Water Talk Video
I have been able to discover so much about premiere pro this semester which has been quite exciting. On some level, there are similarities between photoshop and premiere, which helped my initial approach to the software. After playing a bit with more simple concepts such as creating a video that looped or a video that only consisted of sound, I moved onto more conceptually stimulating projects.
Water talk was part of the beginning of my investigation of how I can authentically but also curiously represent my eating disorder and recovery. When brainstorming for the video I had a couple of false leads of ideas, but this idea suddenly emerged with much clarity. It is an artistic documentation of toxic behaviors that I used during the descent into my eating disorder. I was more interested in the visual aspect of this piece and wrote the spoken word aspect in about 2 minutes to match what I saw in my head. I am sure I was at least slightly inspired by the video Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey, and the book The Awakening. The reason I wore a robe was to make the whole thing seem dreamy and surreal.
Filming this video was a little stressful because the environment was very volatile, the streetlight kept going out and turning back on so we had to rush to film. But Mayra did a great job and definitely captured the visual I was looking for. While editing this video I learned a lot of skills including how to operate the opacity and play with the colors of footage. I played a lot with the timing of the images to give myself the feel I was going for.
I think the most important part of this film is the end where I explode out of the water, hinting to recovery.
