I didn’t change a ton about the overall idea and foundation of my project from the project prep. I changed the order of the clips and I added an extra short clip onto the end to try to flesh out a sort of “story.” The reason I have “story” in quotes is because it’s a very simple story, and of course that story is just the story of how my dog likes to be the center of attention in every clip. I would’ve put it a clip where my dog didn’t interrupt so I could switch things up a bit but out of the 3 videos I took, my dog went and drank some water directly in frame every time.
I think there’s some interesting themes at play within the clips that I got, but I don’t know how I would turn the clips I have into a story with those themes in mind. What I noticed in the clips was a contrast between man and nature and how man captures nature. Each clip, while attempting to capture nature and its sounds, is framed by human creations. You can see my hand and a dog leash briefly in the first clip. There is a dog in each video who, while originally comes from nature, obviously doesn’t come from nature (he wears a collar) (also he’s part poodle). In the second clip, my phone is propped up by a bridge, which you might be able to hear by some various dog footsteps on (though I think I cut all of them out). And last but not least I overlayed piano music on top of the video clips. Anyways there’s some interesting ideas there but I’m not smart enough to figure out how those can be told through a 3 minute soundscape clip.
