BACK TO PROJECTS
Again, this was a small idea I had had around the same time as coming up with the Rob Zombie music video. By now I was heavily becoming interested and fascinated with distortion and obstruction of the image � deforming it as much as possible. I guess I was (and still am as a matter of fact) rebelling against the recent fascination with crystal clear sound and video as a result of DVD (which as a matter of fact has now become a weakness of mine, like it has many others � my collection has soared beyond belief within 18 months).
But again, I digress. The idea behind �Experiment In Exposure� was to make a quirky, experimental short set to a piece of music which suited the tempo of the images I was presenting. The video is entirely constructed out of footage shot in my bedroom, but it was such minor details that the outside viewer would be left guessing what certain images were.
This video was shot in black and white and utilised a number of different levels of light and dark. Everything was either over or under exposed. This was also another chance to practice with the title sequences. I wanted to make the title cards abstract, hard to read, more interesting than the standard plain text we have become accustomed to.
Finally, this experimental short was edited again on a VCR, at least in the first place. By the time I went off to begin the 2nd year of University (and the mammoth task of gathering footage for Uni Video 3), I had not completed the short � the soundtrack was still to be placed into the equation. The short was put on hold for a while, until I bought my computer editing suite and was able to re-capture the footage, as well as some new footage devoted to my favourite band (who also did the piece of music that I was going to use for the video) � HIM (His Infernal Majesty), a Finnish five-piece heavy metal group. The new footage of the band which I cut into this short again gave rise to the furtherance of my obsession with deconstructing the image. By recording the footage straight off the television screen itself with the lense overexposed, I gained a certain aesthetic which questions the recorded image itself � that may sound pretentious, but I don�t mean to be � I�m not just taping off the television screen because it�s a wacky Sixth Form film student thing to do. I�m actually questioning, or at least making obvious, the recorded image.
