It's just a chair
The concept behind our experimental film was that of perception; in other words, we were attempting to express how different things could be perceived in different ways. With this in mind, we decided to use a combination of still shots and video, cemented together to give the illusion of a moving image using cross dissolves.
As a group, we wandered around the college trying to find items, pictures or scenes in which we could include - this was my role in the group. An example of one of our shots would be a close-up moving image of a painting in one of the corridors. The part we captured was a collection of rust which we decided looked like a mountain range if you removed the rest of the painting. We decided to use a moving image so as to make it seem the camera was in fact panning a mountain range, not a painting.
Another example would be a knot in some wood that looked like an eye. This not only deceives the audience, but also relates to the idea of perception: our eyes are vital in seeing, and often deceive what we see.
However, whilst we were editing our film, we experienced problems, mostly due to how slow the computer was in processing our actions. Also, due to time constraints and a limited location, it became exceedingly difficult to find scenes that pertained to the topic.
Overall, I fell that, in spite of the problems we came across during the entire project, we worked well as a unit, and we did our best to create an experimental film within the time allowed.
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