Today we decided to meet up to complete our next video and audio pieces as a group. Our group does its best work when we’re all together; bouncing ideas off each other, recording footage efficiently and editing. The audio piece we were responding to is predominately about water. It has a description of water including its functions and purpose, accompanied with droplets and tap sounds in the background. From this, we decided to follow the theme and record footage of different sources of water. At RMIT there is a fountain which has lots of different compartments where water streams out of, so we headed straight there, set our phone cameras to slow motion and recorded. Lucas had an empty boost juice cup, so we decided to keep it and use it in the footage. I stood on it and water went everywhere including up the entire left side of my jeans. Lydia was in charge of the audio, in which we recorded different ways of us saying water, and anything else to do with water including ocean, waves and drip. Pat was able to merge his footage of coloured food dye in a fish bowl into the video piece, and the main techniques used were fading transitions and layering of different footage making the opacity on 50%.

The tap at the end of the video is meant to represent bringing things back to life and using an object even when it’s broken. It shows a broken tap with a non-existent handle, and by pouring water of the top of it, we were able to give it back it’s purpose, showing how objects can still be in use when broken.