The Trip (adding narative)

Knowing I was going to use video, photography and audio I need to add to narative to give some direction to the experiments i was wanting to do. Whilst recording along my route home I relised it was a perfect location to add some narrative to my work. With lots of movement and activity.

I do not have a DV cam or anything which can produce high resolution full framerate video so just recorded sections on my w850i which has about 7fps 640x480 video. Looking at the results I relized they were really bad, peoples faces were not visable, signs were unreadable and just genrealy the quality was awful. The reason for this was the compression of the video as the format is g3p. and also the quality of the lens and processing.

I discovered a link between loss of digital data and the loss of data in human memory.
I would like to explore this idea of compression more, looking at ways I can show information loss in an image.


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Here is the route i will take, drawn on google maps. Each placemark has a description of the surroundings, and why it is a nice idea to film there.

When filming my first trip in segments, something nice happened which made me relise that I really wanted to capture the city following, as it happeneds, and that storyboarding cannot happen in such detail as event are unplanned.

If you can see from the awful quality that a police man runs past me, followed my a police car. The audio adds more drama to the scene than the video alone.



I think its quite nice how the scene starts out quite slow paces, and you hear footsteps of women walking along side me, and the cars, and just general hum of the city, then the sirent rings on over the sound and you see this florence shape sorta fly past, which adds movement and the scene become quite dramatic, then we are alerted to the noise itself as the car passes.