POTENTIAL DIRECTION 2...
Timelapse/Slowmotion
These timelapse and slowmotion shots from my trials in filmmaking techniques make extensive use of warped time to show movement happening in ways which we cannot normally see. Primarily, these techniques focus on changes. I would like to combine the two techniques of speeding up time (static timelapse & hyperlapse) with some methods of slowmotion to depict the ideas of movement and change.
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Potentially, I would like to create a series of timelapse videos of people and things in nature. This could include clouds, sunsets/sunrises, flowers, traffic, waves, stars, parties, fruit growing, or fruit rotting. As well as these timelapses, I would like to create another series of slowmotion videos capturing things which move too quickly for humans to see. I would love to explore human facial expressions and gestures along with the way animals move. Other things to explore in slowmotion could be water, fire, paint, and objects falling and smashing. I’d like to bring my two video collections together by playing both my timelapse footage and my slowmotion footage at the same time. I could either execute this through a split screen effect all on one monitor, or alternatively use two monitors running simultaneously. This contrast in different types of changes in our world could be quite effective in getting my themes across to an audience.
Movement is a major aspect of my exploration proposal and the ideas I intend to explore through my artworks, and timelapse and slowmotion photography almost seem like the perfect method to explore and realise these ideas. |
I also wrote in my exploration proposal that “I would like my pieces to provoke thoughts in the audience which make them question the legitimacy of the world around them… I will explore different art elements and principles such as… harmony, and contrast.” Harmony and contrast are two elements which I can express greatly through this direction, especially by placing both the timelapse and slowmotion shots alongside each other.
The timelapse and slow motion videos which I created in my trials stage were quite crude in their form, meaning that if this is a direction which I will potentially go with, I will need to improve and refine my skills in a few areas. Largely working out the correct speed to take timelapses of different things (ie, how much time to leave between each shot) and methods of stabilizing future hyperlapse videos. Lighting in slow motion shots is another aspect which I will need to refine, as the higher the framerate of a camera (120fps in my trials) the higher the shutter speed must be, causing many lights especially fluorescent lights running on a 50HZ frequency to flicker in the resulting footage (this is evident in the first two shots in the above video.) I will need to take steps to prevent this by using other light sources. |