Author: Eli Wesley Barker

We were told the story of Babel and asked to take inspiration from it to shape our film ideas. I chose to focus on the part of the story where the people are divided by different languages, unable to understand one another, and so they can’t complete their task. I began to realise how silly…

AUDIO Going through a number of interviews, some that were not able to be put into my project as the individuals did not want anyone to hear them, helped inform so many decisions. They were hard to hear and distressing because not only was I hearing how hard it was for them to exist in…

BACKGROUNDS My first background was made with intent and a lot of detail, inspired by a series of photographs I had taken of trees. I have always been interested in the way the branches intertwine, the layers in appearance and how much texture can be seen, even from a far away distance. From this, I…

EXPERIMENTS When completing the visualisation workshop, I made a quick video of people walking. Because I was on the third floor, the camera picked up the different levels and you would watch people walk on the ground floor, disappear and then come back into eye sight on the first floor. It interested me and I…

AUDIO Like the visuals in our project, both me and my teammate worked on different aspects of the audio. Whilst I worked on the fisherman’s audio, my teammate worked on the sound effects of the water. We hit a variety of challenges; our first one being collaborating with a music student who did not respond…

BACKGROUNDS For the backgrounds I took inspiration from my teammates previous project, using natural elements as backgrounds. So, I went on a walk and took photographs of anything that I felt fit the aesthetic of our project. As our theme was set under water, I gravitated towards lakes, ponds and shadows of water. Overlapping these…

STOP-MOTION / AFTER EFFECTS AND WORKING WITH DRAGON FRAME My teammate chose a colour that we could use as a blackout behind our models. This was particularly challenging as when my teammate made the fisherman, he included a range of different colours and tones, along with the neon pink included in the angular fish, trying…

EXPERIMENTS My first experiment came to me spontaneously, I was speaking to my teammate, when I noticed his eye resonated with the shape of a fish. I had an idea to use a printer app to scan three pictures of his eye, edit them into the background of a paper cut out fish and work…

INITIAL IDEAS The spine of my project was developed through being a young trans person in a society that seems to demonise my community. I’ve been eager to work on a project that could speak to an audience that feels isolated, whilst educating others of the reality of being trans. The project topic was elastic…

INITIAL IDEAS, SKETCHES AND PROJECT TREATMENT: Both me and my teammate had the initial idea to set the theme underwater. This idea sprouted from the client’s company name being SubTv, and our direct link to a similar word – submerged. After the workshop with Mario, we were left with a project treatment to present to…