Aye therein lies the rub.

This image exemplifies some of the issues I am encountering. This is the side abutment of a bridge under a motorway. The embankment rises above, its construction throws up these odd spaces which are not useful but a necessary byproduct. They've been fenced off to stop access to the carraigeway above. The space is undecided and an ideal example for me to create some response in minature.
The trouble is the approach. The construct presents various challenges to simulate; vegetation, the fence, though these can be overcome.It remains a matter of how to see it. As a forensic teutonic excercise? A neo gothic Lynchian idyll with low lighting,mist and limited artificial illumination? Or what? what is the English suburban slightly menacing approach and how does it translate in to producing an image which has an aesthetic which is appealing.
All my art school training wants to make it something luverly.

CRUDE

I've been trying to video a model I've made for sometime now. I find video difficult to comprehend in a practical sense. I've tried filming this imagined interior, but each time the quality is poor in places and distracting. I wonder if its the low light levels and the need for maximum depth of field that defy the video camera. The one I'm using isn't best suited for what i want it to perform.
I really want to use a digital SLR with a video facility, but in the meantime until I can afford it, I've tried some very crude stop frame with a digital SLR. I quite like the jerkiness of it and with some fiddling with filters it could be quite interesting.