Birds and Windmills

Ah, my final piece.. After realizing how many themes, and how much all of them clashed.. and after meeting with Sean for my critique, I needed to focus on a story, ONE story. He brought up a good contrast, about birds and windmills. This is a very controversial topic. An aspect concerning the two, is that the birds, during migrating seasons, run into the windmills because of the strong wind gusts.. This was a perfect issue to work off of. The story line I created was to start with the route I took to get to the windmills, which was obviously by car, then showcasing the sign on the road that indicates not to get close to the wind turbine. Then, with my clips, and stills.. i switched off from birds to windmills. I tried to make it so that for every flight the bird would take, the clip would change into the windmills.. Also, in the beginning and end, i show the same two clips, to start the birds journey, and end it.. but both in different speeds.

Rough Sketch

In this piece, I incorporated panning, and zooming, along with some transitions. Rather than my silent post, where I mostly included color, I tried to keep this one in the browns and blues. I also added clips of birds to associate with the larger aerial clips of the windmills. In regards to the sound, I tried to make it so the media that didn't include the birds was louder and more cluttered than the media that included the birds.

Silent Rough Cut Sketch

My initial approach to drift 2, was to go by color.. I wanted to slowly transition the colors, so they would blend. I wanted to take photos of more abstract criteria, yet include the bigger picture: windmills. Before going on my walk, I already knew I wanted to capture the windmills in Fond Du Lac/Dodge County. After going through this piece, i realized that my transitions didn't flow as much.. and there wasn't much of a story. Still, I liked the images I was able to capture.