Week 3 – Experimenting and exploring locations

In todays session we worked with different people, not our final project groups. We had a task of using different cameras and exploring in several locations of our choice. Myself, Amelia, Abbie and Sarah worked together using the canon power shot, SX410 Is. We walked around the university campus and chose different locations we thought would be good to explore. We firstly decided to sit on a bench outside The Swan and use the camera to do a close up shot of our hands. We did a small sequence moving our hand forward and backwards and turning them over. When we watched it back and it looked really effective from the angle of the camera. We took inspiriation from one of our weekly readings ‘ Making video dance’ by McPherson,k. It says how we can choose what the audience can see, and it’s a good idea to sometimes focus in on what the audience do not usually look at. We chose the camera to be zoomed in on the hands as the audience don’t usually pay a lot of attention to the hands in a performance, this is often because we cant see them. Other locations we used was the tunnel bridge, experimenting with the sounds and moving our feet around the stones, as well as using the stairs and performing a short basic arm sequence in canon.

 

 

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