Filming Complete

Blair and I spent the week finishing the filming for our major work. We decided to film on campus as we thought the public would be more understanding and not take our installation as such an offence.

We continued to work with busy pathways as a way to make people respond to the objects we were displaying. The first footage we caught that week was a success, there were many people passing through the coffee cups we displayed as an installation over the pathway. Many intrigued participants also stopped to ask what we were doing and what the work represented.

We then found a location where we were able to get footage from above and therefore gain another perspective of peoples responses. This time we decided to shoot plastic bags  that contained weights that were randomly placed underneath a balcony. Here people stared, ignored as well as kicked the bags to seek what was inside them. Overall, this location gave us the effect we desired.

For our final location we decided to shoot on the esplanade in Cronulla during the busy hours of the morning. This was the only location out of all that no one from the public stopped to ask what we were doing and why the objects were randomly placed on the ground. People completely ignored the glass bottles on the ground which was a surprise as the last time we shot in Cronulla every single one of the objects we placed in the frame was picked up by the public.

The plan now is to edit the film together. My job is to edit the film while blair creates the sound. I’d like to condense each location to about 40 seconds, after this I plan to fade to black for approximately 5 seconds where I will provide a statistic in text on screen while Blairs sound plays over. We have 5 locations to put together so our film should come to about 5 minutes all up.