I've been looking into visual references for the occipital lobe section of the brain, in which when touched on the model will play a short film on the screen. In my previous post, I discussed how we thought indoor visuals might be more efficient to carry out. We are continuing with the point of view perspective, in order to try and make it more relatable to the audience. Hopefully the style will be interesting and appealing, but will not distract from the playfulness and interaction side of the installation. Tomorrow Josh, Tom and I are going to try some more visual tests, but this time indoors to see what we can accomplish and whether or not it fits with the rest of the piece.

"Point of View" // Doug Smith 

This short film shows a man going through his ordinary daily activities, but the audience watches as if they are looking through the man's eyes. Doug Smith wanted to 'fully embrace the idea seeing life in a way that we all do. Small narratives play out in our daily lives every single day, this is just my way of documenting it." Hopefully using a similar approach, we can engage the audience from being relatable and make them feel more connected with the installation. 

A concern that I brought up with Tom during our location scouting trip was how we were going to place the camera to make it look like a POV shot, while still being able to view upper body activities such as hand movement. He suggested having someone hold the camera in front of the actor who would be performing the activities, however we both felt that this would be too awkward and would probably not end up looking visually very realistic nor good. However for "Point of View," Doug Smith used a 'a belt and the supplied neck strap' to rig his DSLR to sit right where his neck is. Maybe we can try a test using this method to see if we can get our desired effect.  

A Ride in the Park // Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale 

Both the above clips are from the 2013 anthology horror film, V/H/S 2. This film instantly came to mind when thinking about shooting from a POV view as it uses this technique pretty regularly through it's many shorts. 

POV : Eating a Salad // College Humour