I managed to get a good fine cut done on Friday, which means I am ahead of schedule. I expected to only have a rough cut by then. It has really come together in the process. It was always the case that the editing is what makes this piece interesting. It is more abstract, and the way i ended up putting it together is having bursts of time-lapse, and breaking it up with pieces of the interview. So now, the most important part is the get the colour grading looking really nice, as I think getting attractive looking film is what is going to make all the actions stand out. Plus I think I have more leeway to do something more creative with this one, so if I go overboard with the filters it doesn’t matter too much. If all goes well, I should have ‘remnants’ finished by tomorrow, which reminded me; I was never fully content with the name remnants. It was good as a working title, but I am looking for something better to name the piece by tomorrow. I just think the word is too general, or maybe its too common and I want it to be more hipster sounding. Either way, I have consulted the thesaurus for a few ideas.

Vestige: I like this one, as it suggests the architecture is left over but the people that used it are gone and the building is more of an empty shell these days. It also suggests impermanence, right now the building is being used for something, but in the future the space will not be used in this way.

Motley: I was considering this as it communicates the idea of collage and layers, but I thought it was kind of insulting to the architects as it suggests the building is incongruous, which it isn’t.

Mélange: This word sounds and looks nice, and gets across the collage idea, but not so much the history idea.

At this point ‘Vestige’ or ‘Vestiges’ seems the best option. It communicates the idea of trace elements and remnants, but also the idea of history and loss of functionality and use.