Week 12 Crisis

It’s week 12.

Since it doesn’t seem like I will be able to schedule another filming with the participants before the end of the semester, I will have to look for other ways of exploring montage.

Some things that I associate with montages: manipulation of time, passing of time, non-sequential images, abrupt changes, eclectic, archival/found footage, discontinuity…

I think it might be interesting if I were to parody Glen Gould’s documentary. Instead of however many short stories his documentary had, I could do something like 22 takes of pianist Priscilla Luu (she’s the one who provided me with the frenetic music in my ‘frictional experiment’). Priscilla is a friend who I’ve known for many years now, and there are some ‘contrasting’ aspects to her which could provide that ‘shock’ at each cut. It’s late in the game to be starting something now, but at least I will have this idea mentally saved for next time.

Also, since I hadn’t colour corrected Nenad’s and Vivian’s videos I went back to them and tried colour grading them. But I’m not sure if it was for the better or worse. With Vivian’s video, it was a bit more straightforward because I think the lighting was more consistent, and even the colour scheme of her shots was easier to work with. In comparison, the colours present in Nenad’s shots were all over place and the exposure as well, so made it harder to maintain a similar look for each shot.

In one of Nenad’s shots, he was overexposed and I tried to tone it down by bringing the brightness down but it didn’t turn out as well as I wanted. Underexposed shots can pass as looking stylish, but when they are overexposed it’s hard on the eyes. Now I have a constant fear of overexposure.

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