I filmed all three postcards at golden hour.
While I was looking for a location to film, I looked to the sky and saw this beam of light that reminded me a lot of the ‘holy light’ that shines from heaven that is depicted in many religious artworks; hence the title: “Gates to Heaven”. I think I could have framed this one better by positioning the main element more in the centre and directing the camera’s focus onto it (I was using manual focus, perhaps if I used auto focus it would have worked better).
Postcard 2: Walking Storybooks
Our personalities are formed through stories: memories, experiences, emotions, so I don’t believe it to be wrong to think of individuals as walking storybooks; we are all intertwining stories, meeting, passing one another. I was going for a miniature effect (think of a zoomed out shot of the Sims or maybe a shot of someone spying from a window) by using the frame-in-frame technique (using the metal bars of my kitchen window to frame the scene).
Postcard 3: Ripples of Elegance
As I looked down to the river, I saw a swan floating and grooming itself. The ripples alongside the reflections in the water gave a nice texture that I wanted to capture; they were almost hallucinating. The ‘elegance’ in the title refers to the swan causing the ripples, as these animals are often described as such. I used the windowsill as a foreground element to give more depth to the scene and occupy the empty space, however, the swan unfortunately drifted behind it, and stayed hidden for the rest of the shot.
BACAH 2024/25, Week 2