Narrowing down ideas.

So I was very keen on the idea of making a 'Pulp Fiction in 10 seconds' video, but this doesn't seem very realistically possible. I could definately come up with a way to distill some lines, etc of the film down to 10 seconds, but I don't think I'd be able to execute the idea very well due to lack of costumes, sets, actors, etc.

My attention now turns to something more simple that I can create in an attractive way, I'm thinking maybe going with the 'Starting up a bike' idea or the 'Plugging in a guitar and playing' idea because these two things are very accessable for me.

Thinking about 10 Second Project

Okay, so we have to create a 10 second film for our next project, the idea is based on the 10 Second Film Festival (CLICKY)

So I've been throwing some ideas around and made a list of some:

• Pulp Fiction in 10 seconds (Or another film?
• Someone calling someone and then there be no answer.
• Starting up a car/bike.
• Plugging in a Hi-Fi.
• Plugging in a guitar then playing it.
• A drawing in 10 seconds.
• Drawing something then speed up to 10 seconds.
• Some form of stop-motion animation.
• Travelling from one place to another.
• A night out in 10 seconds (someone getting drunk, etc.)
• Getting ready to go out.
• Film a clock ticking for 10 seconds.
• An hour in 10 seconds.
• Time-lapse from a certain place.

Approval

Submitted my image, now I'm just waiting for approval of it here:

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/3923234

Final image for BigStockPhoto submission.

This is my final image.

I picked .png as it's file type as I think this will not lose on quality and keep a small degree of file size.

Progress on final

This is the progress my final image took. (1) I changed the level of colour to something more suitable and more appealing, mainly just adding in some red and yellow to the scene, to take out the over powering blue. (2) I played around with the brightness and contrast until I could find something that stood out to me as being brighter, but not too bright. Not adding too much contrast helped this problem. (3) Finally I added a second layer onto the other with the same image, placed a layer mask onto the top one and took away the parts I wanted to be clear. A guassian filter was added onto this layer to add a sense of depth of field (DoF).

Decided photo

I decided to go with this photograph that I took in London, because I have the idea of zooming in and using it as if it was a background shot for a website of some sort.

BigStockPhoto

As of reading through BigStockPhoto's guidelines for images, I'm led to believe they don't accept over-editted images, like my previous attempts, so I plan on just taking an image and playing with the levels, etc. See what it turns out like.

Taking photos in London

Here are some photos I took for the project when I was down in London, some obviously need editting because of the colour and contrast issues, but I will resolve this when it comes to post-production.