Ollie Tristram

No Time, No Space

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By Ollie Tristram, Craig Thomas, Jason Bickers and Beth O’ Connell

Documentary

08-11-2007

Today we booked out a camera and intended to film our project. We had discussed prior to this what we we’re going to do and Jason had the idea to film a single shot over a long period and speed it up (known as time-lapse photography) to fit the 1 to 2 minute time requirement. This way everything would look frantic and our intentions of filming from the bridge over Parliament Street at all the traffic and pedestrians was a good way of representing a bustling city.
However, our plan of getting around about an hours footage during sunset didn’t go quite so well as the camera was due back to the store at 4.30pm with sunset being around 3.30-5.30pm. We set up and began recording around 3.55pm and finished roughly 4.15pm, obviously only a third of our intended time. With this in mind we are planning to review the recording and test out the speeding up effect on Tuesday. If the footage is still what we had in mind then excellent, otherwise we plan on doing a re-shoot next Thursday.

14-11-2007

I began to edit the footage we had at home to see what it would look like speeded up. I did this by 1300% to make the video around 1 minute 40 seconds long. I showed it to the group and we are all satisfied with the footage, however there are some reflections in the window we shot through.
I cut the clip so I could edit a 10 second slice with some effects, as rendering would be quicker this way. At the end, the effects I had used were altering the brightness, contrast and saturation, adding the ghosting effect, adding the zoom blur effect, and adding a lighting effect with a yellow tint. It quite dramatically improved the overall visuals by giving it a much more ambient feel. It also diminished the reflections somewhat.
Also, I began work on the background music with a friend, which is a downtempo trip-hop tune. It is farily minor, which adds to the narrative of a depressing city lifestyle.

20-11-07

We have rearranged our ideas, and now that the video editing is complete with use of Ghost trials, lighting effects and radial blurs, we have decided to give the project a new theme; greater intelligences watching over us. This way the narrative is more focused and the music, which I have now finished, always connects better with the imagery onscreen.

29-11-07

The project is complete. The new narrative works well with the visuals and music. The ‘overuse’ of effects of the video symbolises the vision of the aliens watching over us. The time-lapse aspect of the project works well with this because when everything is moving so fast, and is a blur, it represents how insignificant one day of one person’s life is out of the history of the rest of the World.
Our idea of having a speech or narration over the top of the visuals and music works very well as it gives depth and meaning to the project. It gives it a point, which is one thing we thought was a neccessity for the assignment.
I had a few problems exporting the video, and one which i can’t understand or get rid of is the small portion of the video that is blacked out at the bottom. But it goes fairly unnoticed.

I thought this was a really cool stop-motion and I might have to steal some ideas in the future.


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