Walk

 

         When trying to decide on what to do for this study, which was supposed to be a sixty second shot with no editing, I ran into some bumps. What can you shoot for sixty seconds that will captivate your audience and be something interesting? These were questions I was struggling with while making this video. It occurred to me to shoot “Walk” while I surprisingly was...walking. It's something that is done everyday almost subconsciously so this made me want to look into it more. I'm a fast paced walker and usually just look down while I walk but being lost in my thoughts I never really pay attention to where my feet are being planted other than to avoid holes and such. After the process of shooting this, I learned that trying to keep a camera phone steady enough while walking and trying to look down was quite a daunting task. The video was grainy and the quality was very low which worried me at the beginning, but as I watched it more and presented it to the class it actually gives it kind of a nice quality. The blurriness of it helps with the idea of walking since most of us don’t really remember all the steps we take. The quality of my camera phone has given me some incentive to do more studies and work with the overall process of the low quality video.

 

Brittany Smith "Walk"

Date: February 15, 2011

Running Time: 1' 09"

New Media: Video

Spring 2011