Over the past few months I've been making videos almost every day and I've called them #TinyAdventures due to them only being parts of everyday life. As part of the practical module I decided I wanted to get better at editing, especially when it involves music.



The idea of using the walking feet to introduce the audience to the videos comes from the original way the videos where built up. Usually it started with feet walking somewhere, to then show the place they ended up at, such as university. Every step the feet make shows a different day and a different background. This is all done in time with the music by Jun Miyake, best known from the trailer to the Wim Wenders documentary Pina.
In my trailer it seemed fitting due to the high tempo of the music. There is a base tempo to the music, but I tried to follow the melody lines as well, cutting on the notes. There is no diegetic sound, as the fast cutting would have made it sound awkward. This also has to do with the time-lapse footage used, which has no sound originally. 

I've shot all the footage in this video with my iPhone, using the inbuilt camera app. The only changes I've made to the original footage are cutting it, speeding it up, slowing it down or reversing it. I opted out of colour correcting the footage as that would be less like the original videos it came out off.

The decision to reverse the footsteps at the end of the video was made to create a balance with the beginning and the show that the videos will both look forward and back as I continue to make them. There will be calm moments as well as fast paced moments in the #TinyAdventures still to come.

The Sunday before class ended with a Documentary without knowing that I would be shooting one myself. The 50 Year Argument has been on my list since I was that Susan Sontag attributed her book 'Regarding the Pain of Others' to Barbara Epstein. Now, I've never read the New York review of books, this however did not stop me from enjoying the documentary a whole lot. It of course helped that Martin Scorsese directed it.

Back to my own predicament. I need to make a short documentary film about identity, specifically my own. And all this without sound. Luckily Susan Sontag comes to the rescue once again. 

The question of identity is always a difficult one to answer. 'Who are you?' is best answered within the context the question is asked in. However, I now need to make my own context. 'Who am I?' becomes less of a certainty and more of an exploration. What has shaped me, or is what shaped me really all that important anyway?

My current idea is to start with one of her quotes, followed by footage of me and my family. This will either be in pictures and film. My family is very into making videos during our holidays, so there will be more than enough footage to choose from.

The current list of ideas is as follows:

• Susan Sontag quote with family footage
• Susan Sontag quote with family pictures
• Re-cutting #TinyAdventures footage into a world according to me.
• My face intercut with things that make me me (planning, schedules, food, bed, books, DVDs etc.)
• Animation of me (think Waltz with Bashir)