Freedom and Liberty- Filming and Editing

Continuing with developing ideas, I looked at the work of Richard long, who creates art by walking in landscapes as well as using his surroundings to create his art. I myself went out to a local nature reserve near my home. A place I have been visiting for over 10 years, for me this is a personal place where I can experience nature and feel free. I captured a lot of footage of my walk around the nature reserve to be used in my film.

Pipilotti Rist- Film (projection)

• My aim for this was to use the footage and combine it with footage found on the internet of nature from around that world, that I am unable to get hold of. 

• As well as this my plan was to project my footage onto buildings/ manmade objects, in doing so juxtaposing the two. 

As  research for my projections I looked at the work of Pipilotti Rist, Tacita Dean and Jane and Louise Wilson.  

I particularly like the idea of projections as they reveal film in a completely different way, rather than from just watching it from a TV or laptop screen. By using a projection, I wanted to experiment with the colours used in my film.                              

Editing               

 To produce my film I used iMovie. The main focus of my film was overlaying my filming with clips of nature from around the world, taken from the internet. I wanted to show a contrast with my experience of nature and nature that I am not familiar with. 

To overlay my clips, I placed one on top of another. Using the adjust tool I increased the colour. I used the opacity bar to make one clip transparent so both were visible.