Plans baffled again

As seems to be a running theme with this project I hit more problems while trying to do my scrap yard shoot at the weekend, the first being weather (could it have rained any harder?!) and the second being the one day it wasn't raining was the day they weren't open! Argh!

So for now, the scrap yard idea is on hold and I'm turning my attention to video as I haven't experimented in that yet. I was trying to think of the type of thing I'd like to do, based on the photos I've taken so far. One of my ideas is to merge the photographs I've taken thus far into a video, based around some kind of narrative that would probably begin with some of the in-car shots, then the petrol stations and finally the scrap yard and ruined car images.

However, while I'd like to make that video, right now as I've already shot those images, I'd like to do something a little different. So as I was already looking at the themes of identity, how people treat cars and how people almost personalise them, treat them as people or as something more than just a means of transport, I'd like to do a video perhaps about that.

My initial idea is to photograph car make and name badges that you find on the back of the car. The idea came to me over the weekend, but when I came across photographs by Jesse Chehak, this helped inspire me and cement it.

The following photos below are all from Chehak's set entitled "Autos"


Where as Chahak's photos are meant to be fine art and to show the classic American cars, mine will be going into a video, though I would like to get the same effect where there's nothing but the badge and car in frame.

My initial ideas are to have very fast edits where the images just flash up and the colours and contrast should make for interesting cuts and somewhere during the video I want to bring in flashes of trashed and ruined cars which will mean using the ones I took at the previous scrap yard and the ones I took when I came across that wreck. I haven't thought about the sound much yet, for now I want to concentrate on getting the visuals how I'd like them.

I have already begun shooting the images, the only problem I've encountered so far is that on the modern cars (which is mostly all I have access to) you often get reflections in the paintwork but if they're just flashing up quickly, I don't think that will be a huge issue.