Alternatives

After looking at the last video I did where I wanted to express the emotion through colours, I then decided to make an opposite just so I could see the contrast between the two videos. I wanted to see what emotions could be expressed through the change in colours within a single video. I wanted to experiment with the reason why people perceive things different when they have been altered differently. This allows me to understand what colours mean to people and when used together can create a whole different emotion. 


Archery 4 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Emotions Through Colours

This is very slight changes from the original video. What I've done is brighten everything up making the colours more intense and saturated. I thought that by showing emotion this time I would try to brighten everything up, I felt that this reflects the intensity when shooting at a competition. I've also overlaid a solid colour which I feel makes the entire video slightly better. It was a bright yellow/orange colour which I feel really adds to the whole emotion sense to the video.



Archery 3 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Archery And Emotions

I used the same footage but decided to make it darker in colour. I felt that by doing this it helped show a different emotion through it. If you watch the footage hard enough you see the archers getting frustrated with themselves then just getting on with the next arrow. I wanted to create a video that represents that again through the use of colours. I feel that this particular video looks better than the previous one, this is because I feel it expresses the emotion through the use of colour better. 


Archery 2 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Colour On Video

Another way to showing emotion is through the use of a moving image. I wanted to capture the intensity of what its like to shoot at a competition, so after getting the permission of the archers I filmed them while shooting so that I could grasp the sense of emotions people go through. Between each shot you see the archer express their distress with an arrow that has gone wrong, or if they know their technique is not quite on spot. I wanted to emphasis this further through the use of colours and relate that back to the emotions they go through. 

I decided to keep the colours fairly soft because it connects well with the concentration you have within a competition. 


Archery from Merry Eady on Vimeo.