Video Haiku

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Here is a link for our video Haiku that for some reason is not showing up on my blog. I hope it works.

Anyways, this project was interesting in that it was reactive and spontaneous. I didn't know what to expect. Polina, Chris, and I, worked together and shot different shots reacting from the previous person's take. I think Chris started. He took a shot of the boots coming. And then Polina and I each took shots of traffic coming and going from the Hunter walkways over Lexington avenue. Then more shots of the boots coming and going, and of traffic coming and going. We then tried to add in shots of the traffic lights, to begin and end the film. Green to start. Yellow in the middle. Red to stop the film at the end.

I liked combining our creative ideas and not communicating them through words but through the camera. This was my first true taste of using a video camera to create a narrative and was an interesting way to start.

I learned that film and the hand of the director or camera person is as much as creative process as writing or painting. The camera is the brush or pencil, and instead of paper, the film, or digital information is the medium that stores the creative ideas.