Silent City

Silent City

1. Framing

   • Car Windows
   • Puddles
   • Use shallow DOF to focus inside the framed area
   • Look out of windows in tall buildings to get shots of the city feom a high veiwpoint

2. Leading Lines

   • Use road lines to direct the eye in a certian direction
   • Focus on the sides of concrete/urban walls
   • Find leading lines in alley ways. These lines can also include diagonal lines.
   • Find street lights that are all in a row, or, from a low veiwpoint, look up

3. Symmetry

   • Centre a road line in the middle of the image to get horizontal symmetry
   • Centre a street/traffic light in the middle of the image and have similar shaped objects on either side
   • Reflection of car in puddle or window

4. Close up Veiw Point

   • Focus on the texture of concrete and brick walls. Have foreground focused and background burry
   • Focus on the texture of loose gravel roads.
   • Close up of street light, have background blurry
   • Focus on discarded rubbish on the footpaths and roads

5. How these conventions set the feeling of silence and islolation

   • Close up veiw point
     • Close ups can set the feeling of silence as one part of the image is focused and the rest is blurry, which gives a calming atmosphere.
   • Symmetry
     • Symmetry can set the feeling of isolation by making the image balanced, which gives a calm, quite atmosephere.
   • Leading Lines
     • Leading lines set the feeling of isolation by haveing the main object isolated and having the leading lines direct our eye in that same direction
   • Framing
     • Framing can set the feeling of silence as the image seems to be contained in the frame, which sets a confined, calm mood.

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