our task this week was a simple one, take 3 six second videos of square objects and 3 six second videos of round things. sorry, i should say deceptively simple. i don’t even know why but this task stumped me. and it shouldn’t have. i mean, come on, 36 seconds worth of video… how can that be hard?

but for me i think it was the implications of these videos. what would they be used for? what if i don’t do them right? what if they don’t look good? there was the struggle of trying to decide what to film (should i literal?

metaphorical? rhetorical? sarcastic?). Next came wondering whether i’m supposed to just film something straight for 6 seconds, like a 6 second photo or if that particular something should be moving or doing something or if the camera should be moving? what if the 6 seconds get boring? thank god they didn’t ask us to film a triangle shaped thing too!! coz i don’t think i have anything in my house that would fit those requirements and i would have stubbled even more! although, it is the Jewish festival or Purim coming up this weekend and we do eat these weird triangle cookies called hamentashens (don’t ask what they are or why). on the downside, my sister is on camp and she’s the baker of the family so we don’t actually have any around even if i did want to randomly film some.

but, despite my issues with the shapes, my overall struggle, as i’ve mentioned in a previous post, is that i still don’t fully understand the interactive documentary or the korsakow films. how are they structured? how do we make them? what do they look like and how do we view them? i understand that we took these videos to make our first film but i like to see a whole picture and know how it’s all going to fit together up front rather than start a task blindly, not sure how it’s gonna look at the end. I guess this is kinda what adrian mentioned in that first lecture, being able to put all the small pieces together to see the big picture at the end. i’m just not quite there yet. and i guess thats why i didn’t really know how to make these videos because i don’t know how they are going to look and work together when they are put together.