Showing posts with label station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label station. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Station films

Visiting the Interactive at Sheffield preview at Sheffield Millenium Galleries and seeing video used in a gallery setting made me want to experiment with video myself. Here are my first attempts. It was very much inspired by this animation here by Julian Opie (take a look!), which I saw in the Millenium Galleries about two years ago.


I was just sat with the camera balanced on my knee trying to be inconspicuous again, hence it being a bit shaky (and on a kind of ridiculous slant). Maybe I should use a tripod in future. Then again I kind of like the shaky effect as I feel it makes it seem more organic and fluid. The other main problem I have is the limited quality that my camera can provide. However I could potentially borrow better equipment from photography if needed.


This one I think works well, if a bit too long. But I think it's important to have the train arriving and then leaving. It can also help to reflect the boredom and frustration sometimes felt when waiting around for trains to leave. I think it also reflects the character of the particular station well - quiet then madly busy, then becoming quiet again once the train has left.

I definitely want to look at taking some more videos.