Final Film Clip, Drift #2

Here is the final film clip that i decided upon. The main concept that gives the clip character is that you here a lot of sounds that are very familiar and resemble a number of fast food chains and restaurant sounds only you don't see the people making the sounds. I decided that the clip kind of takes you on a roller coaster. In some points it moves slow, then speeds up. I tried to make the brightness and certain transitions give you a feel like you don't know what is going on, and it's a little mysterious.

Making Progress, Drift #2

Here you can see the rocking chairs moving and what basically turned into the intro or first half of my clip. At this point i still wasn't sure how bright or dark i wanted to make the clip. I liked how the darker it was made it more mysterious. However, i eventually decided that i wanted the viewer to actually be able to see a little bit more of the detail of the suroundings. I also found that even when i made the clip brighter, the clip still has an ominous glow in cetain points.

Very Rough Clip, Drift #2

This is a very rough clip of the imagery that started my film clip off and gave me the inspiration for the rest of the 2:00 clip. This clip takes place outside my work at cracker barrel. Later i got the idea to go back and make the rocking chairs move with no one in them.

Production Strategy

The place i chose for my drift two is the area where i work. I work at cracker barrel which is on hwy. Q in Germantown about 5-10 min from my house. I chose this location, because I want to get some completely different sounds than on my first drift. I think the commercialized aspect of the area should lead to some different sounds than the suburbia area that i did in my first drift. The two places are related, because The first drift is around the area i live, and the second is around the area that i work.

The new drift strategy I am going to use is, going to the road, that my work is on, then i will walk to and through every commercial building that i can see. There is 1 resturant 6 fast food places, and two gas stations on that road.

The methods i will use to limit my image taking is only taking pictures wil standing still, and only taking video while walking or running.

Drift Assessment #1

One extremely bothersome thing that took place during my first drift, was the relentless swarm of mosquitoes that truly ate me alive. This was bad not only because I was itching for days, but my constant slapping them and itching made noises which I later had to do my best to delete in the studio.
One not very significant thing, but still very interesting or perhaps shocking thing that I encountered on my drift, was how funny random people can be when you stop to listen to them. One circumstance was when I encountered this family frog hunting. At one point a frog got out of the bucket and the father accidentally stepped on it only to have the mother yell out… “Ahh you killed it”. Another was when I heard the group of BMX’ers talking about if there was a challenge you had to complete before you were considered a professional.

Drift Assessment #2

Well it was very difficult to feel at ease and peaceful when mosquitoes were out like crazy. However, the closest I got was when I was doing things that I never actually take the time to do. The first was when I was walking down the side walk holding the microphones in the air, trying to get closer to the trees so I could hear the birds chirping as I walked down the side walk. The second was when I was taking in the sounds of morning doves by the keep near the end of my walk. The birds were soothing, but I didn’t really have much to look at so I watched the sun just starting to go down. That was very peaceful since I never sit and watch the sun go down.

Drift Assessment #3

The most surprising thing I found when it came to the sounds I took, was that there was so many sounds that we just don’t think about or train our minds to block out. Even when I was sitting there listening through the microphone and then I would go back and listen to it and I would hear lots of things I didn’t hear the first time. I also didn’t expect to enjoy going on the walk so much. I thought working with the computer programs would be fun, but I never really liked going on walks. However, once I got out there I found that it was fun to walk around and explore as oppose to what I usually do which is sit inside the house. The last realization I came to was that normal sounds I over look are interesting when I actually sit down analyze and listen to them.