First Person View second day of shooting

The variety of my shots prove dto be my downfall, as I got hom eon Saturday I realised there were very few elements that I had kept the same, and tried to mesh them together using 'blinks' and opacity to match them. I then vowed that I would never be an editor and crossed it off my list of possible things I would like to spend time doing.

I realised that if I wanted it the way I saw it in my head I would have to go back. Sunday it was closed, so I spent sunday doing the final of the fluid(see fluid post). Monday came and I went to Uni to print off my images for the book, and it was snowing and I was the abominable snowman. I printed them off, bought some spray mount, cut them down to the right size, and went out into the snow to glue my frozen fingers together with spray mount. (In fact if you look in the final version of the video, my thumb has spray mount residue on it.)

I then set out for Wallaton Day 2. Got there and found the the families of Saturday now chose to play outside in the snow which worked well for me. I quickly got down to business attaching the camera and walked through it, in a fluid motion, for I had decided the path before I got there, and what actions I would take and where. It went well, except I couldn't see what the camera saw, so I had to do it, and look back to see what worked and what didn't.

I ran into one problem, when I thought someone was being friendly in asking me if I was making an art video, so I tried to not notice the person in the film. She kept talking to me, which is when I realised she was being a bit too friendly, or not friendly at all just, and was an employee of the manor house and was telling me off for bringing drinks in. It turned out okay, expect that this was the only take that got the book how I wanted it, so I had a bit of editing to do.


I am uploading the best runs that I did. I also had not planned on having establishing shots, but because it was such a nice snowy day I wanted the footage anyways. I went on a walk in the par behind the manor house and got the first establishing shot.


I then progressed home, after seeing a guy go down the hill on a blow up raft being pulled by the leads of his dogs face-plant into the snow. He was laughing, his friends were laughing, and I was laughing. It was a moment, I tell ya.

Monday night I sat down and edited as best I could the footage. The music I had already known I was going to use, after doing that huge search for the music to the fluid piece. It is one of my favourite songs, and fits GREAT with the theme. Billlie Holliday -You Go To My Head. It is fitting because it is the kind of music I could see being played in the house, and perfectly ironic. Loof it.

Here is the video with the woman talking to me...




Here is a good one, except for the book part....