digital studio

I've started to think about how I will edit my short horror concerning the sound element, here I explore the idea of a voice over. As the distortion of the image takes place I begin to voice my inner thinking, evaluating what I think of my face and just what floods to my mind in general although it is apparent the image is not my face. It would be interesting to get his opinion of his features that is not what concerns me at this moment, I'm more interested in what tone I would like to put across when voicing over. I've gone for a very monotone almost sarcastic push as it meets the criteria of making the imagery humours whilst talking about negatively about myself and my uncertain thoughts; that I can't quite agree with what I think. playing on this idea that disturbing and uncomfortable things that are created by our irrational mind are challenged by the other side (rational mind set).    

screen recording

done on laptops 3D photo editing

exploring the limited resources I have available to edit my future short film. I do quite enjoy to shockingly bad tools, it adds a new layer of stupidity to our fears.

I'm still very interested in playing around with my photography through free and simple apps I can find on my phone and laptop. they seem to give off a just as bad aesthetic as 80s horror films with their CGI monsters. I always find myself floating back to creating awfully bad edits, but that's what creates the appeal- for some odd reason my peers seem to love them more than the work I spend ages on! 

Due to the UKs lockdown I'm unable to see my peers in order to create the short film I have been planning. thus why I will be sending off a few guides like this one, to help my peers create their own costume/mask/prop. the plan is to then email them a script and from there to screen record a video chat between all the characters. this will then become my  "short film".    

  Mask No.2 This character (prop) was produced using simple but time consuming method of paper mache. A very playful and messy technique usually found in a primary school art class or in my experience, making piñatas with my mother. as my base I used a balloon that when blown up was larger than my head in order for it to fit over the majority of head sizes (if there is such thing). then cam the fun part, spray painting! I went for a rather obnoxious orange as I felt it resembles something alarming you can't ignore, much like the anxiety riven voices in our poor minds.  Manchild wearing mask No.2  key aim of this photo was to prove the mask does indeed fit comfortable on a head situated on the larger side of the head size spectrum. 

one mask/prop is complete, funny story actually. at first all measurements were considered and correctly executed one might say, however on later developments this is not the case. Prop No.1 was originally held together by pins and stuffed with scrunched paper, having this in mind the eyes were cut out at a height inline with the models eyes. commencing the stitching which was performed through the technology of a sowing machine; an area I do not compose any form of skill in. I was drastically wrong in my judgments of where the stitched  line should follow and the mass of pillow filler needed for this piece. this resulted in the eyes not lining up and the upper half flopping over. after reflection it's come to mind that eyes should be cut after sowing and that gravity is a very real component one should not ignore. 

sketched draft to start with (for the masks) Adding colour and text with relevance to anxieties related to the umbrella worries of our society at this standing moment in time. poking fun at these conceptions, turning them into fictional monsters that follow you that intend to threaten and haunt you if you proceed to ignore their social and economic standers. You must NOT forget the bag for life or you shall feel their presence, pushing down on your soul and feeding the anxious devil burrowing in your brain!