Experimental Filming Day 1

Today we began filming for our experimental film. We have all brain-stormed what we would like to explore with our individual films and I am taking the direction of looking at patterns within the city, specifically the STOP/ GO flow that seems to be present in many assumed systems within the city.

We have been filming as a team of 4 but are keeping our footage separate so that we will have a greater amount of variation between our 4 group films. We have however been discussing using a certain sample of universal footage to increase the ties between our four sub-themes.

Filming has been interesting so far, we have had a multitude of problems on this first day including webcam brightness issues, overwriting footage and an increasing unsteadiness in the rotating camera on the pivot. Being in the experimental genre these things haven't been too badly hindering we have just adapted and continued and are happy with the certain level of randomness that has been achieved by this.



I would however like to encourage an increase in public interaction and participation so I am planning to create a sign or some props that make it clearer to the public that we are open to their participation in our film making process. Currently we have a lot of people staring but a lot very few interacting. I have noticed though that when you do manage to get one person engaged then the people around increases exponentially.

Tomorrow I want to do a lot more planned filming at locations and timings of prior choosing. This way the film will have a little more continuity than today's wandering.