Separation - Time-lapse Changes!

Now that my shoot days are over and done with I knew I needed to start thinking into my Time-Lapse element. According to my schedule I should have already started the time-lapse but due to lots of schedule changes because of limited time and other shoots I was working on changing I never had the chance to prepare or begin these. I wanted to create two time-lapses: One of a Sunflower growing and then dying and one of a bitten apple rotting away. However after revisiting the ideas behind these and discussing them with my DOP and various crew members I realised I didn't want to have these in my piece anymore. This is because:

- Firstly with my post-production schedule now beginning and timing being very tight for me on my own edit as well as peoples I knew I was never going to have the time to time-lapse the growth of the Sunflower. Also it is the wrong time of year to grow a sunflower and many shops and florists told me this so I was very concerned about weather this would be a success anyway.

- Then I realised I could just time-lapse the death of a Sunflower instead as well as the rotting apple. This idea would be feasible for me to do but then I thought into the concept and realised that having both these objects die would be very abrupt. The whole reason of having the growth into death is because it was meant to represent a very sad part of my emotional journey at this time however just having the death of the flower suddenly takes away the meaning and stress ad just seems abrupt and simplistically sad if even. This along with the rotting apple which again seems abrupt and conceptually basic has put me off as I don't think they are adding anything to the journey anymore.

- Lastly thinking visually these time-lapses will be filmed at my own home over a period of time and I don't have many studio tools at my availibility at home. The set up will never look as nice as the infinity table shots we filmed in the shoot and so editing them in amongst them will make these time-lapses stand out too much. I was okay with them standing out when they were a bigger part of the piece but now I only want to simplified time-lapses it seems like there isn't enough of them to warrant them standing out but also I don't have the tools to make them fit in as I can't book a studio for such a large amount of time to achieve this.

Conceptually, Practically and Visually I have defiantly changed my mind about having these Time-Lapses in the piece so I am removing them and not worry about filming them. I am shortly starting my own edit so I will have a much clear idea then if this was the right decision but I feel like at the moment it is.