Warm Snow - Final

This is the finalized version of my Trek 03 clips, stills, and sounds, which is entitled Warm Snow.

Rough Cut 3

This rough cut shows some blurred stills that will be used as an introduction.

Rough Cut 2

This second rough cut exemplifies a slow shot that is broken down into timed frame lengths, and then sped up to have a tempo.

Rough Cut 1

This rough cut contains two unrelated shots, but hopefully after editing, these can be combined.

Production Strategy

First of all, with the exception of filming a set of stoplights and traffic, most of the filming will be done near the 2400 block of North Humboldt Boulevard. However, production will not take place in the street, but between some of the alley's between Weil and Humboldt, as well as off of Meinecke. This area in Riverwest is teeming with detailed path's, houses, garages, lights, and most importantly, many qualities of ambient sound.

Opposite of my second trek, this video will consist of all lowlight imagery, which will be shot at dusk and late night. Also, I will be searching for sources of light to illuminate dark spaces, as well as lights that do not seem strong enough to illuminate much of an area. Finally, I am planning on using stoplights and traffic for a sense of low-light fast movement, faster than normally perceived.

The sound will be limited to a few ambient recordings, as well as some sort of pulsing tone, depending on what can be found.

Ten Questions

1. What color pallet can be achieved while shooting light in the dark?
2. How can contrast isolate light?
3. Can still imagery still give a "moving" feel or effect?
4. What type of sound is required for imagery that is in motion?
5. Can ambient sound provide an exciting enough background effect for active imagery?
6. How does weather affect focus and grain?
7. Does an image always have to be well lit to be effective?
8. What effect can a change in color have?
9. Does rapid light change have an effect on the camera?
10. How does height and angle change the effect of a given shot?

Trek Assessment 4

The most enjoyable experience of my trek's definitely occurred while outside in the snow. While recording the video clips for my final video, I was able to shoot a very short "scene" in which the camera is looking up from a very low angle and a light in the background showed the grain of the snow coming down, which at the time, was falling quite quickly. In that same spot, I was also able to record a light fixture that was blowing in the wind, which I was able to turn into the spot of light on a black background (through editing the still version). Finding this location, which I had used in earlier trek's, was great because I was able to get so much material from it, since I had also used it as part of an earlier trek in which I filmed a small garden. I was able to turn this same spot from a garden, into a semi-claustrophobic space that was under attack by a snowstorm.