Can you make an abstract idea into a story? This was something posed to my production class this past week in an effort to understand the process of visualizing/externalizing concepts. As filmmakers, we often take the smallest of ideas and turn them into visual stories. I partnered up with one of my classmates to shoot 3 photos that were supposed to convey an abstract emotion in a sequence. Check the photos and see if you can guess what we were going for.
The last picture probably gave it away. Can you guess the emotion?
Our Emotion: Hunger
Though I don’t necessarily think hunger is an emotion, this was a fun activity to do. After we presented this to the class, we got both some positive feedback and constructive criticism. Everyone really liked the shot composition of the first frame and the depth of field in the last one. They mentioned that the second frame might have made more sense if you could have seen the cookies that I was fighting Elsie for which might have given off a better sense of just how hungry I was. As someone who comes from a writing background, it’s good to get this kind of critique on the visuals so I can become better at make the words come off the page into films.