(My Attempt at) The Recursive Camera

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I tried my best with this assignment, but it was harder than I thought. The original post states to use prezi, but I could not get it to work and did not want to spend money on it. I pay the monthy Adobe Creative Cloud student fee, and have access to all of their software. They have an app called Adobe Premier Rush that allows for video editing. It was pretty user friendly, but the audio recording was a bad quality, so I used audacity and imported that into Rush.

I was originally going to make this video about how I run to the coffee pot as soon as I woke up, but in the process of taking the photos my cat mittens thought I was going to feed him. I felt bad, so I gave him a little night snack for the video. For the sounds I used a clip of a cat meowing, then recorded my cat meowing.

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The Typewriter

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This assignment I did is called The Recursive Camera where you must do the following:

“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 video. Make sure you’re telling a story with your images and add voice-over narration where/if appropriate.”

So to relate to the 80s theme, my main object was a typewriter because it relates to the 80s, and I have one that my aunt gave me last Christmas. For my frame, I used my iPhone case because I did not have a second camera to use, so I got creative and came up with that. I quite a few photos of the typewriter through my frame as the instructions say to do. Then, I edited some of the photos using Microsoft Word for the purposes of nesting them in Prezi. Then I recorded my screen of going through the Prezi using Quicktime Player on my Mac. Then, I added a title screen, credits, and my narration of what I turned into a short documentary story on typewriters to the screen recording to create my video using iMovie. Check out my video below.

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Stubborn Prezi User

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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.

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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.

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The Recursive Camera

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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 video.

Make sure you’re telling a story with your images and add voice-over narration where/if appropriate.

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