Video Shoot and Installation

Well it's been a long time since my last post so I hope you don't mind sitting down for a while. The last time I wrote about the class my group was planning on shooting some footage during the upcoming weekend, which we did. We ended up shooting an entire role on the following Sunday using James' super 8 camera after realizing the one we had checked out was a piece of junk that was never disposed of by Tony. The group decided that Travis and I should appear in the video which was both fun and tedious. None of us had any extensive or prior experience with shooting on super 8 which made for a lot of waiting and deliberation before shooting any given shot. The hardest shot we accomplished was a tracking shot of Travis running down Front St. in his monster costume. We ended up trying it about two or three times before we finally got it. Then we got up on Monday morning to shoot a scene where Travis takes my shirt and a bunch other shots of Travis as the monster. Wednesday we shot the final roll with the band and also more monster stuff and ended finishing a week before the footage was due. We had an exposure issue that night because the light meter in the camera was giving us a different reading than the split. We ultimately made the wrong decision by going with the split which was unfortunate and from then on we hoped that the footage wouldn't be too underexposed.


For the final project we have decided to try VJing which is something that neither one of us has done before. We are still discussing everything that we want to do with it so I have nothing more to report other than that. We'll make it a surprise.