Making some work at last
Now that most of the requirements for graduation are completed, I have finally found some time this week to complete a work which I have been struggling with for several months now. Yes, it’s the slow-motion fast-action piece which has been mentioned here a couple of times, a fairly simple idea which has taken quite a lot of effort to realise.
This is especially so since I decided that it should become a series of four videos, rather than the original one. The idea is that some repetition would increase the effect.
So it was then that, with Astrid’s help, I have been making video recordings in various locations across the city: the Ten Katemarkt, the Museumplein, the Marie Heinekenplein, and of course the Zuidplein, where I have been countless times now in search of the perfect shot.
With that all done, all that remained was to process and edit the video. For this, it was necessary to collect various sounds. One of the more interesting of these was the sound of pigeons taking off. To get a recording of this noise, I stood in the middle of a square where there were lots of pigeons, and put a small digital recorder borrowed from Julien on the ground. I then threw crumbled pieces of biscuit on the ground, and sure enough, soon there were hundreds of pigeons surrounding me. All that was necessary was to make a sudden movement, and the filthy birds were soaring up into the air. It must have been quite a strange sight for any passers-by.
