Out of Place

So in brainstorming my out of place project I really was trying to think of situations where I myself felt disoriented or displaced. Usually I go through lots and lots of ideas before I decide on what to do for my project but for this one I went with the first thing I thought of. The first thing that came to mind for me was how disoriented I feel when spinning around in circles. Your dizzy, you can't see anything straight and even when you stop you still feel disoriented for a while after.

The goal for me was to break the forth wall and make the audience feel like they are spinning around and possibly even get them to be dizzy. I wanted the audience to feel as if they were actually spinning around, without them moving at all. To do this I made it so the camera lens was the audiences eyes. To capture that effect I started out with someone blindfolding the lens, to make it seem as if the audience member was being blindfolded.

After I blindfolded the camera, the spinning took place. I didn't want to spin the camera around in the same location because when you are spinning around you can't exactly tell where you are. So to increase this feeling of disorientation I spun around in random locations, some outside, some inside, some during the day and some at night.

While filming I got really nauseous myself spinning around in various locations throughout the shoot. But having me feel this dizziness and disorientation helped me portray that same feeling that I was trying to capture with the audience members. You can't no what makes other people feel disorientated without feeling disoriented yourself.

Once I was done with the shoot I began my editing process. I noticed that in all my clips I was spinning at different speeds so instead of having a bunch of random speeds of spinning I decided to slowly build up the spinning process. I had to order the clips based on how fast they were going and even after that I still had to change the speeds of a lot of the clips to make the transitions of speeds a little smoother.

I didn't know what to do for the sound because I wanted the sound to build up with the clips. I couldn't think of any songs that had this spinning build up type feel so I decided to make my own soundtrack. There was some music playing in the background when I was filming one of the clips so I took a little sound clip from that and altered the speed as my soundtrack. I wanted to make it a constant build up so every four beats I would increase the speed by 5%. Towards the end you could start hearing what the actual song sounded like because it was getting closer to the actual songs speed so I decided to put the song in reverse.

Once the sound and video edits were done I added a few color effects and the video was complete!