Temporal Shift

Hey guys,
So for the temporal shift project we needed to manipulate time in some way. One thing that really struck me when we were discussing this project in class was when we were discussing the movement of things in terms of time. I wanted to experiment in particular the movement of the body and how it alters our perception as it is sped up or slowed down. We are so used to things moving at a certain pace, so when that pace is altered, it captivates our attention.

A week or so before I started this project, I took a 20 second clip of a man and woman fire dancing. When filming this I didn't really intend to turn it in for a project but once the project was assigned I thought it would be a great way to experiment with the timing of body movements and an added plus, the movement of fire.

This clip was only 20 seconds so I needed to alter the time so it would make a 2 minute video. I started out by just slowing down the pace but I wanted to see more than that. I started playing with speeding some parts up, slowing down others, reversing some, and repeating the same choppy clip. It was hard for me to just edit the clips randomly and wanted to have more fluidity in the piece so I decided to add a soundtrack. I pick the song "Beauty Beats" by Beats Antique because they always have a belly dancer accompanying their music which reminded me of the movement of the fire dancers. Once I added the song, it gave me direction on how I should edit the clips.

My final product ended with taking a 20 second clip and making it into 2 minutes. I tried to make the video not look like it was only 20 seconds of footage. To do that I took one little segment of the clip and slow it down, speed it up and reverse it so that segment that I kept repeating still didn't look repetitive because I altered the time in so many different ways.