, the set looked flat due to the lighting.
Again, i stood in the set, as we could then test out positions and lighting for our shoot.
To make our set look more appealing to the eye and realistic, we added fake wild flowers at the base of the trunk and in clumps around the set. We thought it gave another dimension to the shot and made the set look more realistic. Here, you can see we are playing around with pools of light. We also tried bulking out the trees on the left with some branches we found, but they were the wrong type of leaves so looked out of place.
Jonathan just tried to move the light to create a more defined circle of light. As a result the forefront of the image is much darker, therefore there is a nicer use of shadow around the model to create a sense of entrapment.
Day Four and Five: Shoot day!
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