Monday 15 August 2011

Filming the Bathroom/Sound in the Bathroom

Filming the bathroom has proven more difficult than I thought! I keep bloomin' forgetting to take my camera with me so so-far I've only managed to film one whole shower and today's preparation for showering (because the battery died just as I climbed in the shower!). I've put it on charge now and I'm going to carry it around with me like it's an extra body part - same with my 'diary'.

Camera Angles_I've been playing around with camera angles in the bathroom. The bathroom, being a personal space, should remain so. I've been trying to film snippets of the bathing experience to keep the bathing/showering/brushing/cleaning (and so on) personal to me.

Sound_will become a valuable tool in the recording of my time in the bathroom. Using visuals will show the viewer my ritual, and so could sound. Sounds are correlative of a movement, action or ritual in the bathroom - this method of recording is quite ambiguous because each bathroom user has their own movements, actions and routines. I'm pretty sure that not many people who listen to my sound-scape will have eczema and this will impact my sound recording quite dramatically.

Video to follow once my camera is charged :)

Sunday 14th August_Diary Entry

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3rd day of the bathroom diary.

Had bit of an eventful start to the day as you will see when you read it. Im going to use Sketchup to generate some models for Sunday later tonight (monday)! The diary is useful for writing the specific routines I have as I do them, it's not so useful for visualizing my design so I need to get creative!