Final Video Assignment
Here is my final video assignment for DIVA. I’ve decided to call it “Boy Rides Bike With Poetry” as a reference to the many number of other video pieces with explicit titles.
I wanted to play with the idea of moving through spaces and the specific rules that govern those spaces. I tried to set up the movie time line in such a way that it would resemble a pattern, or a digital rule governed space. This way the video would create tension, between the flow of the images and the cutting of the scenes. The quick and shaky cuts also serve this idea of creating tension between spaces and elaborating on the differences of rules governing specific spaces.
I chose to shoot at night to further exaggerate the difference of spaces. The night-time alleys become almost private in a sense and so further juxtapose space with a sense of private and public. I also wanted to give the viewer a sense that they were part of this unfolding of spatial transitions which is why I decided to shoot with one hand. Also, it made me able to reveal the bicycle as the superior medium for transitioning through rule governed spaces.
