I spent this morning capturing a more refined version of my idea for Kino, I recruited two crew members (thanks Callum and Alex) to help with the setup and filming as I wanted to be in the piece myself.

The filming only took six minutes after setting up and testing for over two hours. I was really hoping to achieve the effect that I was looking as close to down the lens of the cameras as possible which proved difficult as the shadow from the projection kept falling in shot. By raising the projector to a steep angle it moved the shadow down almost completely out of the frame but it is still slightly noticeable in the lower corners,I need to live with how it looks for a few days. Production is always compromised, I feel at the moment that I have made the right ones. I think the final direction that I appear to be looking works better than directly into the lens as it does not appear that I am looking at the viewer, this hadn’t occurred to me until I was editing this test together so I am happy that my original idea wouldn’t quite work. I am also please with how still we managed to get the shot without resorting to strapping my head down as I did not want it to appear that I was being forced to watch, but rather choosing to look through curiosity.

I am preparing a detailed post about the images that are being projected onto my face and how they were chosen and arranged.

The audio is reused from the concrete sound project but reversed, I am still working on the audio and wanted something to stand in.