The video piece I've been working on is directly related to the work I did in highschool called Lines. It had a big long story behind it about how this person had lost their partner to an overdose. It was about their inner turmoil over the death and how they were living. the individual images for it are below.

The song that this whole piece was inspired from is called Lines. A link to listen to it is here http://tommilsom.bandcamp.com/track/lines

I had always wanted to adapt it somehow into film instead of just still image. And I played around with the idea of it being more like a montage of slow moving shots, that are very static but still show small amounts of life. A big inspiration was the opening scene from Melancholia, directed by Lars Von Trier.

While I didn't end up using the idea of a montage, my use of green/cold lighting was definitely from this. I decided that I wanted this video work to be a new stage of this persons life. I originally wanted her to be painting black lines straight onto a wall with increasing frustration, to then collapse in defeat. It was meant to represent a stage of mourning and depict a coping mechanism she was using. I'm not sure if the emotion comes off so well, my friend (while a very good sport for letting me film and take photo's of her) isn't an actor. Of course finding a wall to destroy was also going to be challenging and instead I settled on sticking up paper, which ended up being incorporated into the video. I filmed in 640x480 even though I have a camera with much higher capability because of the vertical nature of what I'm filming. It seemed strange to have so much space either side of the figure and the top and bottom cut off. 

The link is below to Lines. If you have any comments of suggestions they'd be greatly helpful as I do want to work on it more before it is finalised.