This video embedded above was made for week two’s homework assignment, which simply required us to make a video of us ‘making the bed’. This was one of those tasks that was easier said than done, I had no idea how to film myself making the bed. The video begins with my lamp randomly switching on – ingenious idea by my partner, pretty tacky, am I right? But it made for a mildly amusing intro and outro shot, so I was like ‘hey, what the hell’.

Throughout this video the camera constantly changes perspectives, jumping back and forth from me, to the bed, me, to the bed. The idea of perspective – what it means, how it should be used, how it can be used seamlessly – is all uncharted territory for me. From the time I began filming this video I was contemplating: what perspective should each shot be? and why should it change?. Ultimately I just ended up changing perspectives/shots based on what was the most visually interesting, but i’m not sure if thats how it should be done and i’m not sure if it really works. I definitely noticed, when I watched my video back, that the shot changes were really obvious, they didn’t flow together seamlessly . I think this is a combination of two things: 1 – the changing of shots/perspectives is unmotivated and 2 – the angle of the shot change is either too minute, or too extreme to allow it to feel natural.

How can I master this? you ask. Practice? Ask Paul? Watch more Antonioni? – These are on my to do list.

 

Until next time,

Louise Alice Wilson