OTF Motion-Film Activity
Here’s my motion-film activity, where I filmed three girls walking randomly. I was experimenting on the movement within the frame, aswell as of the frame itself. Although it’s a bit shaky, the actual inspiration for this sequence is from Bruce Isaacs’ The Ontology of Bullet-Time (2008) reading, where he talked about the bullet-time effect that’s used in The Matrix (1999) franchise.
The purpose of the sequence is for me to record the movement of people walking, with the frame moving simultaneously with it. The sharp-cuts are necessary to create a montage or a series of short clips representing this movement, as oppose to a very long continuous shot. The absence of sound is also part of the experiment, as I wanted the audience to focus on the visual representation of movement, and not get distract by the sound or music in the background.
Though the experiment seems random, the technique that I got to practice and the process of trying to create a bullet-time effect gave me more of an inspiration to research deeper into this process, and see what I can come up with for my Final piece.