The video example we chose is different from the case studies we presented to the class. It’s a scenic video highlighting places of interests in Italy shot with various camera/editing techniques such as timelapse, glidecam, and slow motion. The video heavily relies on places or things of interests instead of a narrative.
Following the case study we chose to follow proved to be challenging when thinking of areas to shoot in Melbourne as there aren’t many places and point of interests to film, and the ones that are tend to have high pedestrian traffic. The lack of space to shoot these places was an issue as well because it didn’t allow certain angles for the video to be shot in and it didn’t help that there were many objects present that obstructed the view.
I found thinking up ideas that were relevant to the video example to be slightly difficult and restrictive. This is because most of the ideas that I did think up of were an original concept of its own that does not tie-in with the example’s non-narrative structure and its style. Trying to follow the example’s shooting style was also hard to do because we didn’t have high-quality, professional gear to use. This resulted in a lot of shaky movement in the videos I shot as opposed to the example’s smooth, gliding movement. However, instead of lamenting over that issue, I decided to have the shaky movement as a part of the sketch. Rather than have smooth gliding movement, I decided to have a sketch be shot in first-person perspective. The main point of both the example and the sketch is to show off the place or thing of interest.