IDEA 3 - short film exploring memory using burst shot

A Short Film Exploring Memory Using Burst Shot


Memory is an individual experience, absorption of senses, in their intiratory or singular. A person might just remember an image, or in fact the smells, sounds, feeling and even tastes. One person’s experiences of a same event are different to another’s of the exact same event.

I would like to explore these ideas of memory and create a piece of video which explores a narrative from two or more people’s memories.


How are they the same?
What are the main differences between the two narratives?
What really happened?
Who was right or closest?
What effected people’s memories?

I could use wall mounted CCTV for what actually happened VS the memories, but use twists in the story. As an example the end could shot someone slicing up video to create a distorted reality of events. This would leave the viewer confused as to what actually reality, if there even was a true reality. Studies have shown that when powerful moving events occur memories are strongly
Remembered to the reality.

In a world where we are constantly under surveillance so we need a memory?

A common example is of the twin towers collapse, people were able to give very strong recollections from years ago about what they ate that morning, what they were doing, what they were wearing ect, but they couldn’t remember what they had for breakfast 2 mornings ago.

I have seen a style which uses photography to create film. I would like to try frame by fame
Photography to create an animation. I think this will be fun to play around with the idea of
fragmented memory in a very fragmented way. Choosing to slice out, or edit certain frame(s) to show the view how a person perceives memories. I explored this in my first year but I wasn’t very satisfied with the results. I used a similar method, which I now realize was a wrong idea.


The following part of the blog is not from my PDF sketchbook...

After looking into this idea more i decided to do afew experiments using my nikon SLR with a f1.8 50mm lens and a f3.5 18mm wideangle lens i was able to create two compositions which explored some of the basic ideas which i wanted to use if i did decided to go head with this as a final inital idea.

I have uploaded them onto youtube.
They have no audio as they were just shot on a bust mode i did 3fps so every second of motions has only 3 frames but i then rendered the animaion out as 12fps, which gave the desired speed i wanted.

I quickly sketchout out a basic narrative into my notbook with ideas of camera angles. Once i had done this i had to sort out some lighting for the lens as too low of a shutter speed would cause too much bluring.

I wanted to use something which was very basic and put a differant outlook onto how something is done. I wasn't focusing on the ideas of memories like in my idea, more of how i could relate this too my main theme of photograph and the techniques of how it is done. This helpped me get an idea on time management for the rest of the year.

If i made it for a final piece of work it would need to add sound. The lighting, angles and photographic style would be compleatly re-designed based on the themes of the narrative which itself would be far more complex than just making a cup of tea.

here are the two videos i created.

Make Tea not War





How to Make Pizza




I used a Nikon D80 on burst mode to create these effects. Chosing angles then setting lighting after the angle was set. The first video consisted of about 200 shots. The latter had 800+. I then took each image into Adobe Lightroom a image editing softwear and set the style i was going for.

In the first video i wanted to explore a lomographic style using a digital vignetting and a slightly boosted level of vibrance although the lighting used was very vibrant.

The second video i wanted to take out the colour information to see how this would effect the lighting, and the food. I think this added more texture and lighting atmosphere, but the apeal of the food was lost.