1. Concept/ Subject
For my Final Project I am interested in shooting multiple Time Lapses around the city capturing a narrative. I will try to portray how life still goes on during a pandemic. Highlighting the subtle differences in our everyday lives. (ie. lines outside grocery stores, people social distancing in parks with masks on, etc. But mostly people queued up in lines interests me for this project.
2. Technical Approach (Input)
I plan on using my Canon 5D Mark IV with my 70-200mm lens on a tripod so I can capture everything from a safe distance. I plan on being locked on to a similar focal length for each Time Lapse for a similar look. I intend to make these scenes feel like the viewer is there watching this happen right before their eyes which was similar to our PoV assignment. I will be shooting in different lighting conditions/ places so I will need to really focus on my camera settings to give a similar feel for each set of images.
3. Technical approach and specs: (output)
This is the part where I definitely need help. I think the best way to present this would be either Youtube or Vimeo. Getting it there will take some time and work but I really am interested in making this concept into a reality. I have the programs to edit so hopefully this will work out. (getting it up on a video streaming platform is easy, the editing will be the more challenging and time consuming process but I am up for the challenge).
Aaron, super cool idea! Is this also something you could do on TikTok? I think especially during this time it will be interesting to see will more people be out because of the Holidays? Or less because people are getting afraid to go out? It’ll be interesting to see what you capture – this is making me think!
Aaron, I LOVE this idea. Seeing lines, masks and all the signs to keep 6ft away still feels so foreign even though we’ve been living with it for almost a year… I know you will capture it beautifully and I look forward to seeing it.
If you want to see a really long line, you should go to Ikea ha!
I think this is a pretty interesting idea. The lines outside businesses and healthcare facilities feel just as bizarre to me as they did earlier this year. My polish coworker related this phenomenon to her parents’ stories of growing up in soviet Poland…apparently back then if you saw a line, you’d just get in it without necessarily knowing what it was for 😅
I’m curious, what kind of time intervals are you thinking? Seems like the length will have a big impact on what is communicated. In a line, for example, I imagine that shorter time intervals would allow the viewer to track individual people as they move along. Longer intervals would lose the narrative about individual folks in the line. I think either one could be powerful though.
Aaron — I love this idea. So timely. And I think taking the approach of focusing on the more subtle differences is great. One idea that could be emotionally loaded but also perhaps too on-the-nose (and of questionable ethics…), may be to focus on some of the lines outside covid testing facilities…