Another digipak idea

It recently occurred to me to go back to the start of my light trails idea used in my video for my digipak, when I did some work into how it can be photographed. I never mentioned this in the first ideas post, and a lot of research could easily be done into the project, with a higher element of convergence between the media promoting the single if I chose to use this effect.

The light trails effect is mainly restricted to photography, although the effect is being used noteably more frequently in film over the past few months, as in this recent advert.

In photography, the effect is normally used when photographing traffic, mainly due to how easy this is to do, and the interesting trails they can create, as seen below.

The effect is often recreated using photo manipulation software such as Photoshop, and there are thousands of examples of the effect being used in advertising, where the effect is still very fashionable.

A good example of an artist who often uses this them is Chuck Anderson, whos site can be viewed from here. He makes bold use of light on dark, using the light trails to add a dynamic, exciting tone to his work. Here are some examples of his more relevant works for my purposes.

I find this work particularly relevant due to the feeling of movement and power his works radiate. Replacing the snowboarding or BMXing images with those of parkour would still make the images as effective as they are now, and so I see no reason why I could not use this effect with my work.

I spent 5 minutes in Photoshop creating a rough to see how the effect could look. This is a very bare, simple example, but I think that the idea fits very well. However, I would like the image to look less dynamic, and more flowing, giving the image a more sober feel to better suit the music.

I combined the light trails with smoke, influenced by previous research, which I feel does work, and in this case is not used very effectively.