Location Tests Using Zoom Recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8wAjltKDDQ
This Audio was recorded on a Zoom mic on Tuesday the 22nd after the Sunday session where I made those technical errors. It turned out that recording using software on the laptop wasn’t going to suit the style of shooting we want to do with Penelope anyway. She needs a more intimate one on one style of recording using a device that can effectively capture a single sound in a small space. The GB software had too much echo and is set up to record multiple instruments but not at a distance like I have to record Penelope. The Zoom mic worked really well and it’s a small piece of equipment that doesn’t intimidate the subject they can almost forget it’s there. This post is to listen to the difference the zoom mic has from my last recordings but I thought I might as well combine some footage of locations and spaces because I’m thinking that my final piece might be the start of a feature film in which Penelope is the main character. Using shots to set up character, space and sound to suggest story and what the film is about, I could perhaps use my series of investigations kind of like the start and set up of a feature film. Just a thought. But it would help me be a little more specific about what exactly it is about Penelope that a story would be about if it were to exist at all. Let’s see how that idea develops.
I have used the same audio clip for both investigations but a series of different locations. The first series of shots were from Penelope’s street and surrounding houses. I shot them before one of our sessions last week. I like the more sombre mood, the light suggests that it is sunset and night is about to set in. I like this mood and think it suits Penelope’s aesthetic more than the series of shots set up in the second clip. These shots are much brighter and higher up, set in an apartment rather than a house on the street, with views of the city rather than the other houses directly in front of it. The shots are fairly over exposed I realise that and also that there isn’t much definition in the last two shots of the girls room with the piano in them. I didn’t set up any light except what was naturally available because I wasn’t looking at getting lighting right for this exercise. I was looking at the order of shots that might work to set up a location or place before introducing a ‘character’ or subject like Penelope.
The sound of the piano and this song Penelope composed in particular, gives a feeling like we are looking back on something that already happened in this location. The music has a particular reflective or sentimental quality like it’s suggesting the story has already happened. I like this quality and would like to set up the investigations as though this is a film about Penelope who has been through something and is about to recount her experience for us.
