Chapter 5: Web of Life
Chapter 5 : Interconnection: Environmental Ethos, Web of Life (Ecological Interconnectedness)
Expanding scope into ecological interconnectedness, wolves embedded in ecosystem
Sequences tie wolves to the wider ecosystem: gulls feeding on salmon scraps, forests nourished by marine cycles, wolves moving seamlessly through intertidal zones.
Subtle reminders of environmental vulnerability — washed-up debris, logging scars — juxtaposed with resilient life.
Expansive, relational, wolves within wider ecosystem
Effect: Contextualizes — wolves belong, but their existence is fragile within the larger ecological and human framework.
Structure
Mood: Environmental, interconnected, reverent
Content: Wolves within ecosystems: scavenging gulls, salmon cycles, forest-floor renewal. Juxtapositions with subtle human presence (logging scars, debris) balanced by resilience of life.
Purpose: Reinforce ecological interdependence and the environmental ethos at the heart of the project. Expand story beyond wolves, situating them in a larger ecological and environmental web.
Visual Pacing:
Start ecological: wolves integrated with gulls, salmon, forest.
Shift to contrast: hints of human presence (debris, scars) juxtaposed with wild resilience.
End balance: wolves moving seamlessly through environment, integrated with ecosystem.
Rhythm: interconnected flow, weaving scenes like threads in a web.
Approach: Expansive, ecological. Wolves as part of the greater system, not apart from it.
10–12x Wolves + other species (gulls, ravens, salmon, seals in distance).
8–10x Subtle traces of cycles (track filled with tidewater, fish head, fallen feather).
8–10x Human presence (logging scar, fishing net, distant boat).
10–12x Resilient moments (wolves moving confidently through storm, resting at peace, pack in balance with land)
Image Breakdown — 44 Images
Wide (12) — wolves with gulls, salmon, eagles; interconnectedness.
Medium (16) — resourcefulness: scavenging, tidal flats, hunting traces.
Detail (10) — wolf track filled with tidewater, kelp, raven feather.
Emotional (6) — wolf pausing in balance with surroundings.
Shot List — 44 Images
5.1 Wide — L - gulls circling salmon run.
5.2 Wide — WP - wolves foraging with gulls overhead.
5.3 Wide — W - wolf at river mouth with salmon jumping.
5.4 Wide — WP - eagles perched while wolves scavenge.
5.5 Wide — WP - wolves in tidal estuary alongside herons.
5.6 Wide — L - ravens on carcass near wolves.
5.7 Wide — W - wolf crossing kelp beds with seals nearby.
5.8 Wide — W - wolves on sandbar surrounded by life.
5.9 Wide — L - interconnected web of beach, gulls, driftwood.
5.10 Wide — W - wolf at forest edge, deer tracks ahead.
Wolves with gulls at shoreline.
Salmon running upriver.
Eagle perched above wolf path.
Wolves moving with fog rolling across tidal flat.
Forest edge teeming with mushrooms.
Wolves at river crossing with spawning salmon.
Kelp forest washed ashore, wolves nearby.
Otter trail intersecting wolf tracks.
Distant wolf near bear on riverbank.
Wolves on rocky beach with seals offshore.
Wolf walking through meadow of wildflowers.
g5.11 Medium — W - wolf sniffing gull feather.
5.12 Medium — W - wolf watching salmon in shallow creek.
5.13 Medium — W - wolf crossing driftwood piles.
5.14 Medium — W - wolf pausing at eagle overhead.
5.15 Medium — W - wolf pulling kelp for play.
5.16 Medium — W - wolf marking trail in forest.
5.17 Medium — W - wolf carrying fish through tall grass.
5.18 Medium — W - wolf lying near carcass as raven waits.
5.19 Medium — W - wolf chasing shorebirds.
5.20 Medium — W - wolves at creek in salmon season.
5.21 Medium — W - wolf sniffing old logging scar.
5.22 Medium — W - wolf examining washed-up rope.
5.23 Medium — W - wolf moving through cut stump grove.
5.24 Medium — W - wolf standing atop drift log with scarred marks.
5.25 Medium — W - wolf howling in forest hollow.
5.26 Medium — WP - wolves traveling with pups through marsh.
5.27 Medium — W - wolf drinking tidewater with reflection.
5.28 Medium — WP - pack moving together across sandbar.
5.29 Medium — W - wolf carrying branch as tool.
5.30 Medium — W - wolf watching raven flock rise.
Wolf interacting with raven.
Wolves circling eagle remains.
Wolf drinking beside salmon run.
Wolf sniffing kelp pile.
Wolf in dense alder grove.
Wolves threading trail used by deer.
Wolf eating salmon while gull waits.
Wolf standing over tide pool reflection.
Wolf tracking scent through moss.
Wolves foraging in intertidal zone.
Wolf watching bear at distance.
Wolves weaving through driftwood maze.
Wolf framed by human-scarred logging stump.
Wolf walking past discarded rope.
Wolves moving past eagle feather on ground.
5.31 Detail — WU - wolf track filled with tidewater.
5.32 Detail — L - gull feather caught in pawprint.
5.33 Detail — W - fish remains at wolf’s feet.
5.34 Detail — L - kelp strands wrapped on drift log.
5.35 Detail — L - eagle feather near carcass.
5.36 Detail — L - rope fray against log.
5.37 Detail — L - sand dollar broken in track.
5.38 Detail — L - old cut stump with moss reclaiming.
5.39 Detail — W - pup paw pressed next to adult.
5.40 Detail — WU - ripple over pawprint with tide.
Wolf track filling with tidewater.
Broken mussel shell with wolf fur near.
Raven feather beside pawprint.
Seaweed clinging to wolf paw.
Close of salmon eye, wolf hair caught.
Wolf scat with salmon bones.
Kelp strand twisted with wolf fur.
Footprint of boot overlaid with wolf track.
Moss spore release disturbed by paw.
Wolf track + gull track intersecting.
Driftwood scarred by axe near wolf hair.
5.41 Emotional — W - wolf pausing in still estuary.
5.42 Emotional — W - wolf and raven in silent standoff.
5.43 Emotional — W - wolf carrying fish to pups, generosity.
5.44 Emotional — WP - wolves moving confidently, strength in unity.
Wolf howling with raven circling.
Pup playing with gull feather.
Wolf pausing to watch eagle.
Wolves resting together, gulls nearby.
Wolf cautiously investigating human trace.
Wolves threading through rain, quiet persistence.
