And we are back with our Photo-Quest – the Awakening!
Recently slowed down because of the winter weather outside but in full speed at the moment and taking our prep work to another level.
When working on a new concept, especially at the early stage I always look for something what will drive my idea, something that will provide ‘the Grip’, or what I call The Anchor Point.
It is not necessarily the most important part of the story, but it is a prominent enough element of the puzzle to give you a reference to work around it!
In some cases it might be your model, sometimes it is the location, but this time it is a prop – a part of our future set…
But let’s start where we left the Quest last time.
What we have managed to collect was a pile of pallets and a trampoline. Plus I’ve thrown in a few hard boards.
I know that it is not clear for you to see where we are going with this, and it’s because you haven’t seen the storyboard yet!
We will get to that too, but you don’t want to know the ending just yet… do you?
To build something, we had to dismantle all the elements…
… and this is how we made it happen.
This is what I had in mind:
… and that is what we came up with:
Obviously the pod is not finished yet. We will add more detail, but what we got is our ‘Anchor Point’!
Now when we have our central object – we know what size / kind of the space (indoor location) we need to find / prepare for the shoot.
From proportions and those references we can easily work out rest of the elements, look for props and move to another stage!
But more about that in the near future!
Please stay tuned, there is a lot more to come!
Cheers
Jaroslav
AWAKENING – PART I – Finding Your Anchor Point
AWAKENING – PROLOGUE – Seeing beyond the obvious…
AWAKENING – THE PHOTO-QUEST with AurumLight Team
I always have in my sketchbook a minimum of three complete storyboards to choose from for my personal work or to show to a potential clients.
This time I decided that we once again will try to take things to another level and instead on just working on location within the location potential – we are going to build the whole set!
The theme is a Sci-Fi and it is going to be my tribute to all those creative individuals like Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron, Jodorowsky & Gimenes, Mamoru Oshii or Enki Bilal who were for years feeding my brain with all those amazing Sci Fi stories…
So you think… “yeah, big budget…” but my point is that the great things happen from great ideas, not necessarily from big money… and you may be surprised that “TheTrial” was made with a very small budget…
I tell you this – clients love it when you can build stuff out of literally “nothing” with almost “no budget”!
So…
In that moment when I am pressing the button and starting the creative process I see things differently and looking beyond the obvious… like in Wachowskis Brothers – Matrix…
And believe it or not – today we will start our Sci-Fi concept with a bunch of pallets and a garden trampoline that someone threw away and I found on my way home…
For most people they are rubbish for me it will become a main part of the whole photo-jigsaw! And I hope you will see that soon too ;-]
Please stay Tuned – More to come NEXT WEEK!
And feel free to hit us in the comment section to let us know WHAT YOU can actually see in the above photographs…
Remember > Free your mind… and the rest will follow !
Matrix: Seeing beyond the obvious…
Cheers
Jaroslav
www.AurumLight.com
Hi there,
I would like to thank everyone for such the great feedback on “TheTrial” concept shoot!
I wanted to let you know that if you think that we need some time to recover… I am more than happy to disappoint you Guys!
We are gearing up for my new SCI-FI concept - AWAKENING - and this time we have something Special for You!
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We would like to take you on a Photographic QUEST and give you a sneak preview from start to finish!
You will have a chance to jump on board and be a part of making one of our biggest shoot to-date happen.
You will not only follow the whole process, but you are more than welcome to give us instant feedback and have an influence on the final effect!
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Cheers
Jaroslav
