Since the beginning, we chose to not explore a 8 meters space, but we wanted to examine a smaller one as we wanted the viewers to focus only on the movements, while not getting lost in the surroundings that were in the video. At first we tried to ask other people to reproduce what movements they think that water was doing. We realised that the video was not the most effective way to show the exploration of a space, as the camera was not filming still and the movements could not be captured fully and entirely.
Moreover, with a video, the progression of a movement in our specific space was not shown in a proper way, so we came up with the idea of taking burst photos to show the actions step-by-step. Here there are various movements that we captured using the burst mode:
FIRST PART:
In this video, we wanted to explore the movements of water by the river Seine. We notice that the water, when moving, does two movements: one up and down and the other one backward and forward. With this idea, we chose to reproduce those actions with parts of our body to emphasise the adaptation and blending of a body in a particular space. The choice of filming only some details of the figure was to make the viewers feel as they were part of this space and the bright colours used were to create a light shadow that would fade the area and make it more abstract. The choice to alternate pictures of the knees with the ones of the hand is to symbolise the movement of the water that may stop and change direction, without being fully fluid and uninterrupted. The sounds that are playing with the video are the various movements of the river, that gently flows through the city with a slow and calm pace.
SECOND PART:
As the movement was not clearly understood by the viewers because there was an alternation of the knees and the hand pictures, we chose to remove the movement of the knees and show only the one of the hand. This way we managed to recreate, effectively, the actions of the water step-by-step with the help of photographs that follow each other in a continuous loop. The sounds in the background remained the same as we believe that they complete the meaning of the space representation and really give the idea of being immersed in water. Instead, the camera, instead of moving up and down, remained still so that the viewers focused only on the movement produced by the hand without getting lost and confused into understanding the whole space surrounding the body.
