Embed some or all of the sound and video footage from the week 11 exercise.
How did your group try to use perspective and/or depth of field in both the video footage and the sound footage?
I was not able to complete this exercise myself, but by watching the footage taken by my group, I could still gather some new/interesting discoveries and ideas.
Heidi and Filip chose to use a range of camera angles and recording distances to play on the depth and perspective that is presented.
Something that stood out to me was the audio footage. Each of the recordings made me feel a different way, even though all of the recordings were of Filip speaking on the phone. The reason behind this is because of the way the sound was recorded. For example, one sound was recorded at a distance to the microphone, you could hear Filips conversation faintly, but could still hear what he was saying. I felt as though I was eavesdropping on his conversation. Whereas, another sound was recorded closer to the microphone, Filip’s voice was loud and clear. This felt like I was positioned as the microphone of the phone, as though I was meant to listen to what he was saying.
What are the next steps for your group work following the consults in class on Thursday?
In Thursday’s class we had a great consultation with Sophie. Our main concern after filming the interview section of our project was that it may not be exploring the characters’ embodied experience enough.
Sophie provided us with advice on creating useful b-roll. These are the notes that I wrote down:
Notes taken by Zoe Anderton 19/05/2002
The next step for our group is to create a B-roll shot list for our filming on Sunday. To do this we all need to do at least a rough edit of our interview sections of the project then we will be able to feel the emotions of our characters and see what b-roll would be most fitting.
