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Film | Screen Fighters | Actors | PerformersVigilante Sneak Peak!
Well it’s been a mad few months prepping for, shooting and editing the stills for Rob Ho‘s Vigilante stills production, but finally all 115 final stills have been edited and are now waiting to be sequenced alongside a further 240 shots taken for a timelapse for the short film.
The project follows Rob’s character, Tao Lee, and documents his internal struggle with the overwhelming guilt and blind rage he experiences when realising the truth of what he has become after the death of his 4-year old son, Archie.
The aim of the project was to shoot stills in a way that could not only stand alone as an almost comic-strip-esque story telling but also be able to be sequenced together to form a short film. I have shot the stills and hope to edit the short in such a way that it does not simply resemble a slideshow to music but actually feel in some instances like footage.
Composer, Matt Walch, is creating a score to the short and together we are hoping to create an audio-visual narrative that explores the psychological states of the characters rather than being too literal and descriptive.
The short will be a while in coming yet and I’m hoping to release everything together so you may have to sit tight for the whole shoot, however here is a sneaky peak of some of my favourite shots:
Copyright Aimee Spinks 2011
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Copyright Aimee Spinks 2011
Copyright Aimee Spinks 2011
Tags: Aimee Spinks Photography, Rob Ho, Vigilante
Aimee! You are awesome! Brilliant job!
Awesome pics mate!!
what a quality location, where was this?
What gun did you use with the Zara shoot.
I am wanting to use a gun for a project in the making, but was worried as you cant take it into public. So i have a toy blue one which ill change the colour in post.
Keep up the good work.
Love it
Lee
Thanks Lee! It is an old Jeweller’s building in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham called Standard Works and let by Nattrass Giles.
It spans across 4 floors with a walk in safe in the basement the size of my office! It’s got such an unusual layout that there’s loads of features and corners to shoot in and is by far the best location I’ve ever shot in in terms of what we could do with it. The only downside is that with no power, it was very cold and as soon as the sun went down we were working solely by torch and candle light which got very creepy – especially down in the basement when we could here people sneaking about upstairs!
For Zara’s shoot I used an air rifle I borrowed from a rifle shop in Blackpool. The guns used in this shoot were the model/client’s own which is a decommissioned pistol and then one I borrowed from a guy I work with which was a metal BB gun.
If you can use a real looking gun it will always look better and save you lots of time in post, but yes, be careful you don’t get spotted with it out in public!
Aimee — these photos are fantastic.
Rob described the place to me before I had seen the photos, and…WOW!
I love your use of chiarascuro and the other day, Rob and I were talking and he said that you intended to echo the sentiment of “sometimes you need to go into the darkness to come into the light.” So provocative.
Amazing work.
xx
Thank you Laurie – I’m glad you like the lighting! Yes the location is AMAZING though incredibly creepy when it gets dark!
Can’t wait until the whole project is finished and I can release everything!
xx