Well, I finally got round to playing with it (sort of).
I thought scanning in my hands would be a good place to start. Well, one thing I have realised from all this - it's really hard to 'act' with just your hands. I found it really hard to make my hands come across as 'desperate' and scannable at the same time, and then I didn't realise that I should clean the glass after each scan - so you'll have to excuse the dirty finger marks on some of the photos... Anyway, I thought scanning in my hands would be good, because scans pick up detail really well usually, and if things are pressed against the glass they give off the impression of being trapped or stuck inside - which fits in with the plot of my film. If the main character is supposedly 'trapped' inside themselves in a way, fighting an alter ego, then hands pressed against glass would seem aprropiate, I thought. But yeah, here's some of the first scan attempts:
And here's what I managed to come up with after a fiddle with PhotoShop...
This first one is probably my least favorite. I really don't like the grey colour much, and the red implies a bit more of a 'horror' feel than a thriller. The hand still doesn't look desperate enough either, more just like it's trailing down a window... Despite that, I quite like the detail, especially on the wrist (but not the thumb *shudder*).
This one I like slightly better, but the hands still don't seem clawwy enough for me. But, this is more what I was going for with the black background, and I managed to get rid of the muggy finger marks.
So, that led me onto this one. It looks a bit pixelly now, for some reason, but meh. After looking at the Butterfly Effect screenshot, I decided to try the mirror/relfection thing, which came out...
like that. Not quite how I wanted it (it's too jagged and pointy), but I kinda like the shapes the fingers make in the middle. It looks a bit like a face. Maybe a bit of a dopey gormless face, but a face nonetheless.
Thoughts?
Possibly the finger marks make it look more desperate? It looks like there's been more movement, like scrabbling to get out. I like the red, but I think it would possibly look better in a darker red. :)
ReplyDeleteI thought the one just above and below the red one were good on their own. Maybe The red is a little bright.
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