A 5-star assignment: You’ll need a camera. And you’ll need another frame. Hold the frame in one hand (don’t let you hand cover the side facing you), and take a picture with it in the center of the image. Then step backwards and take another photo just like it. Repeat until you are tired of making art. Nest the images in Prezi inside the frame of the next picture. Now make a zoom path. Record it with video capture software. Add some video editing (you’ll have to use multiple stacks(only so much zoom in Prezi atm) and splice the ends of them together to make it seem contiguous), and you have a trippy.
I started this assignment a week ago and couldn’t figure out prezi for the life of me. I would spend about an hour on it everyday and I finally got it figured out. You close all your windows and tabs and insert your re-scaled images in (prezi did it for me, but I was also challenging it by uploading about five or so images at once ctrl+click). The rest of it was pretty straightforward.
My spin on this assignment was to have the frame shifting and also for the frame to be blurred by altering my field depth. I was shooting indoors at night so my aperture was at its widest at f/5.6 and sometimes even f/4 and the shutter speed did as it please. My focal length was at 55mm and after a while I didn’t stop to make sure everything I wanted was in focus – I just kept shooting. I wanted my movement to be more than just stepping backward, partially to remove the humans from their sitting/setting and more of a story on the way that my eye moves when I move with it.
So, the content: Shoes. I liked the idea of reverse walking and wanted to stick to that. I guess I’m just so used to walking forward that you don’t think to walk backwards – it’s how Ming Lo moved the mountain! Going off of that (Ming Lo) book that I read as a child I thought also to bubbles and the innocence of bubbles. I also wanted to create a story of perception, like I said earlier, of the way that the eye moves when you move with it. It’s pretty disorienting.