This is my own photograph taken in my garden with elements removed to accommodate the sky effect from MotionLeap. The movement of the trees is also made in MotionLeap. No audio.

As above, this is my own photo with elements removed for compositional reasons, and effects applied via MotionLeap. No audio.

Based on a static image, again of my garden, I’ve animated it in PhotoDirector then recoloured and added the clock in PowerDirector. The audio is a short drum sequence I made in Magix Musicmaker with its speed and pitch manipulated in PowerDirector. The focal point is a particular shrub which, with its rounded appearance, made a convenient source for a wormhole.

Each of these is a minute story, an unarticulated idea to spark the imagination of the viewer. In each case, there are questions about the abnormal but not dramatically abnormal sky, the saturation of the colours which might imply old film, and the nature of the colours, particularly in the second image where the pink and orange sky eases away from normality by a noticeable margin. There is moving water on the ground of the second image but that doesn’t affect the shadow, so where is that and where is the photographer?

The third video feels slightly different in that there is direction to the movement and the colours are low saturation in a much brightened ground. There is a clock and a drumbeat.

If we saw something like this in real life, how long would it take us to recognise its abnormality? Science fiction has taught us to be afraid of change like this or in awe of it and at a guess, science would likely react similarly, but would this take seconds or minutes or hours if what we were seeing was not a sky full of interplanetary warships but a thing of beauty?

And the third story? What do viewers make of the clock, the motion, and the sounds? How do the colours feed into this and where is the greatest influence coming from?

The videos each have a title which will unavoidably bias viewers’ thinking by setting a frame of reference, and ‘wormhole’ has science/fiction connotations.

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