Media Production (Future Memories): Future Memories and the Art of Photography

In exploring subject of memories I had thought of an idea of re-living, altering memories within a photo album. The idea was inspired by The Butterfly Effect (2004) a favourite of mine. This aspect of the film is about memories, when reading hand written journals this causes you to travel back in time, allowing past memories to be altered which results in altercations in the future ones. I felt this linked within future memories well. I had chosen to use an old photo album which is a prized possession of mine, something which represents my childhood and countless memories I would go back in time to experience again and again.

These are a selection of images I have chosen which have been captured using a low shutter speed with an F stop also low enabling the lens to absorb as much natural light as possible. I had set up the shoot in a space with a window behind reflecting the just right amount of light. I chosen to capture the images in black and white as a-pose to colour, reason being is this would create a sense of an old, vintage appearance within images. I wanted to ensure I captured the pages flickering by in a blurred motion as if the images are intertwining within each other as this created the effect of travelling, re-experiencing those moments. I have my hands appearing in a few of the images which created the portrayal of myself looking through the photo album, these varied in which a few images look as though the camera lens is positioned as my eyes. I photographed the images from a constant position in which I only moved the photo album around, this gave that consistency in the images that I wanted.

Below are stills from The Butterfly Effect of scenes when the main character is reading over the memories in his journal, causing a shaken and blurred motion of the words as he is about to travel into the past to re-live the memory.