This is the fifth day of our class and the first day with the cloudy and raining weather. Although the weather was not as good as last few days, the sites we visited are still amaze us. Brooklyn Bridge Park, Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens visitor center are all really nice projects.
With regards of today's subject, we are trying to use this media method to explode the movements in the area we are interested in. The camera itself is static, therefore, the movements of the objects in the scene will be emphasized. We were looking for the specific spot to record the moving objects and the static background.
Our favorite videos today are all took in our first stop, Brooklyn Bridge Park. The first clip was in the steps where we took the first group photo today. We found this clip are interesting because of its dynamic layering. The static background are the city skyline in the other side of the river. The most conspicuous moving object is the boat on the river with the slow and peace speed passing through the scene. However, there is another "moving layer" in between, which is the moving cars on the high way between the skyline and the river. The objects is small but fast. The contract between large/slow and small/fast in different layers made the static scene dynamic and created the hierarchy of the speed in the horizontal layering of the city elevation.
With regards of today's subject, we are trying to use this media method to explode the movements in the area we are interested in. The camera itself is static, therefore, the movements of the objects in the scene will be emphasized. We were looking for the specific spot to record the moving objects and the static background.
Our favorite videos today are all took in our first stop, Brooklyn Bridge Park. The first clip was in the steps where we took the first group photo today. We found this clip are interesting because of its dynamic layering. The static background are the city skyline in the other side of the river. The most conspicuous moving object is the boat on the river with the slow and peace speed passing through the scene. However, there is another "moving layer" in between, which is the moving cars on the high way between the skyline and the river. The objects is small but fast. The contract between large/slow and small/fast in different layers made the static scene dynamic and created the hierarchy of the speed in the horizontal layering of the city elevation.
The second video took in the Brooklyn Bridge Park as well. We were also looking for the moving objects in the static background. Comparing to the first video, the layering of this video were two different activities happened in the same place but the shift timing. The first one was the walking worker with the slower speed passing through the scene. The second one was the jogging person with the faster speed crossing the scene later than the worker. The diverse of the speed of moving object happened in the same place also made the scene dynamic in the other way from the first dynamic layering.
The two videos all showing the dynamic scene through the static lens, but in the different scale. The first one is the dynamic layering in the city scale, and the second one is the diverse activities layering in the space scale. They are all interesting to us, and it is another way to discover and analyze the space with this media method.
Overall, bad weather but still was a worth day in NYC!
Overall, bad weather but still was a worth day in NYC!