Ok, so the reason why i've suddenly started to blog is cos of my course at uni (Photography&video for those who didn't know). They wanted us to start blogging as a sorta 'online sketchbook' so that our ideas/thought processes on our work are more gradual over the year, rather than all being a load of crap printed from the internet a month before deadline..
..Which is what im actually excited about. I am one of these guilty people who pile a load of crap into a book at the last min and always always regret it "Why didn't i start it earlier?!" "Why is there 3 days till the deadline and ive done F all?!" "Why did i watch so much Friends?!"
Yes, shit of me i know.
But now hopefully all that is about to change as this new way, 'online sketchbook', is keeping up with the time, and now ive no excuse for going on me laptop and not doing any work hoooray! For now.
Transitional Spaces Vid.work
Ok, so now down to the nitty gritty.
So today Liv, Jo and I got a vid.camera out to do our work for the un-assessed 'Transitional spaces' video work. At first didnt have the foggiest of 'Transitional spaces' even after reading the examples (Alone in that?) So i didnt really have an idea to be fair, but was somehow picturing the underpass near the train station. Slow pans, lotsa wide shots, it being empty, bit o' vertigo (I have a thing for vertigo at the min. Love it). But after i was late for the cancelled lecture this morning, Liv and Jo had 2 hours to discuss the work we were to film today and came up with the idea. They thought about a waiting space or area and focusing on aspects in that. ie. lotsa close-ups, clocks, ticking, empty space possibly? The general idea of what youd expect whilst waiting.
We also filmed the other non assessed vid work, the 30second film based on sound. Watched a clip from Apocalypse now (1979) to get us thinking about sound in class- woah. I actually made a few notes whilst watching as well, and was so so into the clip and was so in the moment of the film (happens rarely these days). Thank you martin sheen! And i probably have Sue to thank for this but I think that today ive really opened my eyes and ears to sound, and have really started to think out of the box. Yes finally! Just the way sounds overlap each other, what sounds mean and trigger in peoples expectations, and the way you can trick or manipulate the viewer with such simple sounds! I just felt well inspired and thought about a career in the 'sound' industry? (If such a thing exists)
Anyway back to our work! I do ramble a lot, apologies in advance. We (tried to) film my face, with my eyes closed for about 30 secs, unsucessful, im a fool, i laugh. So Liv filmed Jo with her eyes closed for approx. 30secs, and at the end her eyes opening wide.
Ok now, so the sound over these 30secs- it starts off with general pub hubbub, then parts of convo hinting character drink driving over lap this. Sounds of traffic starts to creep in over these until you hear screeching and a crash sound. And then (Liv's) car horn. Beeeep. Dont want it to sound too long, and i dont want it to end like this. Too cliche and cheesy otherwise? Thoughts please. So want to go back to general pub hubbub towards the end, maybe have the faint noise of car horn too? Maybe even throughout the whole piece? The car horn can be out helicopter from Apocalypse Now. I like that.
Ok so i think this is enough for one night. Will add photos, sketches at a later date for this, poss. tomorrow. Hopefully the layout wont be as dodge in future blogs as much as this one has been. Its my first blog after all, maybe rambled a bit too much? Maybe still doing it. Just wanted to set things out a bit. And hopefully future ones will give you more of an insight!
Nan night
So today Liv, Jo and I got a vid.camera out to do our work for the un-assessed 'Transitional spaces' video work. At first didnt have the foggiest of 'Transitional spaces' even after reading the examples (Alone in that?) So i didnt really have an idea to be fair, but was somehow picturing the underpass near the train station. Slow pans, lotsa wide shots, it being empty, bit o' vertigo (I have a thing for vertigo at the min. Love it). But after i was late for the cancelled lecture this morning, Liv and Jo had 2 hours to discuss the work we were to film today and came up with the idea. They thought about a waiting space or area and focusing on aspects in that. ie. lotsa close-ups, clocks, ticking, empty space possibly? The general idea of what youd expect whilst waiting.
We were gonna film this in one of the empty rooms in Fletcher building, but Liv had 5 tapes at her house and it didn't really seem worth buying some more, so we ended up filming the same sort of idea but in her house. We almost got 15mins of footage, which was quite hard to be fair. We filmed in almost every room. We shot- pans from most angles (all sitting eye level), zooming down the corridor, wide shots, close ups of almost everything (lol) but still didn't hit the 15mins target! Oh well. All the sound was "diagetic" sounds, new word learned today.
We wanted to leave it as plain as possible to give whoever was editing our footage as much freedom to do whatever they wanted with it. At first it was hard to think of shots to do, as trying to envision the final piece was impossible..as we wouldnt be editing it- as obvious as it sounds. I think it was a well interesting way of working though, not visioning and end goal, or finished polished piece, and made me think that the other group had got the harder end of the work (lol soz guys).Diagetic sounds- sounds that are recorded at the time of visual. Non diagetic- sounds that are recorded after ie. voiceovers.
We also filmed the other non assessed vid work, the 30second film based on sound. Watched a clip from Apocalypse now (1979) to get us thinking about sound in class- woah. I actually made a few notes whilst watching as well, and was so so into the clip and was so in the moment of the film (happens rarely these days). Thank you martin sheen! And i probably have Sue to thank for this but I think that today ive really opened my eyes and ears to sound, and have really started to think out of the box. Yes finally! Just the way sounds overlap each other, what sounds mean and trigger in peoples expectations, and the way you can trick or manipulate the viewer with such simple sounds! I just felt well inspired and thought about a career in the 'sound' industry? (If such a thing exists)
Anyway back to our work! I do ramble a lot, apologies in advance. We (tried to) film my face, with my eyes closed for about 30 secs, unsucessful, im a fool, i laugh. So Liv filmed Jo with her eyes closed for approx. 30secs, and at the end her eyes opening wide.
Ok now, so the sound over these 30secs- it starts off with general pub hubbub, then parts of convo hinting character drink driving over lap this. Sounds of traffic starts to creep in over these until you hear screeching and a crash sound. And then (Liv's) car horn. Beeeep. Dont want it to sound too long, and i dont want it to end like this. Too cliche and cheesy otherwise? Thoughts please. So want to go back to general pub hubbub towards the end, maybe have the faint noise of car horn too? Maybe even throughout the whole piece? The car horn can be out helicopter from Apocalypse Now. I like that.
Ok so i think this is enough for one night. Will add photos, sketches at a later date for this, poss. tomorrow. Hopefully the layout wont be as dodge in future blogs as much as this one has been. Its my first blog after all, maybe rambled a bit too much? Maybe still doing it. Just wanted to set things out a bit. And hopefully future ones will give you more of an insight!
Nan night
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