Finnished!

I have edited, altered, synched the music and its done.

Having finished the two films and watching the production followed by the final film I think they really compliment each other – and the installation is free standing and working – so all in all - success!

Screen grabs
Electric Dialogue








The light installation itself is also completed and fully finnished. Adding small details like the silver round caps to go around the switches to just finnish the look off, and making sure no cables were visible anywhere.

Synching the video to the music track.
As I was finishing synching I found some sounds which I could use to exaggerate some of the actions. A few of them were the calculator buttons, a razor blade cutting, hand held screwdriver, projector hum and paintbrush strokes.

I have now got some more footage to edit without the map behind it, and i also did some more shooting playing with the camera focus. I am still not sure which footage i will be using in the final film but now i am editing with a choice.
Tomorrow i am going over the music and sounds again to synch them exactly to the film. I need to have the edits finilised by then.

CD designs

Sudden change!
To convey the concept of my film i would have to take a more static and literal approach to filming and editing. I have decided to play to the more visual aspect. I am going to re-shoot the footage without the map background. This way it will be a more visually pleasing film and still have the concept as all the bulbs are positioned to hang in each country, but there will not be the obvious loud map. It is a last sudden change but i think it will create a much more effective film in the end.

However here is an edit of the film with the map in the background. I painted the outline in glow in the dark paint so when the lights are off there would still be an interesting outline visible.
I am also unsure whether to involve text - but i would film it rather than have it appear as black and white text as below.

First edit from Emily Forbes on Vimeo.

Here is a short clip of the production film, the whole film follows the process of making the light piece for the second film...but i am adding to the sound exaggerating the individual noises.

Production clip from Emily Forbes on Vimeo.

Here are a few screen grabs from the first edit of film 1:

The past few days i have been filming the installation.
I have tomorrow in the studio as well to get the final shots together.