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Suggested to me by You Tube

A mix of animated lines and poetry with video and news items about war etc.
Quite difficult to understand any narrative progression. But evocative.

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My second experiment was filmed walking along the houses in Shingle Street from the Martello Tower Car Park towards the Beach Car Park on a sunny but still windy day. The predominant impressions I had were:

sound of skylarks on the wind

play of sun, shadows and reflections on the walls of often empty houses (reminiscent of Maya Deren)

desert-like shingle landscape with tall brown remains of the giant mullein plants that in summer had covered the whole are with yellow.

I edited the audio in Audition, cutting the soundwave to significantly reduce the wind and amplify the skylarks to the level I perceived them at. I left in the clicks and walking that signified my voyeur presence. And added wave sounds that were actually too far away to be heard at low tide when the video was shot.

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My first experiment was filmed on the Coast Path walking North from the Beach Car Park towards Orford. The predominant impressions I had were:

loneliness/solitude (which?) in the vast space with the huge sky and flat landscape with one isolated (holiday) cottage and the separate individuals and couples walking, enjoying the solitude (though there were more such people than I had seen before)

wind - this blew my gimbal repeatedly 180 degrees and made smooth recording very difficult. But something I could maybe experiment with as an 'experiential effect

geese gathering for winter migration and flying away

autumn reeds and reflections

uneven footpath with many holes and needing to watch carefully where I was walking.

The overall effect I wanted to portray was one of vastness, enjoyment of space and solitude after working from home, and experience of walking in this environment. I kept the wind noise, but toned it down a bit in Audition.

The black and white version really abstracts the bleakness, space and solitude. I really like the overall feel of the video and some of the shots and overlays eg the reed beds, geese and clothes on the washing line. I also do not mind some of the shakiness.

The Gold Rush LUT is a very different feel of the glow of colours at sunset - something that was 'real' when the sun comes out but not captured by the iPhone algorithm. But going forward - if I want 'realism' - I need to make detailed notes on location about my experience of colours and how they change with changes in light and sky, and apply the LUT in a more nuanced way.

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Walking with Skylarks: rough cut faded blue

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Walking with Skylarks: rough cut faded blue

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This softens the eerie feel to something more nostalgic and old style.

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Walking with Skylarks: rough cut blue tint

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Walking with Skylarks: rough cut blue tint

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This shows the blue sky, but has a sort of ominous feel from the tinted colours. The LUT also has a sharpening effect with vignette which both add to the more eerie impression.

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Shingle Street: Walking with Skylarks: rough cut colour

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Shingle Street: Walking with Skylarks: rough cut colour

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I think black and white is more evocative in highlighting the bleakness and loneliness.

Black and white adjustment layer in Premiere Lumetri Effects. I experimented with many different black and white contrast settings from Film Noir and dramatic to flat and muted. Also blue and sepia toning.

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An edited version from original footage shot with an iPhone ProMax 12 mounted on a Hohem gimbal. This was my first attempt with video using this equipment, so a learning process.

The predominant impressions I had were:

loneliness/solitude (which?) in the vast space with the huge sky and flat landscape with one isolated (holiday) cottage and the separate individuals and couples walking, enjoying the solitude (though there were more such people than I had seen before)

wind - this blew my gimbal repeatedly 180 degrees and made smooth recording very difficult. But something I could maybe experiment with as an 'experiential effect

geese gathering for winter migration and flying away

autumn reeds and reflections

uneven footpath with many holes and needing to watch carefully where I was walking.

The overall effect I wanted to portray was one of vastness, enjoyment of space and solitude after working from home, and experience of walking in this environment. I kept the wind noise, but toned it down a bit in Audition.

I really like the overall feel of the video and some of the shots and overlays eg the reed beds, geese and clothes on the washing line. I also do not mind some of the shakiness of the walking - this is an experiential impression, not trying to be a professional wildlife video. But I need to make editorial decisions and cut out subjects moving back and forth in a confusing and seasick fashion.

It is important also that this footage is not some 'real truth' about colours and perspectives. Colours are reproduced using the specific iPhone algorithm. And the perspectives are also altered depending on which lens is used to capture detail and impressions from near, far and medium distance objects.

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Although black and white captures the bleakness, The whole area goes golden in the autumn sunset. Much more vivid than the colour footage with the algorithm out of the camera.

A more gritty, colour LUT. I really like the colours of the sunset and light on the house at the end. But this clip would be more like reality if the colour saturation was edited to be lower when the sky is cloudy.

I need to observe very closely how the colours change as I perceive, and also experience them, if I want to produce a colour video that is truly expressive of my impressions of the place.

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Shingle Street: Walking with Skylarks - Black and White

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Shingle Street: Walking with Skylarks - Black and White