Editing photos can be a tricky buisness..

We swapped our un-edited footage of Transitional Spaces with a group who shot some stills.
The photographs themselves were quite good and well shot, but as a group we really struggled to apply them to Transitional spaces, and just felt that possibly they weren't relevant. The group told us that their intentions were about the first things you notice when you wake up in the morning, and the journey you take to uni. Some shots were of toes in bed, a bed sheet and breakfast cooking, others were of cigarette bins outdoors. This is where we struggled, half were of a transitional space (the outdoor cigarette bins), whilst the remaining were already at a place..
So not only did we not know how to edit stills into a video clip, we hadn't a single idea for them. I thought about it, and spent soo long looking over and over the photos and couldn't come up with any kind of idea about them.

Ideas ideas ideas
Debbie came up with the idea of quitting smoking because of all the cigarette bin photos. But when me and Liv came to edit the photos we were still really stuck. We started by editing the photos in Photoshop by liquefying them- the idea being nothing else in the world matters to the smoker other than smoking itself. When put in FinalCut Pro we came up with the idea that the bins would fade out one into the other with text on a black screen in between. The text would have a sort of NHS feel "we know how hard it can be.." with eventually the photos converging into the ones which were liquefied. It was all a bit cheesy and cliche, but the ending of the video is what took us to the final piece.

The ending is the Beginning
The idea now became to have split second shots off all the photos repeating over and over again. Through the first set of repeated shots the word 'WAKE' flashed, the second set 'EAT' flashed, the third 'EVERYTHING', and for the last set (which was considerably longer and flashed more frequent) 'CRAVING' for added impact and intensity. A soundtrack of a heartbeat from Soundtrack Pro is playing throughout. The underlying meaning was to convey the cravings of the smoker no matter what they do- wake, eat.. eventually everything until the craving takes over.

Personally i thought our piece was very good, edgy, dynamic and snappy.. although a little short (approx 20secs). If it was any longer though i think it would have been too long and the impact wouldn't have the same effect and it would have been dragged out.
The feedback we got was good too, someone commented "that's exactly how i feel" they too are trying to quit. Considering the time we were given to do it, and our initial thoughts i am extremely pleased with the final outcome.

Below are the stills and out edited piece.. Enjoy :)

(Note: adding later)