I’m just in the edit suit, experimenting with the material I have gathered so far, working mostly with the abstract footage I have shot of buildings and gardens, Penelope’s piano playing and voice recordings. I’m noticing a shot will either speak or it wont. This doesn’t mean that when I add audio to it, that it doesn’t work, however I’m looking for a shot to say something without any audio. My original purpose was to let something exist and see what moods or feelings naturally come from it and develop more content informed by that. When looking at places and arranging abstract footage to make or organise meaning, how does this differ from arranging subjects or characters? In these series of short investigations, what has the most meaning? I feel compelled to structure the shots as though they are telling a story but that’s my natural inclination to want to entertain because I have been bought up on entertaining plot and a Hollywood story line. But to allow something to exist as it is and layer it with meaning using Penelope’s music is a good exercise. I’m also looking at how audio evokes different meaning with the same image.

Today in class we watched a minute or so of each other’s work. Everyone seems to have a very different project exploring lots of different things and be in slightly different places with their concepts and execution. I feel like the fact that I shot a lot of footage on my IPhone has given me obviously more footage to use and experiment with. This week I’m focusing all my investigations on editing and using premiere pro to engage technically with the material I have, and then late next week I will decide what more I want to shoot and how, shoot and gather what I want, and return to the edit suit to make something that is hopefully in line with what seems like two intentions; to create a media portrait that expresses Penelope and that also expresses something about my first experience as a film maker.