I’m leaning towards filming an audio/visual collage. Audio/Visual because they are both of equal importance, rather than the music accompanying the footage or the footage accompanying the music.

The exact location I haven’t decided, though it will definitely be a place of nature. Forests, parklands, waterfalls are all under consideration. The music will be the ambient/new age music I have been creating. To me, nature-related footage and ambient/new age music go hand in hand.

I’m interested in lo-fi media, and would like this to be the aesthetic of the collage. For the visual side, I would like to shoot with something that achieves a vintage look. This would likely be a camcorder. For the audio side, I would manipulate the overall sound to try and replicate the quality of a cassette, though I naturally try to achieve this sound whenever I make something.

I’m not sure whether it will be one collage, or a series of collages. I feel like many different collages are achievable. Maybe 4/5 that add up to 20 minutes total. Maybe that’s ambitious.

The inspiration for this has been my own experiments with audio and shooting. I tend to visit parks whenever I am within close proximity, and always voice record on my iPhone to capture any sounds that I could end up sampling; the wind, birds chirping, a gentle stream. I also like to shoot footage; it excites me, I could watch a montage of a waterfalls for hours.