Movement Video

Movement Video from Amanda White on Vimeo.

Group Narrative

Research from K Wilson on Vimeo.

For this project I did most of the camera work. Obviously, Matt also did some because we wanted it to be a P.O.V. shot from his perspective and his hands were in the shot.

Treatment Based on Interesting Phrase

"Found my cat that's been missing for 3 days. Turns out she was stuck in the chimney."

She’s Lost Her Marbles-Treatment

An older woman is seen putting on a heavy winter coat, boots and gloves. She looks around the house and yells out “Marbles!” Looking hopeless, the woman takes a deep breath and grabs a stack of papers and a hammer off of the table and walks out the door.

It’s snowing heavily outside. The ground is already covered in fresh white snow. You can see the woman’s breath as she walks down the sidewalk. She walks up to a tree and stares at it for a second, feeling overwhelmed. Then she begins to nail the “Lost Cat” poster onto the tree.

She continues walking around the neighborhood, stopping at every other tree. She enters a few shops to hang signs there as well.

After a few more shops, she begins to feel more hopeless. Tears are welling up in her eyes as she asks a shop owner for his permission to hang her sign. She then tells her story to the shop owner about how she has had Marbles since he was only 8 weeks old. They are very close and she doesn’t know what she would do without him.

After leaving this shop, the woman decides that there’s no hope in trying to find Marbles out in this weather. She gives up, and starts to walk back home.

The woman takes off her coat and boots and begins to make a fire.  She sits in her rocking chair in front of the fire and begins to cry. She then looks at the fire questioningly because she thinks hears a noise. Then, Marbles meows loudly and runs down the chimney, through the fire and lands in the women’s lap. 

Interesting Phrases

"I'm calling it game on accounts of the rain."

"It's weird and lame and weird."

"Found my cat that's been missing for 3 days. Turns out she was stuck in the chimney."

"...like a dog returns to his vomit."

"I swear sometimes I just want to walk out in front of a bus."

"...I should just drop out of college and get a real job."

Camera exercises

Image with deep focus:

This is much clearer when the image is larger.

Same image with shallow focus:

This is also much clearer when the image is larger.

Image with "outdoor" preset white balance:

Image white balanced to an orange surface:

Image in low light:

I could NOT get this to work. I probably just don't understand the camera settings. :/

Image in action:

Documentary-Kelly's Version

I don't want to think about it from K Wilson on Vimeo.

My Photo Doc Essay