Melbourne Coming (GOING)

Melbourne Coming (GOING)
My latest film project.

Earlier this month, I uploaded a new project that I had been working on during one weekend.
The aim of this project was to experiment with some new film techniques to learn how to best utilise them in film.
I wasn't expecting it to be anything spectacular or even entertaining, again, just like most of my recent projects, it was just to play around and see what would happen.
I apologise in advace to those who are thinking of watching it. There is quite a visual over-load in this film.
I, myself, found it quite over-stimulating at first.
Nevertheless, I was proud of what I had learnt rather than what I had achieved.

There were two techniques/effects that I wanted to experiment with in this project.
The first effect was film speed.
The second effect was layering.

The subject of this project was Melbourne's CBD (Central Business District).
Since I often find myself wandering the streets of the CBD on weekends, it was the most accessible subject.

While the speed technique is easy to understand and doesn't need explaining, I feel that I should explain what I was trying to achieve with the layering effects.

In this film, I used 3 layers (the most that I could use in the version of Adobe Premier that I am using).

1st Layer:
The first layer is the base of the film footage.
It is simply footage of the streets of Melbourne's CBD sped up.

2nd Layer:
The second layer consists of some textured footage.
I tried to capture shapes and lines from over-head fluorescent lights and flights of stairs to plans of wood from a boardwalk and tiles from the street, etc.
When I recorded the footage of the textured images, I made sure that the shapes would move across the screen in a way that defines their texture.

3rd Layer:
The third layer was made up of iconic images found within the Melbourne CBD.
I chose these images particularly because they were iconic. Just like the textured images, I would 'bounce' the image around the screen so that the views eyes would be drawn to move across the screen just like they would as if they were walking the street.

The result...
...well, I feel like I must admit the limitations of this piece. The performance of my failing laptop was put to the test as I edited this film. It took well over an hour just to render 3 layers in the programme.
Being a busy man, I wasn't really patient and I just wanted to finish the film as quickly as possible.
There are many scenes that I am not happy with. For example, some cut-scenes were not as fluid or well-blended as I would have liked. Also, some certain layers were too over-powering and created moments that were too confusing or too one-dimensional. At other times, some images were too weak and didn't come out at all.
Nevertheless, it is from these mistakes that I learnt a lot. I hope to someday use the techniques I learnt in another project.

Photography:
I found it interesting that I had not tried layering in photography yet.
I think I have found my latest photography project. :)