4/27

Today I had an individual crit on my progress with my research video. My topic is water. One of my original ideas was to somehow express how much water humans waste. I was going to show a drippy sink and then after a few minutes, zoom in to show how much water had collected in the sink. However, after Vanessa showed us Andy Warhol's "Empire" piece, I used that as influence. My video now consisted of a beautiful, well lit, and well focused shot of a sink. It shows the sink dripping for several minutes, and the drips are very slow, and only continue to get slower as time progresses. I also extracted the sound because I thought it was cool how even though there was no sound, you can almost hear each drip. When Anne looked at my piece she helped me to explore ways to push it a little more. We talked about what I was trying to express and the emotions like boredom, frustration, and being in the zone. I thought that maybe a few ways to push the idea of wasting water were to plug up the faucet with my finger at the end of the piece, or to softly introduce a background noise and then at the end have a loud sound of the faucet turning off. I plan to experiment with the audio some more before our final crit next week.