I've always been interesting in expanding beyond the constraints time and space of a single photographic image. What we experiemented with yesterday as our warm up activity was perhaps another sort of way of thinking about these aspects in relation to film and viedo, which is essentially composed of a multitude of single still frames which, when combined create movement. Inspired by the likes of The Matrix or an ad by Toshiba, we were to create our own bullet effect by setting up a series of cameras to go off in sequence around a moving figure.
Even though I'd been hoping for a group activity for a change from the individual but our group of a dozen or so proved to be a little difficult to co-ordinate. We began by attempting to find a way to set up a dozen cameras spanning across a spectrum of brand, quality and models, no two cameras alike. We went into the logistics of timer, resolution, zoom, aperture, focus and the like before decided to just go for it and give it a go. We quickly abandoned using multiple cameras in favour of one SLR shooting on burst. initial ideas including everyone in a chain moving around the camera to emulate the movement of the camera but this did not have the indented effect.
We only managed to deviate even further from there from there with everyone having their own vision as to how we could approach. After experimenting and tossing around ideas as bit more, we simplified it back down with the single camera moving around a single figure, rising up from a crouch, perform a movement to return to the crouching position by the time the camera had completed a half circle around him.
As usual, artistic license and individuality came out in our chosen movement which we would then attempt to weave together into a video. I was perhaps a little too ambitious and managed to strain my legs a bit. Each individual persons' segment went something like this:
I thought it would be quite funny to put these together as some sort of cheesy superhero team , but then ended up attempting to shoot a playground as my setting in which to place the people. I used the same method to moving around it while my camera was on burst to give that sense of space and perspective so as to not lose the effect of the movement of the figure when the original background was chroma keyed out. I chose a playground as the movements were quite playful and it would provide different elements and levels to place the figures.
This to was abandoned due to my not having taken enough shots to create a fluid enough back ground and simplified it down instead to the figures starting outside a paper box which would then close on them and when it reopened, it would be a different person inside. If I chose to develop this further, it would be fun to play with different timings so as to have more than one box at a time and having people almost teleporting from box to box.
The overall effect was quite rough as a result of the original images with jagged transitions and the background not entirely keyed out. It was an interesting effect which could be interesting if controlled and worked for the nature of the relatively simple one day activity to introduce an idea. I personally would want to keep my images more crisp and refined but I do like the simplistic sort of stop motion effect of composing the images, which again relates to the content of the video. Even if this can't specifically be integrated into the next studio project, the concepts will undoubtedly have potential to carry over.
Even though I'd been hoping for a group activity for a change from the individual but our group of a dozen or so proved to be a little difficult to co-ordinate. We began by attempting to find a way to set up a dozen cameras spanning across a spectrum of brand, quality and models, no two cameras alike. We went into the logistics of timer, resolution, zoom, aperture, focus and the like before decided to just go for it and give it a go. We quickly abandoned using multiple cameras in favour of one SLR shooting on burst. initial ideas including everyone in a chain moving around the camera to emulate the movement of the camera but this did not have the indented effect.
We only managed to deviate even further from there from there with everyone having their own vision as to how we could approach. After experimenting and tossing around ideas as bit more, we simplified it back down with the single camera moving around a single figure, rising up from a crouch, perform a movement to return to the crouching position by the time the camera had completed a half circle around him.
As usual, artistic license and individuality came out in our chosen movement which we would then attempt to weave together into a video. I was perhaps a little too ambitious and managed to strain my legs a bit. Each individual persons' segment went something like this:
I thought it would be quite funny to put these together as some sort of cheesy superhero team , but then ended up attempting to shoot a playground as my setting in which to place the people. I used the same method to moving around it while my camera was on burst to give that sense of space and perspective so as to not lose the effect of the movement of the figure when the original background was chroma keyed out. I chose a playground as the movements were quite playful and it would provide different elements and levels to place the figures.
This to was abandoned due to my not having taken enough shots to create a fluid enough back ground and simplified it down instead to the figures starting outside a paper box which would then close on them and when it reopened, it would be a different person inside. If I chose to develop this further, it would be fun to play with different timings so as to have more than one box at a time and having people almost teleporting from box to box.
The overall effect was quite rough as a result of the original images with jagged transitions and the background not entirely keyed out. It was an interesting effect which could be interesting if controlled and worked for the nature of the relatively simple one day activity to introduce an idea. I personally would want to keep my images more crisp and refined but I do like the simplistic sort of stop motion effect of composing the images, which again relates to the content of the video. Even if this can't specifically be integrated into the next studio project, the concepts will undoubtedly have potential to carry over.
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