Day 3
On the third day of the analogue film workshop we met in Redruth to work at Back Lane West and Murdoch House. Despite it only being our third day with the cameras, we all felt a lot more comfortable with them today. We still needed the occasional pointer from Jo and Jacqui, but they were keen to hand over the reins to us, so we did almost all of the filming ourselves and took full control over the shots we wanted.
We had the idea to use shadow puppets to try and represent the magical quality – both scary and awe inspiring – gas lighting would have had at the time of its initial invention and introduction to society. Melissa brought in a paraffin lamp and we used this to create the soft effect of traditional lighting, we also used the stronger light of a modern projector to play with the effects we could create with the shadows.
After this we tried to get some nice shots of the externals of Murdoch house and its surrounding area, as well as the fantastic bust of William Murdoch which is housed there. We also tried our hand at double exposure, this needed a bit of precision, but it’s an interesting and fairly easy technique which will hopefully create some very interesting images.
On the third day of the analogue film workshop we met in Redruth to work at Back Lane West and Murdoch House. Despite it only being our third day with the cameras, we all felt a lot more comfortable with them today. We still needed the occasional pointer from Jo and Jacqui, but they were keen to hand over the reins to us, so we did almost all of the filming ourselves and took full control over the shots we wanted.
We had the idea to use shadow puppets to try and represent the magical quality – both scary and awe inspiring – gas lighting would have had at the time of its initial invention and introduction to society. Melissa brought in a paraffin lamp and we used this to create the soft effect of traditional lighting, we also used the stronger light of a modern projector to play with the effects we could create with the shadows.
After this we tried to get some nice shots of the externals of Murdoch house and its surrounding area, as well as the fantastic bust of William Murdoch which is housed there. We also tried our hand at double exposure, this needed a bit of precision, but it’s an interesting and fairly easy technique which will hopefully create some very interesting images.
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