Importing, I was impressed by uniformity of the circles taken using a tripod and liked the contrast with those not using a tripod. Before trimming clips en masse, I figured out the correct phrase timings. It looked good. I then went ahead trimming clips en masse. I organized them thematically and had some semblance of a narration. Any mention of the nuances of the editing process will just detract from the piece. I’ll mention them here:
- Having noticed a thematic thread among my images, I decided I would delineate some sort of meangful narrative. I had thought all along that I wouldn't have wanted just a random assembly of images, but rather something that on a deeper level would invoke some sort of response.
- I started with the worm's eye shot out the exterior window from a skewed angle to begin with. It sort of suggests morning or at least a sense of wonder at the clouds outside. The implication is that it is a circle although that the image is an ellipse from the angle I shot at. Otherwise, when I took the shot, I just knew that it would be a perfect opening shot.
- Next, I juxtaposed more images that suggest morning, or some sort of routine that would prepare someone to facing the day.
- I repeated images, but obviously not in consecutive order. The effect evokes, within each "phrase" of the piece, a sense of repitition. Yes, this is redundant, but my motif is about circles. So, it's just another to invoke circularity.
- Then I selected images that suggest mobility, or transportation. Placed after images of routine, it begins to make sense; after we get ready for something, we have to get there, somehow.
- After this is a human element, a close of my friend's eye. It's the first image that isn't a uniformly sized circle. It was also the first example of how I'm limited by equipment, the field of view on the camera can't do extreme close ups. So I couldn't do my Kubrick homage, unfortunately. Other than that, it suggests individual disuniformity. (I think that' s a word, I'm trying to avoid using cliched descriptions, so I'll use obtuse ones instead.)
- Among that are images suggesting a destination, like work or school or some other place.
- Next are images of art or music. I'm guessing this is a "day in the life of..." an art or music student, or both. Or maybe I just thought the images looked good and worked together as a theme.
- The fifth phrase is unfortunately the last phrase, and I kinda wondered how I had only used about 35 of the 90 or so images already, and realized I couldn't include a lot of them. Such is the fortune of someone who takes a lot of footage.
- The last phrase is unofficially night, or some sort of winding down. The glowing round thing is the moon, and like the eyes, the camera doesn't have great telephoto capabilities. I wanted, however, to include it simply because it was a beautiful full moon taken on a crisp, cold, and clear night. The aluminum can was a Moutain Dew can, so one could say that this is really a day in the life of a student, something we could relate to (also as we will see in the phrase, night almost instantly turns into day, like a sleep deprived student).
- The passage of time is clear in my motif, it is appropriate that the last tempometrically similar image is a clock before it rushes into the final blur of images, framed through the eyes of my final subject. After that, I repeat the opening image before ending, suggesting that the series of images could be repeated again in a similar fashion. If anything, the piece suggests that the formula for existence is, Day, night, repeat.
And that is all. Movie will be uploaded once Netfiles works properly:
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