Photo Stills - Direction

Last week we were set an exercise to create a piece of work that portrayed the passing of time using only still images. The created work needed to include 3 audio soundtracks of which one had to be an original recorded by the creator. In todays seminar we watched the finished videos. I made notes about the pieces with regard to how they were paced, their composition and my first impressions. The first video shown was 'Sickened Garden' which was filmed in black and white. The compression made it difficult to see what was happening in the sequence but i think it involved the garden being cleaned!
The theme of passing time was done well in the videos, a few people used shots of a clock or watch to show the time passing. Also fast paced editing was used to show lots of pictures and give the illusion of more time passing. The original audio track that had to be created was achieved mostly by making sound effects for doors opening or alarm clocks for example. I used a voice over for my orinal audio and it doubled as an effective way to show passing time.