Silent Video #3

The Nature of Light.

Silent Video #2

Setttling Shoes.

Silent Video #1

Squirrel. Feeder. Final.

Rough Cut Sketch #5

Empty Light.

My favorite of the rough clips was probably the most repetitive to shoot. A simple street light caught my eye in the manner that it showed up through the camera lens, so I decided to take several shots of it from numerous angles and ended up creating a clip that has an overt broken rhythm to it that I often find myself enjoying. It's almost jarring, the way the clip moves.

Rough Cut Sketch #4

Settled Shoes. Fallen Tree. Full Moon.

Walking through a woods, I noticed a fallen tree that stil had leaves on it, yet there were trees around it still standing that had lost their leaves. I decided to go with the linear shots to emphasize its length, and later that evening after we concluded my walk, I turned around and saw that my two friends and I had set our shoes up perfectly after we had gotten back into the house. This reminded me of a shadow picture that I had taken by accident, trying to get a picture of a stream that turned out to be too static and shallow for me to capture, not to mention that it was connected to a sewer and I was unable to get close enough without falling in. This one holds a more personal meaning, one that I am finding myself having a hard time explaining, but that I can feel within. Perhaps it will invoke a similar, or perhaps, different feeling into a more detached viewer.

Rough Cut Sketch #3

Squirrel. Bird Feeder.

That evening, I stumbled across a dead squirrel. It was interesting to note so much death in one day, far more than I can recall noticing, with the prelude to winter. I juxtaposed this squirrel with the bird feeder, that which gives life to a different animal, connecting this squirrel to the two birds that I had seen earlier.

Rough Cut Sketch #2

Graveyard.
Earlier in the day there had been an impressive amount of birds flocking around. Later, we found two that had flown directly into a window, killing themselves. Here we have a similar but opposite relationship between plant and animal life than the previous rough sketch. It is interesting to see that this coniferous tree, impervious to the change of seasons, would become the resting place for birds who became restless with the coming of fall.