I am continuing to work on this Braille concept. To go with the alphabet recital and visual representation of the Braille code I have edited in some footage I shot myself and a beat underneath to emphasise the rhythm of cuts. For this edit, the tempo of the beat is 120BPM. This means that for every 2 beats of a bar, 1 second elapses. I purposely cut each shot into 1 second segments to create this rhythm (to be honest, I have been using maths again to figure some of this stuff out)… It is just enough time to show what is happening, but not enough to fully process it.
The audio track itself is a work in progress, and I have found myself going between editing the song and editing the video to trial a few different things. It sounds a bit jarring (I quantised a random set of drum samples), but I like the uneasiness or unsureness that comes with it. I believe it captures my perception of what it would be like to be blind.
For the most part, this piece below serves as a prototype for what is to come. As discussed with Paul in class, it might be an idea to play around with the tempo of the cuts and perhaps split up the Braille grid into individualised shots and see how it compares to this one. I’m pretty happy with how the grid looks at the moment though, I think having individual shots for each grid number may throw out the symmetry.
Anyway, this is what I have so far:
Braille Alphabet Copy 03 from Gabriel Strachan on Vimeo.
– Gabe