Assignment 3 Video: Contrasting Paths

In my piece, I wanted to focus on capturing scenes that are mostly apart of my everyday life. Since I do not have a car, for much of my piece, I incorporated me walking to the grocery store as well as to the school. Many of my clips are from the nature I come across throughout my walks. On nice days when I walk to school I find the walk very nature filled, beautiful, and calming. However, when I walk to, as well as in Meijer, the scene is loud and busy. Throughout my piece I went back and forth between the loudness and busyness and the quietness and calmness of two paths. Both of these different paths are very near each other, however, the difference in them is drastic. I incorporated myself walking throughout the piece to signify the different paths I take on a weekly basis. My shadow walking is constant part of my piece whether I'm walking by the trees in the wind or cars passing by. While capturing these videos for my project, I tried to capture them in different points of view than what I see every day. For example with the shopping cart clip, I took the video from inside the cart's point of view rather than my own. Also in the moving cars scene, I wanted to emphasize how busy the road was by making it busier, therefore spinning the frame. However, with the simple nature scenes, I kept the scene like it was and let the wind become the simple motion. Also, while incorporating sounds, I made sure to make the busier scenes louder while turning the volume down on the quieter scenes to emphasize their difference. Every day people travel whether it is to the grocery store or on a walk through the park. However, most people do not realize how different two paths could be while being relatively close in distance.