OTF Reflection 7
This video is based on the discussion we had during our week three class about movement in film. I had always thought of movement in film in terms of camera movement or the object or person on screen. The concept of temporal movement is fascinating as even though the camera is not moving, time keeps ticking by. The cinematic frame is not just a signifier of time, it is time itself, the film’s time. The physical boundaries limit the space of the film but the components of the frame dictate how time moves in accordance to what needs to be portrayed on the screen. Filmmakers use expansion of time (slow motion) to show fast actions at a speed in which the the human eye can see it or use a cut to skip days, weeks or years in a story to move the plot along to the relevant point in time.
With this video I wanted to play with the concept of a still camera and disordered time. Each person was filmed walking down the hallway seperately and then I edited the footage temporally. I slowed it down, I sped it up and I even placed them all within the frame simultaneously to give the illusion that they were walking together. There is a simple montage being shown but behind the lack of camera movement and the spy music the cinematic frame mastery over time.
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