more video tasks this week. i don’t want to say that it was difficult, but it wasn’t easy. somehow, no matter how simple these tasks seem at first glance, they really aren’t. so many different things and layers to think about, just to make a six send video. what do I include? what don’t i include? what angle? do i cut between shots? if so, for how long and how many cuts? do i show the whole thing or just a part? should there be good lighting?

but this week, the most difficult question for me was…. what constitutes fast and what constitutes slow? i mean, i know a car travelling at 100 km/h is fast and a snail is slow. but i wasn’t really in the mood to go stand on a bridge above the freeway, nor go find a snail that was actually moving. and even if said snail was moving, he probably wouldn’t move far enough in the 6 seconds for it to even seem like he (or she. do snails have a gender?) was moving at all. so, i conclude, i have to go somewhere in between a speeding car and a lazy snail. where does that leave me? it felt that no matter what i was filming, if i was going for a slow movement, it looked fast. but if i thought the object was fast moving, it seemed really slow.

for me this whole task was just about finding new objects and testing speeds and cutting and angles. it made it an interesting task to complete because i had to think about the stuff around me in new ways to how i’d looked at or used them before. although, anyone who follows me on vine probably thinks i’m insane. but that’s another story. i am however, excited to not only see how these all fit together with my others once i turn them into a sketch film, but also to see what the others in my class do, because last week everyones different videos were so very different and it will give me an all new perspective and new ideas on how to use speed in future filming.