Dirty Tape
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Another day of shooting in the studio lands us just short of 900 frames into the Anaclasis clip. This may seem like a lot of images. It makes up only 32 seconds of footage. For me, though, this is length enough to start seeing something happening, some flow, direction. Ideas are arriving from all poles now, so many that we will have a surplus come time to edit. And there is nothing subtle about these ideas, either. Mood dependent, this is not entirely a good thing, some are heavy handed, some must have been done before, some border on cliche. Many ideas have only personal relevance to the song - or personal relevance, period. It's okay though if no-one 'gets' it. It will look spectacular.
I've never concocted anything motional-visual. I must be making mistakes, things that will prove difficult to work around in the future. That's fine by me. Aside from things like frame rates and resolutions (and some file format guff) it's all covered; it is nothing more than many photos stacked together. And photos I can do.
Yesterday, as promised, the visual-ideas-abundant Nayt visited. He was not aware that he would be dressed in a vintage jacket and pin-stripes, then wrapped in 762 metres of (what we discovered was actually) quarter inch audio tape. He was, of course, fine with this; fine with two people he hardly knows leading him to their 'basement' to invade his space and restrict his movement against the whitest of backgrounds. Patience was high on the priority list yesterday; Nayt spent just under two hours standing in the pose (shown in the image with this post) while I ran from one side of the room to the other, a flash at each resting point. As if that wasn't enough: upon returning to the surface, filtering and stacking, it was apparent we did not have enough footage of the reel. He had no problem running back downstairs for another 125 shots of a spinning (and dirty) tape reel. He is an absolute legend.
We have discovered some interesting, and suitable, timing when the footage is run at half speed. Whether the timing is better, or whether it is the pull of having 64 seconds of footage I'm not too sure. I do know that editing the clip is going to be an all-consuming process, much like lining up the songs for the album.
I've never concocted anything motional-visual. I must be making mistakes, things that will prove difficult to work around in the future. That's fine by me. Aside from things like frame rates and resolutions (and some file format guff) it's all covered; it is nothing more than many photos stacked together. And photos I can do.
Yesterday, as promised, the visual-ideas-abundant Nayt visited. He was not aware that he would be dressed in a vintage jacket and pin-stripes, then wrapped in 762 metres of (what we discovered was actually) quarter inch audio tape. He was, of course, fine with this; fine with two people he hardly knows leading him to their 'basement' to invade his space and restrict his movement against the whitest of backgrounds. Patience was high on the priority list yesterday; Nayt spent just under two hours standing in the pose (shown in the image with this post) while I ran from one side of the room to the other, a flash at each resting point. As if that wasn't enough: upon returning to the surface, filtering and stacking, it was apparent we did not have enough footage of the reel. He had no problem running back downstairs for another 125 shots of a spinning (and dirty) tape reel. He is an absolute legend.We have discovered some interesting, and suitable, timing when the footage is run at half speed. Whether the timing is better, or whether it is the pull of having 64 seconds of footage I'm not too sure. I do know that editing the clip is going to be an all-consuming process, much like lining up the songs for the album.
