Trees Are Everywhere! (Final Silent 3)

Honestly trees are everywhere. We all know it, I'm not going to give anybody revelations with this one. It's a simple fact that anywhere you go besides the desert there's going to be trees. Even there there's cacti so to put it bluntly they're everywhere. These were all collected within a quarter mile and not even in the forest.

Big Tree Finds it's Prey (Silent Final 2)

The goal of this silent clip was to mesh two sets of footage I had into one and make it look like the larger tree was scouting the smaller ones for it's victim. The larger tree searches the smaller ones it's facing to discover one it finds suitable for it's next meal. I know it's far fetched, but imaginate with me and enjoy.

A Fall and Puzzling Rise(Final Silent 1)

I decided to play around with some of the footage from several short clips I had and made this montage dedicated to the struggles of addiction. It depicts the fall of human beings everywhere towards the awful truth that is this struggle, playing with relapse and conquering the addiction itself. Does this person make it out clean and alive? You be the judge.

Rough Cut 5 (Stills)

Rough Cut 4

Rough Cut 3

Rough Cut 2

Rough Cut 1

Image Capturing Strategy

For my image capturing strategy I chose to collect photos and videos of trees without any leaves for their natural core beauty which worked out great because of the time of year. Also I decided to take some videos as if I was dizzy and sometimes enough that it looked as though I was going to fall down. In some the strategies are combined and at times especially with the stills, I decided to incorporate a third strategy of using the lowest possible angle as well.

Drift Strategy

For this drift I decided to have the same starting point I had in drift1 but to walk starting in the opposite direction. Not only this, but I decided to use a map of my hometown of Lincolnwood, Illinois to navigate through the town of Milwaukee. This gave me and my drift the opportunity to be abstract and find randomness in Milwaukee through location and images captured, as I reflected on where I'd be back home.