It challenges the idea of using personally filmed footage by using footage taken from youtube and royalty free websites - this could be a good example of "bricolage", the concept within post-modernism were you utilize the things around you exactly in your product while keeping originality e.g. the modern Psycho shot by shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's version, OR, Alien Versus Predator's mimicked shots/scenes from both films. My bricolage uses the fact that the things around me were Youtube videos.
This form of mash-up video was inspired by Daniel Swan, a video editor/artist who only uses footage from Youtube, trawling through for ages to find aesthetically suitable bits of footage:
You can see, he has taken highly generic footage of someone filming out the window of their car on a high exposure (making the sky white), keying the sky out and then finding footage of space which he has stuck rotation on for the background. It's created a simple illusion of a spinning planet - It was a very big inspiration for me.
You can see, he has taken highly generic footage of someone filming out the window of their car on a high exposure (making the sky white), keying the sky out and then finding footage of space which he has stuck rotation on for the background. It's created a simple illusion of a spinning planet - It was a very big inspiration for me.
I developed this mash-up technique by using far more footage, some of which I filmed myself and had rendered on 3D software for me (the spinning planet and me walking). It was mostly sourced from suitable clips though. A video post I posted before this one of The Proxy's "8000" video has a practically identical idea, but instead of internet sourced footage, they'd used archive sourced footage, from Russia.
The budget was absolute zero. This was purely because i'm an independent filmmaker. had I been in a production company following protocol, I'd have needed to use royalty free, creative commons footage instead of illegally ripped youtube footage. However, with the ripped footage, although it does technically belong to Youtube, was so heavily edited and modified it often hardly resembled what it used to be - I sometimes combined around 15 different pieces of footage on youtube to create something entirely different, hardly resembling something you could recognize as your own. It makes it interesting an amalgamation of that many clips was republished on youtube...
I've had zero copyright issues in this project - although what I did was probably on some level illegal, it's arguable as something different was created - maybe it was just the editing stage that could have friction as the clips remained as the raw files downloaded of youtube...
Health and safety really wasn't an issue at all. Unless you count looking at a screen for 7 hours - it probably wasn't great for my vision. I didn't go on location at all really, apart from just a few shots we did at the junction but we had technicians and supervisors to make sure everything done was safe - they needed to as they were working with a college unassociated with them.
The budget was absolute zero. This was purely because i'm an independent filmmaker. had I been in a production company following protocol, I'd have needed to use royalty free, creative commons footage instead of illegally ripped youtube footage. However, with the ripped footage, although it does technically belong to Youtube, was so heavily edited and modified it often hardly resembled what it used to be - I sometimes combined around 15 different pieces of footage on youtube to create something entirely different, hardly resembling something you could recognize as your own. It makes it interesting an amalgamation of that many clips was republished on youtube...
I've had zero copyright issues in this project - although what I did was probably on some level illegal, it's arguable as something different was created - maybe it was just the editing stage that could have friction as the clips remained as the raw files downloaded of youtube...
Health and safety really wasn't an issue at all. Unless you count looking at a screen for 7 hours - it probably wasn't great for my vision. I didn't go on location at all really, apart from just a few shots we did at the junction but we had technicians and supervisors to make sure everything done was safe - they needed to as they were working with a college unassociated with them.
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