Progress: Project Four

For project four, I received the words "Wet" and "Dry" and am required to represent them in whatever sense I want to capture them. At first I had a hard time deciding what direction I wanted to take this and then I came up with my concept.

I want to take more of an abstract approach to the words that I was assigned by using them in the following thesaurus definitions:

"Wet" meaning: saturated, water, clamminess, irrigate
"Dry" meaning: dehydrated, depleted, dusty, desolate

By using the thesaurus definitions I can manipulate the images to have a similar but masked definition versus than the literal meaning we usually get when we think wet and dry. I am going to use still images combined together in an animatic to show subtle changes in an environment and to reinforce each word appropriately.

The first series of photographs that I have shot for this are in regards to the word "Dry". I picked a desolate place that was abandoned and suited the warm color palette suggesting that it was a dry, depleted area and set up for my shots. Within the shots, I moved around objects that I thought would add to the representation of the desolate scene such as the rusted door moving, or dried leaves passing in and out of the frame.

Here is a short animated gif of 35 photos shot to start this animatic.



Here are some other images that were also shot that will eventually be in the animatic too.



Your thoughts are appreciated!