I then began thinking over a few things and decided on creating something really weird and experimental. I wanted to grind up children's numbered magnets in a blender, speed up the footage and voila - a video. Unfortunately, things don't work that easily in the video production world. I soon realized the blender idea wasn't all that great, so I focused on something else.
After watching the "Nastalgia" film, for which I cannot remember the name of its creator, I began thinking of melting the magnets. After talking it over with Prof Duran, I thought I had a great idea lined up that I was excited about.
Melting plastic on a hot stovetop isn't easy - and I learned this from completing the rough cuts with the Sony PD170 and Adobe OnLocation. First let me tell you - OnLocation is my new favorite toy. It allows for direct capturing onto your laptops hard drive without even recording anything to the camera at all. In fact, you don't even hit record on the camera itself - most of the controls can be found through the application's interface, although you still have to focus the camera and adjust other settings.
"Melted" took several hours to shoot, edit, re-edit, and eventually finalize. Each second in the video is actually over three minutes and thirty seconds. Each cut has been sped up 13,000 percent, and then reversed. This happens with each second except for the cut of the stove element and the final sequence, where it is sped up 8,000 percent and is not reversed.
I keep getting asked about the audio for this assignment. The audio was taken from Our Lady Peace's album "Spiritual Machines" from the song "R.K. On Death". To be honest, I don't know why I decided with this audio clip. As soon as I synched it with the video I knew instantly that it was the right decision. As someone mentioned in class, the audio brings a totally different element and level to the other countdown sequences thus far, and I strongly agree with that statement.
Melted can be viewed below.
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