Staying Still: Project Brief 2 from Fiona McEwan on Vimeo.
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My aim with this Project Brief was to portray the changes in my life recently in terms of speed. Not exactly my physical speed (Pfft, like I can run very fast…), but how quickly paced my life used to be when I wasn’t in control.
My father worked as a geologist, which required us to moved fairly frequently. We never stayed in a place for more than 2 or 3 years. My stay in Australia has been the longest I’ve stayed in one country since I can remember. But that doesn’t take into account of interstate moving. However, I took the plunge to make the final move on my own. I moved to Melbourne and my change of pace became slower. Naturally, that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s taking control of my life. For once, I am in charge of the pace I am making with my decisions. I portray this in my project brief using the music and editing the clips that I filmed collaborating with the sounds. With the music, the segments get slower-paced as the film progresses, portraying how my life used to be, always travelling, always having something to do. The middle segment is still a bit quick-paced, but slightly slower than the last. The last segment is at it’s slowest, the pace of the song where it should and how it was originally recorded. Other sounds that I had added are tram noises, and noises i recorded from my bedroom window: which included birds singing and wind rustling trees outside. I felt this would make a good ambience. With editing, I tried to tie in the length of the clips with the pace of the music, and since the pace of the music was progressively getting slower, the clips were slowly getting longer. The first segment was showing a lot of activities; getting up, showering, leaving and travelling during the day. The second segment is showing less activity. I was simply going out to get food, but the pace was still quick. The last portion is my usual day off, lounging, doing work in bed, wearing comfortable clothes. This is where I want to be most of the time. Not to be confused with pure laziness, I still portray that I am getting important tasks done, such as classwork and reading emails, but at my own accord and in an environment that I have chosen and am comfortable in.