The Creation

To differ away from the standard conventions of melting Ice I wanted to make it much more interesting to view. My idea is to dye the water which I'm going to freeze so that there is a wide range of colours. This is not only interesting but makes the melting process much clearer.

 I manipulated the colour using water paints. This allows the features o the water to remain the same while freezing and also give of the same properties when melting.


I placed the cubes in an Ice filled freezer and waited until they had completely solidified before I began the time lapse project.



I am really pleased with how well the shoot went. I spent around 4-5 hours taking an image every minute or so to capture all the movement and state changes while the ice melts. When taking all 184 images to create the time lapse I set up a smart working area of white background which reflects the light used and allowed all colour to be seen more appropriately. This is also why I chose to use a white place as the base so that the curve will collect the liquid as it melts and it's clearly visible against the background.

To create such a bright effect of colour I used artificial lighting, it's quite a hard light and can be seen reflecting of the tiles at the back however this also captures the glistening sections on the ice as it melts. To enhance the colour even more I also used flash. My reasoning for making the images as bright as possible is that when it comes to the editing I wouldn't be able to edit all 184 to an identical state however in completion of the video I did enhance the brightness over all very slightly once again to increase the obvious use of colours.