My friend Ed and I (EDIT: it seems we have a few people interested in taking part as well) have decided to undertake a new project to push ourselves outside of our comfort zones, and to take more photographs (and video in Ed’s case). We have devised a list of 52 themes (one for each week) and it is our goal to create a piece of work each week that is either referencing this theme or related to it.
So this is week one. So far I am quite happy with my progress, having had several ideas on how to complete this weeks assignment ‘Emergency landing’.
This week idea is inspired by the 1941 film ‘Emergency landing’ which is a spy-fi film (no I had not realised that there was such a thing as spy-fi either), where by the hero of the film has invented a device to remote control an aeroplane. As an avid lover of all things RC how could I resist using something RC. If you look closely in the background you can see the front of my RC helicopter in the window about to make an emergency landing into my living room.
This image was a combination of two images. The first a shot of your lovely author running from some ominous landing lights.
The second is a simple over head lighting of the copter for use in the background:
For those who would like to play at home these are the rules:
- One week allocated to each theme (Monday to midnight Sunday) – no jumping ahead and working on other weeks topics before the allocated times!
- Must host final photograph/video/animation in a blog space (eg tumblr, wordpress)
- Freedom to interpret the topic/theme – try and provide a brief synopsis/statement explaining the connection.
- Any size/dimension for photographs. Maximum of 3 photographs per topic.
- All photos must be accompanied by a lighting diagram or at least a description of the lighting/techniques used in the image.
- Up to 5mins duration for video/animation (no minimum).
- Must be all original work including original audio.
- Videos can exceed 5mins and have non original music if they are a music video.
- If due to exceptional circumstances a video/photo may be submitted by midnight the following day at the latest.
- Small amount of stock photos/video footage may be used if personally sourced footage is not practically feasible.
Next weeks theme is: The goblin tower.
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