Week 7. Bec’s video sketch task.
This is a refreshingly simple sketch video. I assume it is for the sketch task about immediate relations where you cannot show anyone’s face.
It is a single shot of a dining table with food on it. The camera is eye-level with the table. The composition is really beautiful and simple – plate out of focus in foreground, glass bottle of water in background, food-filled bowl to right, and just the arm of an elderly woman holding a fork behind this bowl. The arm is moving, relaxedly gesturing, apparently in conversation. The handheld quality sort of matches this relaxed, delicate movement of the arm. It’s a fragile quality. Sort of quiet. Truthful. The shot is essentially a fly-on-the-wall shot. The viewer is just that: a viewer. An outside observer. Completely separate from the events on screen. And it feels like the sketch video is a moment frozen in time. It looks like a grainy, old-style effect has been added to the image as well. This subtly adds to the idea that it’s a moment frozen in time.
A song replaces the sync sound. The lyrics are, “We don’t eat until your father’s at the table.” Although the song works well with the style and content of the of shot, perhaps it would have also worked to have had just the sync sound. The sound of the conversation with only a fraction of the visuals (the arm gesturing in the corner). Either way, COOL VID :)
GRANMDADINNERFINAL from Jack Lucas on Vimeo.