[Video] “A Feather in his Cap”
Monday January 07th 2008, 2:59 pm
Filed under: Video
Posted by: Georgia

I recently signed on as a member of an initiative called Semanal, where the goal is to produce 52 videos for the year (ie one per week), so it seems like I’m now sort of committed to this video thing. Which gave me the impetus to turn the footage I shot on that achingly gorgeous day at Mount St. Benedict into something.

I beg you, therefore, to view this one more as an exercise in creating a narrative of sorts out of material shot without any particular purpose in mind, and in playing with mood and atmosphere, rather than trying to discern any meaning (there isn’t any). It was also the first real test of the Aiptek GO-HD camcorder, which, like most cameras of its ilk, yields the best shots in good light and when the camera is held still. And next time I promise I’ll take along a tripod.

Thanks to Nikipedia, Jonty, André, Alison Allyson and the waitress at the Pax Guest House for participating (albeit involuntarily). The soundtrack was borrowed from here.

Click here see a slightly larger version of the video. And here to join Semanal.

(”A Feather in his Cap” was previously uploaded elsewhere under the title “A Murder on the Mount”).

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Funny, I don’t recall signing a waiver.

At least I (rightfully) got top billing.

Comment by Nicholas Laughlin 01.07.08 @ 4:24 pm

wow. that camera looks really good. And good experiment with a narrative. Now let’s start seeing real life there!

Comment by jay dedman 01.07.08 @ 6:43 pm

Nicholas, when you get cast as a loner in a big Hollywood (or Bollywood) production, you’ll have me to thank.

And thanks for the kind comments, Jay. I know what you mean by “real life”, but given that the footage in the video was not in fact shot with a fictional narrative in mind, I’d like to put in a bid for walks on Mount St Benedict to be included on the roster of “real life” in Trinidad. It is something that people down here do fairly often, though probably not nearly as often as they should.

Comment by Georgia 01.07.08 @ 7:33 pm

Hah! Jay: relax, baby! :)
Nathan said on the Semanal site that he was imagining relationships between the people in the film… I was, too. You lured us into a story that wasn’t a story. Great stuff.
As I said at Ning:
I *love* the mood you developed from snapshot odds and ends with the great choice of music and inspired editing/postproduction!
Very pretty – very engaging.
Would love to have a go at doing this with some unintended archive footage.
What’s the music?

Comment by Rupert 01.08.08 @ 7:45 pm

love it. i´ll try to make something similar.

Comment by pepa garcía 01.09.08 @ 4:34 pm

Lovely! And this so much reminds me of so many quiet, hilltop, sunny walks in different corners of Trinidad and Tobago! And how wonderful it is to have these walks and how many people miss out on them because of their feelings about safety in our twin-island republic.
Long live the hillside stroll! and any documentation of them.
GG

Comment by Gillian 01.09.08 @ 9:32 pm



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