Begining research!

The first thing I thought of when the project was explained was a music video from one of my favourite bands. It's particularly relevant as they made it from still images as well as video. It is sort of stop animation style but it's the parts that feature transitional spaces, like the roads and the car park that I'm particularly interested in.


I have also taken screencaps of my favourite parts below...


The top two are from a scene where they basically filmed the clock and slipped the camera in and out of focus and then sped it up post-production. Obviously the clock isn't really transitional space but the process of how they filmed it interests me.

It gave me the idea that you can track time in a transitional space by filming it for an hour (for example a train station or bus stop) and change the focus or possibly even angle to explore how the transitional space is used.

The final three screencaps are the ones that interest me most. As I travel and drive a lot I spend a lot of time in those kind of transitional spaces:- cars, buses, trains, motorways and the service stations that line them. I have previously experimented with achieving a similar effect to the ones they get in the video, which you can see below.

They were taken during a period when I had to go to Hull hospital every day for three weeks and to pass the time I experimented with light trails and the transitional spaces available. They were deliberately shot to be astract and not focused as the days began to blur for me and the journey became so familiar, I became so blasé about it that nothing stood out to me anymore and it all just passed me at 60 miles an hour.











Because there are still many other types of transitional space to explore and more ideas I am going to continue searching. However, travelling and the transitional spaces related to that do seem to inspire me most, so this is something I may come back to.