JOSEPH JAMES ALLEN
6 Earth to earth
4D
I wondered what it would be like to combine slow motion recordings of some leaves burning and the sound of the catastrophic Australian wildfires that were occurring at the time. I was interested in editing the video in sync to the audio so the soundtrack would give a heightened sense of peril. I used Photoshop to apply sharpness, colour grading, blurring, dodging and burning to focus attention to specific parts of the image.
ELIZABETH ROSE ALSTER
7 The Internet’s Proposal
4D
Due to the saturated documentation of death in the news this year, I began to consider how we are unable to allow past versions of ourselves, now digitally archived on social media, to organically ‘die’. This then led me to consider how the concept of death might have to now be explained to children much earlier than usual due to the current situation. I wanted to explain it in a gentle way.