Project Brief 3 requires at least 30% of our final products to be found footage under Creative Commons license. This means I’ve had to spend a fair amount of time searching the internet for clips that I might be able to use for my project, and I’ve found many interesting videos so far.

I quite like archive.org. While a lot of the clips are home videos that I don’t really think are of a high enough quality to include in my project, there is also a collection of old films from as early as the 1920s. I’m planning to interview a friend of mine who is currently studying to become a dancer and spends 6 days a week rehearsing. I’ve been looking through this collection for footage of dancers, and some of the clips I want to use are really quite beautiful, and I think the aged look of the film only adds to their beauty.

Before starting this course, I’d only really been interested in narrative film and always seen my end goal as becoming a director. But seeing all of this footage and thinking about how I can re-edit it for my own purposes really excites me. I recently sent some of my own home videos off to be digitised, and when I find some time I hope to use it to create another project outside of class. I’m just kind of excited by all these new possibilities that I’ve only really thought about in these last few weeks.