Videos

In this video, Fried Eggs, I wanted to show the relationship between a fried egg and where it comes from—a bird. Although chickens do not have nests, I thought that a nest would be a good way to get across the idea of a bird. I don’t know about anyone else, but a lot of the time I am eating I do not think about where my food is coming from. By taking the egg directly from the next as opposed to an egg carton, I was trying to show the influence of nature in our everyday lives. The video is meant to show the relationship between things that are natural and things that are man made. Next to the nest are two salt and pepper shakers shaped like birds. I wanted to make sure that nothing in the scene was really natural. The nest has been taken out of its natural environment, the birds are obviously not real, and the egg has been through some processing of its own.

In this video, Swing, I wanted to explore the concept of jumping off a swing from many different angles. I picked jumping off the swing as a concept because it naturally has its own build up, peak when you jump off, and ending, or landing. I used three different points of view to compose my video. In all of them I wanted the swing to be the focal point. I thought the composition was better when less of the background was being shown. I also wanted to show the contrast between the person swinging and the empty swing in addition to the contrast between the shadows and what is creating the shadows. When I was thinking of an idea I was thinking of the shots as if they were photographs and how I would want a photograph to be composed.