Over these past fews days i have been filming my garden sculpture and then have been editing it.
I set the whole scene up with two lighting cameras around it and then one orange spotlight camera. This set off interesting deep dark shadows, places where you cant see into - this was a good effect. I therefore naturally filmed most of it in this 'nighttime/ twilight time', and it worked well. I can understand why Crewdson utalises this time so much. Using the DSLR camera lent itself to some sharp image footage, however, because of it being so focused, it easily picked out the non smooth camera movements. I was hoping that with the aid of my wheels/track thing i could get a smooth movement, and i somewhat did. But i was still relying on myself to push it at a constant speed, and it was that which didnt pull off. So in some of the footage it is a bit start stoppy.
Post production, after looking at all the footage gained, i believe i could put it together in some sort of a montage, flittering from different parts/ camera angles/ lighting.
Something that i have never done is to put people in my work, but whilst having the green screen up, i decided to film myself and to maybe place myself in the work - just for fun. But since doing so, i think i actually quite like the effect, but i am still very unsure. The initial footage is bad, the background needs a lot of work done to it, and the green screen wasn't taught enough to get a full colour tone all over, but maybe it could work? I would need to take a lot more time over it if i were to do it again, i would at least know what i was looking out for.
I have been thinking more and more about this perfect American dream, and thought about the possibility of: If i were to film myself to go in the scene again, i could be doing strange ritualistic things that the american housewife would be doing but in the wrong place. For example: Hoovering the lawn, cleaning the fence panels with polish, sunbathing at night-time, cutting the lawn with scissors. I think this could be something quite fun to play with, and then once i have all of this footage, put it together as some sort of montage.
I set the whole scene up with two lighting cameras around it and then one orange spotlight camera. This set off interesting deep dark shadows, places where you cant see into - this was a good effect. I therefore naturally filmed most of it in this 'nighttime/ twilight time', and it worked well. I can understand why Crewdson utalises this time so much. Using the DSLR camera lent itself to some sharp image footage, however, because of it being so focused, it easily picked out the non smooth camera movements. I was hoping that with the aid of my wheels/track thing i could get a smooth movement, and i somewhat did. But i was still relying on myself to push it at a constant speed, and it was that which didnt pull off. So in some of the footage it is a bit start stoppy.
Post production, after looking at all the footage gained, i believe i could put it together in some sort of a montage, flittering from different parts/ camera angles/ lighting.
Something that i have never done is to put people in my work, but whilst having the green screen up, i decided to film myself and to maybe place myself in the work - just for fun. But since doing so, i think i actually quite like the effect, but i am still very unsure. The initial footage is bad, the background needs a lot of work done to it, and the green screen wasn't taught enough to get a full colour tone all over, but maybe it could work? I would need to take a lot more time over it if i were to do it again, i would at least know what i was looking out for.
I have been thinking more and more about this perfect American dream, and thought about the possibility of: If i were to film myself to go in the scene again, i could be doing strange ritualistic things that the american housewife would be doing but in the wrong place. For example: Hoovering the lawn, cleaning the fence panels with polish, sunbathing at night-time, cutting the lawn with scissors. I think this could be something quite fun to play with, and then once i have all of this footage, put it together as some sort of montage.