As
I was looking into using forests and woods with misty/ foggy weather
as a setting for some of my photographs with this project, I
recollected films, tv series and other media products that used a
similar environment and atmosphere and most had one thing in common.
That they were all part of the horror genre. This got me thinking
along those lines, and while looking on the net at stills from films
and even games, I found that these were very similar to what I am
looking for. The aesthetic that is, not the supernatural, horror scene.
Below
are a couple of images from the Sleepy Hollow set. The images
demonstrate the misty wood atmosphere I'm looking for, and so have
given me a new direction to take my research for this project.
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As
I wanted landscapes with eye catching features and was already
looking at horror film sets, this lead to further ideas for my
project.
Originally
I was looking for something surreal to put in the images, but while
looking at the Sleepy Hollow set it got me thinking of a a horror
game called Slender. A game set in a wood in the middle of the night,
similar in some respects to the misty scenes as night will mask the
background just like the fog, I felt this could be quite inspiring
for my project as It gives another method to create the atmosphere
I'm looking for, one perhaps more achievable and in some cases can be
more relatable.
The
images below are by unknown photographers also inspired by Slender.
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As
you can see in the two images above, they look like ordinary images
of a wood. But looking closely you can see that is not quite the
case. This is similar to what I want to create, an ordinary landscape
at first glance, but at closer inspection, there is something else
going on. Here the something else going on is the character from
Slender lurking in the woods, this is similar to what I want to make
but maybe not quite so dark and sinister as to be defined as horror, my ideas are somewhat less supernatural.
This next image below are more items related to the game mentioned above. They are notes scatted around the in game level that the player finds. Adding to the ideas above I could place items or notes in the image that give a story to the photograph, giving the sense of mystery. Making it appear like everything is not as it seems.
Following
on from the horror theme, I found this link with one of the images I
used above. It shows how adding some text, a narrative to the image
can make it that much more effective. Just a thought for my project
if the images don't quite tell the story I'm looking for or don't
have the desired effect.
The text along with the image can really set the atmosphere and can aid with the narrative making the image stronger .
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