Monday, 16 November 2015

Journey to college video #2 - slow version

Click here to view on Vimeo: Journey to college #2 - slow version


Following on from the 'fast version',  I attempted a 'slow' version, to represent a narrative where I left home with enough time to not be rushing and could therefore be a little more relaxed or contemplative. Still wanting to utilise a piece of my own music, I found that the soundtrack for this piece was more 'sad' than anything (an problem I have always encountered when trying to make slow or subtle pieces of music) and two of the responses I had to this version were that it was either building up to something unfortunate at the end of the journey or that it was similar to a sequence from a film or TV show that featured some kind of murder or crime.
Either way, the pace was slowed down and the narrative and tone were altered, though the images remained the same. The fact that the camera lingers on them for longer gives the viewer the chance to contemplate what has happened (or whichever tense they assign to the story), while the music sets the tone in the absence of any narrator. The slight movement in each image (created by the Ken Burns effect) is also well suited to the pace of this version.
While the four versions of this video are all accompanied by music, I would like to return to the idea at some point and add a voiceover of some kind (in the style of Patrick Keiller's London and Robinson In Space), and some field recordings of the background noise at  each point where a photo is taken.

Two clips from London:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgHBACzfkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxIeRsUirg

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