Final Clip - A Walk Through The Park

Run Time: 2 Minutes, 21 Seconds















My final clip is a combination of the three rough clips, but I decided to go away from the theme of the first two clips and make a movie on what I did and that was walk through the park.

Rough Clip #3

Run Time: 1 Minute, 19 Seconds















This is a continuation of the first two clips in a sense, however it is based more so on the theme of my final clip, "A Walk Through The Park."

Rough Clip #2

Run Time: 1 Minute, 34 Seconds















This is the middle section of my three part piece. It starts off slow like the first, keeps with the theme, and again sets up the final clip. I tried to use fragmentation a lot in this clip because in reality it takes about 5 minutes to walk the actual route that the video follows, at that speed.

Rough Clip #1

Run Time: 1 Minute, 15 Seconds















This is my first rough clip and the beginning of three that will go together to make my final movie. I used some of the sounds I captured to try and make an ominous feel that leads into my next two clips.

Production Strategy

The place that I plan to explore more in depth on this trek is the parking lot and pond area of Calhoun Park. It is about 100x100 yards and should help me in using more man-made examples to contradict the images of nature that I am also bound to see. The sounds that I will be able to record should also be able to contradict the images of nature as they are more metallic and “fake.” The only strategy that I am going to try and follow in this trek as I am attempting to form a broad narrative will be fragmentation. I think this will be the best in helping me combine my ideas. The way I plan to limit my sound capturing is by only capturing man-made sounds, whether from trash, wind coming off a structure, or other unbeknownst ideas.

Ten Questions for Trek03

1. Can I use my recorded material to create more of a narrative?

2. Can I use more man-made structures in my visual recordings?

3. How can I make my recordings reflect the images in a meaningful way?

4. How can I still use nature as a tool in the narrative?

5. Is there anywhere that I can capture a more enclosed sound?

6. Is there anywhere that I can capture a darker image?

7. Is there anywhere that I can look and see only man-made structures?

8. Is there anything harmful to the park present?

9. Can I use myself as a way to push along my ideas?

10. How can I use fragmentation to my advantage?

Trek Assessment #4

Describe your favorite experience, situation, place, or recollection from either of your Treks. Be specific about what happened, how you felt, how you reacted, and why you think this particular experience affected you so much.

I think that the experience that I remember the most was on my second trek. I was walking through the trails at Calhoun Park and I figured I was almost done collecting pictures, but I realized that I didn’t have enough material to form 5 diverse clips. I stopped to look through the pictures that I had taken just to confirm my belief. It turned out that I was correct. At this point I only had pictures of single leaves that I planned to make into my eventual “Rebirth of a Leaf” clip, and the only other idea that I had was to make a clip of the growth of a tree, which would also use a picture of a dead tree at the end. I figured I would use the same idea as the leaf video and try to get stills with a solid color, but with an entire tree. Just as I looked up to think of where I could find good pictures, there were 3 distinct colored trees, each by themselves, all of which worked perfectly into my idea and jump started my enthusiasm into the idea.