Assignment 3 - Love Story

Boy, there are a ton of things that need to be uploaded simultaneously for this one...

First off, heres the script I have kinda worked out so far, that will act as a narrative...

I used to know a woman by the park

She'd sit there. Staring into the leaves, into space. Everyday at noon.

She would go there with her lunch box.

And everyday, she'd pull out a sandwich. Then another.

She would eat one. And leave one behind.

"Hi"

She turned slowly and smiled. A radiant smile like no other.

"I've often seen you here. Do you stay around the area?"

She gingerly nodded her head.

"May I?"

She nodded again. And I sat next to her.

There really wasn't much to say.

"Why do you leave a sandwich behind?"

"Why do you ask?"

"I don't know, just thought it a little odd..."

"Don't ask. Everything in its own time."

I nodded.

(At this point I need to think of a way to connect the story to the womans narrative, any ideas?)

"See the leaves? How slowly they fall to the ground. Its like our lives, we are born and we slowly fall too."

"Each leaf is affected by the wind, big or small. Sometimes you fall fast, sometimes you fall slow. But you still fall."

"Each leaf no matter how pretty, no matter how intricate will need to take that free fall one day."

"Each leaf will eventually hit the ground."

I nodded again.

"Its like us isn't it? We complain so much about life and what it brings. Some of us really do have a hard time. Some of us sail by. Some dance with the wind. Do we really see where its all headed?"

"The ground," I answered.

"Yes, the ground. And back into the earth, where we were conceived. Why worry about everything, we don't get to keep our possessions, we will all turn to dust one day.

"True," I said with great clarity.

She told me that nature taught her a great deal about life. And that it helped her through the hardships she faced.

That was a long time ago. I still remember.

We met often like this. Talking about life.

I began to find her a solace. She straightened my thoughts.

She once told me, that she liked the rising and setting of the sun. It reminded her that there are things that should be done in your prime, while it is bright.

Was she trying to tell me something?

I thought it was perfect. She loved to talk, and I loved to listen.

But it was also so wrong. She, like a sage and I like a fool.

She could carry the burden of the world. I could only stand by and watch.

I could never tell her.

She moved on.

To another part of town perhaps.

Hopefully far away.

The last time I saw her, she didn't say anything.

The next day, there was only a sandwich on the bench. Rotted by the sun.

Next, this is a link to the music that I intend to use...

http://homepage.mac.com/cushy1/MEDITATION/files/Meditation.mp3

Note that I have already emailed the author of this music and have his permission to use it :)

What follows next is a series of sample photographs that kind of demonstrate the colour style I want to use for the video...

I want to take a note though that these photos are not exactly as I took them I made some colour adjustments. For most of these photos I upped the brightness and compressed the levels a little, which led to an increased vibrancy. Also, the greens have been increased ABIT as well, to help achieve this overexposed/green effect that I intend to do for the other photos.

Combined with the music, I hope the piece becomes a relaxing piece, not something that grips people on the edge of their seat... or should I try something edgier?

This rose, just for your info, its fake and made of plastic. But its very red. Haha...

Macro shots of blades of grass, not as contrasting as I would like but I guess I could take more shots...

I know the sky is overexposed here, but I want that white light effect, I have shots of the same place but with blue skies though, however, the leaves in that one turned out less green.


This was actually taken on a rainy day, from the view from my house, theres a slight vingette effect because of the extremely close black bars that were out of focus, but it didnt hurt the photo so I just left it as such...

This tree, was taken from an abandoned plot of land, just playing with the focus... oh and if you notice, the intended browns for the assignment arent as vibrant as the greens.

AND OF COURSE:

a 30sec sample video...I probably would have to speed things up or simplify the narrative for the final but this was just a test run, was alot harder than I thought, and ended up messing with photoshop masks, transparency blah blah blah...(P.S. I have no idea why the mask looks weird here, it looks completely fine in youtube itself...)