First completed experimental piece completed in preparation for Critique 2.  The work exhibits a myriad of film techniques and edit styles that I’ve been experimenting with.  Here you can see the juxtaposition of both extremes of the time spectrum from super slow motion to hyper-real time lapse.  Altered tempo and intercutting enhances the varying speeds of the shots, and a supporting soundtrack helps drive the piece forward.  In addition to playing with slow motion and motion controlled time lapse, I also began experimenting with various distortion techniques that could be applied to 360 video footage.  Morphing between different spherical projection types provides some interesting effects, with the final shot evolving into the ‘little planet’ time lapse providing an omni view.  These types of manipulations have often been applied to still panoramas but can also be applied to video.  I’ve also become attracted to patterns that can reveal themselves through time manipulation, and I used a Droste technique on one of the shots to exaggerate this effect.

I also did some experimenting with an idea put forth in my first critique.  That is, placing a virtual camera within the 360 sphere and manipulating it in such a way as to replicate a ‘real’ camera moving through space.  Using this method I was able to isolate various pieces of the 360 time lapse and cut them together as separate shots in addition to creating some basic camera moves.

The montage of all of the various techniques combines into a unreality traversing time and the elements — fire, wind, water and earth.