So I’ve just got home from the last of my shoots (I filmed over the course of 3 nights). Choosing outdoors, at night time was a bit of a hindrance, because it limited me to only the last 5 or 6 hours of the day and one night it was pouring so I lost another few hours of time to that…but at least it’s done now.
One of my locations, the statue outside of a conservatory in Carlton will probably be unusable even without having watched it back yet. I just don’t think I could find the right placement for the camera because of a water feature limiting where I could place it in relation to the lights. But other than that everything went well.
In the studio this week, I showed a couple of quick edits that I threw together of the first two locations I had filmed this past weekend. The feedback i got back gave me a lot to go on, as I really wasn’t sure whether I was approaching this the right way with one of my edits. In the red triangle car park video (seen below), I have superimposed some projector-esque elements that hint at the function of the space (or rather, the function of the space that owns the car park). I thought perhaps this might be detracting from the main goal of the piece which is to explore the movement of light and its interaction with the space and how that affects the audience’s attention. However, James mentioned that he thought that it added a certain element of uncertainty to the piece, and this fits in perfectly with the exploration of “wondering” that I am trying to delve into with these pieces. Anything that invites the audience to wonder about the space is definitely something I want to include in the piece.