Right Now

So right now I am still shooting as much as I can with the cam quarter still and I wish I could throw some clips up here to show you (I may try again to record some clips with my digital camera while the VHS plays on my TV, it was just a little blurry and has a lot of glare on the TV right now. I hope I can post some screen shots of my recent shoots on here like I did a couple posts down.

Anyways, I have been shooting in the basement again. Shooting the fish tank again (one of the fish recently died so I got some [sad] footage of a floating fish). I've recently tried some new things with the camera too. I've been setting up shots then kind of moving on to something not set up.

For instance I had the idea of my roommate eating a banana with a fork. So I had him do that and had the camera sitting on the table cutting his head off so you only see his hands and the plate that the banana is on. Once he's almost done with the banana I moved the camera over to the burners on the stove and filmed close ups of the flames of each burner. I switched the lights off and filmed them more all the while this really creepy, spacey music (that my banana eating roommate made) is playing in the background. This is probably the most noticeable change up I have made in the project so far because it was set up. The other footage seems more observing to natural things but I don't think that its a bad thing to have shots that are set up because the aesthetic is so heavily "home movies-ish" so it's an idea i wanted to explore. I keep wanting to explore different options like I've been recently trying to not film the entire body or the faces of my roommates because I had a few shots that I thought were interesting with just the feet or just the arms and hands in the shots. Creating shots that have unknown characters that still show character in their non full form is interesting to me. Close interactions with the house and the things in the house gives you real intimate look at these people without being fully connected with their persona is what I'm going for I guess...

My project seems to be gaining more and more potential for from every time I have a day of shooting. I guess I'm at the stage right now where I'm starting to think how I would edit all this data I have collected. The first action I would take before transferring it to digital video would be to make a shot list of every single shot I have on the tape then check off the strongest/weakest ones and go from there.

I'll try to get some stills of my 2 latest shoots and put them up later tonight.