iMovie of Fairground

I was given a chance to work with different types of projectors and this really helped me to develop my ideas futher of how to combine dancing with the theme fairground.

I filmed a carousel projector, projecting photographs of fairgrounds and rides on the wall.

Then I was taught a new technique, by putting a bowl of water on the overhead projector then drop ink on to it and I have filmed the process of it on the wall. See figure 1.

Figure 1: Personal Image

I started doing movements with my arms in order to respond to what I was seeing and I think that worked really well, because my first attempt of trying to combine my sewing machine progress and my dance clips together was not working, because it just didn’t feel related.

Because I did not want my face in the video clip,  I went really close up to the overhead projector and this means only my shadow was framed, which is what I wanted. Also the clothing that I was wearing worked very well, because it was kind of see through, this meant the things that were happening on the overhead projector were still able to be seen.

After I put the all the clips together, I was really playing with the idea of time; I was slowing selection of clips down so that it almost looked like a still image.

I was really into the idea of looking behind the scene of the performance, because I know that being a performer, practise is really needed to be good at it on stage, I thought using my shadows only could be a symbolic idea of being behind the stage.

After I put the film together, I was struggling with the sound, because during the process of filming I had people talking, noises in the background, so I have muted everything in my film, but then with my film, I felt like it really needed some sound to go with all the movements.

I did not want to borrow some singer’s backing tracks, because I like the idea of having it as my own. Therefore, I thought it would have been a good idea to ask a friend of mine, who is the bassist of the band, Found From Within, to help me with the sound.

After telling him what I was looking for, he actually made the backing bass track to go with my film, therefore, the sound and the film worked perfectly for me.

 Also it was a great opportunity to work with different people in different areas.

 

 

 

Video made by me.  

Band name - Found From Within
Bass - Tom Fisher