Thursday 9 February 2012

Final

In the end, I decided against using photography as the medium for my film. My inital attempt at this project using photography produced a work which in my opinion at least, lacked substance, and was very open to interpretation. There was no factual information and indeed no context, as a result I opted instead to produce a film.


The film follows my 'journey' through not-sleeping, through the use of video-diaries. Interspersed amongst these recordings are various other section of film detailing facts and statistics regarding sleep-deprivation.

Some stills:




Bettina von Zwehl

Von Zwehl's portraiture photography is something I have looked at as a reference and inspiration for my own work. Von Zwehl produces photographic portraits of her subjects in a variety environments under varying conditions, one of those conditions was in fact a sleep-deprived state.

From an untitled project (2000):










This is a style I would be keen to adopt in regards to my own documentary, the neutrality of the background combined with the intense detail of the subjects produce striking images that I feel would compliment the content of my project.