Apologies that its been a while since my last update but a few exciting projects have been taking up my time, in a very enjoyable but time consuming way.
I’m still working with the video piece as the recording event was extensive so I have a great deal of footage to use, here’s another film still from the latest version. The participants as you can see from my previous posts are all clothed, which was a decision I made after some tests, they were shot in a small tank as opposed to a more expansive body of water. The below image was from the first test (tank)and my volunteer was an excellent participant but the resultant images reminded me somewhat of a “…tense, nervous headache” advert so along with rethinking the presence of clothing to normalise the person whilst exaggerating their out-of-placeness, I decided a radical change would be needed for the next filming. The first test made use of a plastic bag type invention that you can place your camera in ‘safely’ and submerge it…scarily we read the instructions multiple times and miraculously it worked! Sadly the quality wasn’t superb though so a very expensive camera and housing was hired for the second shoot…in for a penny in for a pound I thought, though it was many, many pounds more! Still a fraction of the purchase price so in hindsight it was a good decision.
Anyway, after my editing course I had felt that I was quite pleased with the 10-minute film outcome but thats the rub, once you develop your skills you get more ambitious and so I’ve been reworking the film for the past few months….check out my next entry for an update on my progress, thanks for reading!
