City View

Finished Final Video. Enjoy

Bright Lights

This is my final rough cut video sketch

Intersecting Lines

Here is my second rough sketch video

Interruption

Here is a video shot of objects moving downtown. Someone most unceremoniously ran in front of one of my shots and I included it in the video.

Production Strategy

A promising area for me to further examine for Drift 3 would be in the downtown area. When I went on Drift 2 i found that the best pictures I got came from that area. I'm sure there are plenty of interesting sounds there also, because when I walked through residential areas all I got was wind chimes or snow blowers. There wasn't much to offer. I was thinking a good area to investigate would be state street at the north end. water street at the west, the lake at the east and wisconsin avenue at the south. I would just explore all the sounds and images contained here. To limit my image capture strategies I think i am going to take pictures of intersecting angles and maybe some of walls or flat surfaces, and maybe some of moving objects. To limit my sound capturing strategies I want to go for more mechanical sounds than anything. I'm not really looking for birds chirping or dogs barking, i want an industrial feel to my sounds.

10 Questions

1. Are there any cool patterns to discover downtown?

2. If I wait until dusk could I get some really dynamic pictures?

3. Are there any interesting shadows that could be worked with?

4. Could puddles be used to reflect images?

5. Are there any man made things that make interesting shapes?

6. Could traffic movements make for some interesting ideas?

7. Can the wind change a lot of things in a landscape?

8. Could people interfere if too many are outside?

9. Would garbage make for some interesting pictures?

10. Could interfering with nature help develop some good ideas?

Assessment 4

My favorite situation to arise during my drifts was in a park by MSOE.  I had been walking around for a good amount of time, thinking about how terrible the weather was and how many more pictures I should take.  Then I noticed some geese just standing a couple of feet away from the sidewalk near a big tree.  They were just eating and making their quacking noises, just taking it easy.  It got me thinking, that sure this weather sucked but at least I have an apartment to go home and not have to sleep outside in the freezing cold.  It also made me think about how fortunate I am not to have to forage for food.  I can just go to walgreens and pick up some food instead of wondering around picking up debris out of the grass to eat.  Seeing the geese kind of got me back into the right frame of mind instead of stressing out about getting the project done and back into a warm place.  Because as much as life can suck sometimes, at least I didn't have to worry about what geese have to deal with on an everyday basis.  And then when hunting season comes around they got a whole lot more things to look out for.  Poor geese.