as comments as usual – post to your blog AND as text
200 words on where you would show the footage you have already shot (ie sainsburys etc) and why – think about the audience – who and why
as comments as usual – post to your blog AND as text
200 words on where you would show the footage you have already shot (ie sainsburys etc) and why – think about the audience – who and why
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http://minhb.com/blog/?p=332
http://k1ryu.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/my-footage/
First off, the most obvious place to show the footage would of be on the internet. It really depends on what the footage is, and perhaps you would want to share some footage of your friends backsides to the rest of the world. There are a lot of people out there that would actually enjoy watching the footage, which quite frankly is just creepy and weird.
Following someone or a group of people walking down a street is not exactly interesting… unless the camera was purely aimed at their backsides like ours were. It was purely an accident that you get to see Stefi’s and Nerissa’s backsides for a whole 5 minutes, but the question still remains as to where you would want to show this footage. Either you could spread it around on the internet for all the perverts out there, or you could make it interesting by turning it into a music video, which would actually have a purpose…
and Josh, how can you say the footage didnt turn out the way you wanted, it was pure gold! What have you done with the footage by the way? Oh, it’s on YouTube already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trZnE34_fgw
The footage recorded follows an unsuspected individual in public space for five minutes. Although the web is the easier and most accessible location to present the footage, I decided to present it in a physical public space where its almost unavoidable and will directly reach the target audience; the public in a public space.
The footage will be presented repeatedly as large projections on multiple buildings along a busy shopping street [such as London' Oxford street] at rush hour just after sunset, when the projections can be viewable. By doing so it allows the audience to question the existence of privacy in a public space – while they themselves are in a public space. The use of projectors further illustrates the idea that modern digital media results to loss of intimacy.
My video would be shown in an art gallery with 5 other videos on separate screens all shot on camera phones secretly following someone in 6 different superstores and will follow people like the one me and Jacques filmed in Sainsbury’s but will follow the security guards instead. They would all have their own stories to tell but put them together they would tell 1 big story. I quite like The naughtiness of the film we took, the guy we were filming had no idea that we were filming him and nether did the security guards because we weren’t allowed to be filming in there, as Jacques found out as he nearly got thrown out. The films would be aimed at an audience that enjoyed going against the grain fighting the system; the people we put in place to secure our world aren’t doing their job.
I think an ideal place to show videos like the ones we produced earlier would be a busy public space, such as town square or outisde a supermarket. I would play the video on large screens without sound and without any explaintions. The reasons for showing the videos this way is that everyone, given the oppertunity, is intreseted in watching people. By creating it in a public space I am giving them the oppertunity to snoop on people without getting caught.
I left out an explanation and any sound as this creates a mystery about the piece and it also removes the personality from the subjects in the video, so that the viewe feels less like an unwanted viewer.
By placing it in such a public open space I will have no power over the choice of audiance the piece recives, I belive that this is important to work in which the subjects were a random collective, thus the audiance should reflect this.