Thinking of how I could make my illusion of motion better

The way I could make this project better is by maybe doing it in a different location, as where I have done mine at first there is a lot of noise as there is a lot going on in the background, so if I did it in a different location, it would look a lot better as you would only be focussed on the item that is moving rather than the background as well.

I also could have done different ideas but it was quite difficult to think of different ideas that would work as the specification was we had to take multiple photos of something that moves and make it into a gif.

Photos of box from I am here project

This little box had a piece of paper in it with the word opportunity written endless amounts of times as I see the university as an endless road of opportunities that I’ll have whilst at university, because I feel it has already given me a lot of opportunities because I’ve met new people I’ve learned new skills and more.

Final Experimental Film

This is the last edit, and its the most experimental one I’ve done as it includes reverses, speed ups and a bit more moving about of the different clips so it looks a lot more experimental than any other edits that I had done and I feel this is the best one out of the whole lot.

As I believe I have shown off more of my skills in editing on this last edit compared to the very first one as my editing skills are starting to improve a lot more.

Artist that I based my experimental film on

I looked at various youtube videos of people’s daily routines, to see how they had filmed them, and I tried to reimagine it in my own way as I thought it was an interesting idea to do and even though it had probably been done a lot, I wanted to try and do it in my own way and put my own spin on it.

I took inspiration from a few different parts of both of these videos, the one of the left he’s going to catch a train and he’s filming his feet as he’s walking which I did and the one on the right he’s brushing his teeth and he’s about to go for a shower which I sort of put in mine.

The difference between mine and these they both have a lot more editing experience than I do and they both use a lot of time lapses or speed it up a lot which I didn’t do in mine which I probably should and to see how it turns out and see how it looks if it changes anything in my film.

Research For Experimental Film

Before I did the idea of the bike wheel I tried to come up with a few different ideas on what I could do it on, because the brief was, we had to take photos of an object or make one that spins and make it into a gif to look like it was moving, so I thought about doing a dog running for a ball, someone running a long somewhere, a car wheel going, a bike wheel turning, and a rugby scrum or a line out to see how they would look.

The two ideas I went with were the rugby scrum/line out or the bike wheel spinning as I thought that these would be the most effective out of the options that I had thought about and they would be the easiest to capture out of the many options that I had thought of.

The rugby scrum did work and it turned out ok, but it didn’t look as good as the bike wheel turning because it wasn’t as stable as the bike wheel spinning and it kept moving as I had taken photos of it compared to the bike wheel which worked really well.

I didn’t attempt to do the dog trying to catch something as I thought it would have been too difficult to film as sometimes my dog fetches stuff and sometimes he doesn’t so trying to capture that would have been very difficult.

Also, the car wheels moving would have been very difficult to be able to produce as well to be able to keep up with the car moving as the wheels are spinning as well.

1st Edit Experimental Film

this is my experimental film where I filmed my daily routine, it was all in order and then I mixed it all up to make it experimental.

I put the music over it as I thought it went quite well with the video and the song is hold on me by Kaasi.

Rhythm film

For this part of the module, I was given a task to make a song by using different rhythms, such as knocking that I could create myself, it was a simple task and it took a while to edit to make it sound good and to make it work with all the different sounds.

 

Illusion of Motion

For this project, I decided to use a bike wheel spinning as the project was about taking a set of photos, to make it look like it was moving so I did a simple bike wheel. I also decided to try and get the illusion of motion using a scrum in rugby players as they push together during the scrum.

I first looked around for ideas on what I could do for some of the things I could take spinning so I walked into the garage at home and saw my bike so I decided I’d flip it over and start spinning the wheel and I put my tripod and camera on one side of the wheel and started to spin it to see what it would look like.

Experimental Film Ideas Branch

I’ve had an idea of using my friend playing piano in a church. So you get the best sound and I’m also going to use all different angles to try and create a smaller film with all different angles as it will make the film more interesting for the viewers. I want to entice the viewers and keep them watching the film and I want people to be able to watch it over and over again.

Also, another idea I’ve had is that I could film people doing light drawings around my car to see how out would turn out, also get a few photos from doing this film as well to be able to add to my portfolio and also to my blog.

Another idea I could do is just my daily routine and film that and see how it turns out as my film can only be up to two minutes long and that would be quite easy to film. It would make for quite an interesting film as sometimes my daily routine might be different to the next and I could maybe play them next to each other to see the difference.

The idea I’m going to use is film my daily routine and add it all together in a film with titles next to what it is. So, when my alarm goes off, I’d put the time next to it in the film and the times at what I’m doing stuff such as shower, brushing teeth, eating breakfast, and then walking to the train and saying what time I’m catching the train and then my walk to university for my next lecture and add all the times I’m in lectures and learning.

I feel like this idea will work really well because, I feel like it would be interesting to watch as my daily routine could change from day to day, with what clothes I wear, the different times ill be getting the train and what times I’m getting lunch etc.

Drawing through the lens

For my film I have decided to film my daily routine because I thought it would be interesting to see whether my daily routine changed at all throughout the week, which made my film have a continuity error where you could see that I had changed clothes without realising through filming but its an experimental film so it was just for testing my filming technique.

I had a few different ideas which I want to try but haven’t got around to experimenting more yet and using different techniques during filming with different angles and perspectives which I want to try and I want to learn to edit more efficiently and be able to add more effects into my films as well as all different sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZS3iVIl8qIGn4tMedlbwJg this channel also has my experimental film on it of the old edit