To begin with, we booked out an A1 camera and a tripod from the ERC, and started to plan. We walked around the college get some ideas and decided that we wanted to follow something on a journey. We took inspiration from Justin Johnson's video by documenting places that all followed a similar colour tone.
For example, we matched the grey metal automatic doors to the grey of the lift, and the cream walls to the beige double doors. We then had to decide on a subject, and we thought about possibly following a man from behind as he completed a journey through the college to his class for the day. We came up with a route that he should follow, set up the camera and started to film.
We got the hang of the technique after a few shots, but decided that we were not happy with the effect that the man walking gave, so we changed the idea around. Instead of watching the man walk from behind, we would show his face fairly close up from the front, therefore putting a bit of comic injection into the piece, just as Johnson had with his "finding of the ginger beer". We also decided that we wanted to take the camera off of the tripod because the shots seemed to stiff, we wanted it to look as if the man was carrying the camera himself.
We started to shoot from the start again, taking multiple shots for each part of the journey, and experimenting with the technique, and swishing different ways on each shot. This proved to be a good idea because when we came to edit the footage, we were able to reverse the footage, to make the man seem like he was done for the day and leaving college walking backwards, but the swishes were still going the same way.
As we finished editing the footage, we watched it through and we were really pleased with the way the swish turned out. However, unlike Johnson's video, ours was quite long and to keep it interesting we felt like we needed to add something extra. So we started to find a song that would compliment the comedy injection and the pace speed of the man. After much input from all of the group, we decided on Noah and the whale's "L.i.f.e.g.o.e.s.o.n" because we felt the lyrics were appropriate for the message we wanted to get across about this mans day, and also because the beat of the song matched the footsteps that the man was taking.
Overall, we worked as a group really well and all listened to each others input about the idea. We worked around a few conflicts such as the choice of the music for the video by talking the ideas over and picking out pro's and cons for all the choices before we chose one that we were all happy with.
Swish from Tash Magor on Vimeo.
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