Our current group of online workshops with Estela Saez, are geared towards figuring out new ways to show our work via film.
As someone who grew up pre-internet and mobile phone, I’m still wowed by how much our phones and laptops can achieve.
Recording audio on my phone from you tube…perhaps comes across an an amateur move but honestly, sometimes I reckon we over think things.
LOL I hear all Makers guffawing “of course we over think things! Thats pretty much the point”.
The trigger for this line of thought…I was watching an interview with pop-Queen Billie Eillish about the making of her last album, and how she recorded her vocals on a hand held mic and with room mics (no head phones, which is unusual) I think, so she can really hear, feel and connect to her voice (without the disconnect of the sound you make going from your microphone, through an audio interface then back into your ear via headphones) but also because there is an ambient level of room noise that makes things sound warmer. Its akin to the difference between a vinyl crackle and the clarity of CD sound (again, showing my age here).
I feel like the same logic could be applied for audio (and video??) shot on my phone of an underwater scene on the computer…there is an intentional grainy quality to the recording that felt like a good fit for the vocal soundscape I had recorded on LogicPro.
I’ve long recognised the value of making creative video content but up to this point hadn’t had the time to focus on learning how to do it. This element of the Handshake 8 Programme has been incredibly valuable in that sense. Each person working within their technical means to the best of their creativity – has produced some fascinating results and there is much further learning through discussing the results amongst our cohort.
When studying for my Jewellery Degree, I was baffled that there wasn’t an element focusing on marketing, social media and content creation because I strongly feel that this is a requirement of entrepreneurship today. Particularly in the Makers realm where the money to hire experts is often not available.
Getting a grasp on creating video content fells like the glue that will bring the varied aspects of my practice together – Music, Making and Creative Imagery. Once again I’m feeling gratitude for the learning opportunity Handshake 8 has afforded.
Nuff said
Over and out.