Now I have many years of media experience with shooting all kinds of footage but I felt like I could use some professional help and Robert was more than willing to help me out.
I have explained my idea to him and we have constantly been converging with each other through Facebook and over the phone, coming up with ideas of the visuals that could be used in the films that will be shown once interaction is made with my sculpture.
My goal is to make a minimum of 20 short clips, any more than that is a bonus. I feel as long as I can demonstrate my idea and how it works well than that is an accomplishment for me because with such little time to complete all the ideas I have in mind, it may be too ambitious to do all the visuals I think of.
Obviously if I had longer to complete this and not other projects for other modules to worry about then I would go all out and create as much as possible. However I have to think realistically, therefore not all my ideas will be used.
I want visuals that are going to display very mundane things that we all carry out/do in our lives, and at the same time I want there to be hints of very significant moments or what people see as significant, but I want them to be very subtle.
Like I've stated before I want these visuals to portrait a very different aspect to how a person's life may flash before their eyes.
Below is a list of possible ideas me and Robert have discussed over the past couple of weeks.
1) Putting toothpaste onto a brush
2) Laying some flowers on a grave
3) Being picked up from the cot
4) Slamming hands on steering wheel as car doesn't start.
5) Woman's hands undoing mans belt
6) Coughing up blood onto hands
7) Opening a 60th birthday card (or wedding/ baby shower etc)
Falling down stairs9) Filling in a form for a funeral home process
10) Taking first steps
11) Jogging through park
12) Getting down on one knee to propose
13) Pouring wine into a glass at sunset
14) Putting mail into the mail box
15) Tying shoelaces
16) Receiving keys for first car
17) Looking at window, looking at hands against light
18) Flicking through a property magazine
19) Hiking through somewhere nice
20) Putting a toy in the toilet
21) Looking inside a CD cover, old folks album choice
22) Putting your degree diploma on the wall.
23) Looking for the TV remote in the coach.
24) Throwing up into toilet (tastefully done)
25) Stroking a cat
26) Buying a newspaper
27) Getting money out of the ATM
28) Flushing the toilet
29) Spraying deodorant
30) Looking at a message on phone that says 'my water has broke'
31)CPR being administered
Now Robert has all his own camera equipment which means I don't have to worry about availability.
We have been meeting up when ever we get the chance to start shooting some of the footage. Everything we have been shooting has been done with a shoulder camera mount or even just an ordinary tripod fixed in a certain position to create that illusion of the camera being from the perspective of a person.
We have kept actors minimal so that it doesn't cause any interruption with the filming process. We don't want there being any delays due to actors pulling out or there being no available actors to participate. Therefore myself, Robert and his girlfriend Olga have been the only ones featuring in the videos.
Here is a link to my Youtube channel where I have upload all the clips we have shot thus far. Scroll down and you will find them. They are all entitled "Video Project" and then the name of what they depict in the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/user/c0wb0iHissayJay?feature=mhee
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