Silent Film #3- Just Throw It Away

After reviewing our roughs with our TA, I wanted my films to have a progression, I decided I wanted to make a film about littering and our trash. I wanted to point out that it is still there, when we just throw it on the sidewalk, and that simply put, it should be in the garbage instead. It's simple. I collected the shots of the garbage can from my house, but all the other garbage is from the sidewalks all along the eastside. check it out!


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Silent Film #2-Rainwater Rush

After reviewing our rough sketches, I decided I needed more direction and progression in my final silent films. I decided to combine parts from both the sewer and runoff rough clips and create a progression that shows where the water comes from and how it slowly makes it to the sewer in the end. I wanted to point out that this water is important in bringing trash and junk just found on the streets into big piles near the sewer grates because trash is also a theme of my videos including the theme of surfaces affected by water. Check it out!


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Silent Film #1-What Happens To What We Throw Away?

After re-examining the material I had filmed and thinking about what direction I wanted to go with my work, I decided to go with the focus of: What Happens to our trash after we throw it away. Where does it go and what happens to it. I thought my cigarette idea went well with this theme/direction. SO check it out. It contains film from both the ashtray clip and the cigarette still rough sketches. I also want to point out that the use of the hand was to add a human element to the film. My ashtray rough clip just seemed very desolate, and I thought adding that element would make it less dismal.



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Rough Cut Sketch #5-The Ashtray and Puddle

I was nearing the end and getting kind of tired of photographing, but I came upon this ashtray near the Norris Health Center and this big brown puddle a few feet away. The concepts of trash(the cigarettes) and surfaces affected by water seemed to fit together quite nicely with this piece. It's probably my favorite piece because I really liked all the motion on the puddle and the iris effect through the ashtray/trashcan, just watch it!
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Rough Cut Sketch #4- The Case of the Egg

As I was randomly walking around photographing trash around campus, I came across an interesting subject: A cracked egg. I found it on the steps leading into the side entrance of the Union. It doesn't sound that interesting on paper, but the yolk was everywhere and it had been stepped on maybe a thousand times. It was a fun object to photograph because everyone walking into the Union thought I was crazy just sitting there photographing an egg.

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Rough Cut Sketch #3- Cigarette Still

I stopped home to eat and while doing so, thought that the piles of cigarette butts on our porch and balcony would be an interested topic to film. I was trying to think of what type of trash to photograph and I kept seeing cigarettes all over campus let alone our yard. It was an abundant visual resource. I didn't need to look far to find a cigarette to take a picture of. The clip might I add was a compilation of all still images taken and rearranged in Picasa and with that program made to move-slightly in a documentary-like style.



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Rough Cut Sketch #2- The Runoff

I was still entertained by all of this excess water everywhere, while I was looking for trash to photograph. I walked up a few blocks toward my house on Frederick and noticed a constant stream of water going to the sewer. I decided to film it, just for the heck of it. Later on in my walk, I was at the end of my diagonal adventure and I saw this stream over by the Klotsche Center on Downer and I thought it was cool how it formed its own little path. I decided ultimately to put the two together, the video seemed to flow nicely. Check it out!


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Rough Cut Sketch #1- The Sewer

As I was walking the neighborhood, it seemed like everything was melting and I decided to see where all of it disappeared to. The two themes of my pieces: Trash and surfaces affected by water both dealt with the sewer area. I took several shots of sewer drains around Cramer and Linnwood, in that general vicinity.



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Drift Strategy/Image Capturing Strategy

The Strategy I had while taking my second drift for Film 116 was to draw a diagonal line on a map and just look for interesting items along that path.

My two strategies for generating still and moving imagery was of only trash/junk and of surfaces that have been affected by water. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to document these two subjects when walking around campus and looking at the landscape and what was there. There was certainly lots of trash and junk and the snow was melting everywhere, so it was actually quite easy to decide what to document.

This is a map of everywhere I went on Drift 1 and on this venture, drift 2, which is the red line and its stops.


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