As a result of meeting with Lino for a session, David and I collaborated on a video. We are still working on the final cut; in class we screened a teaser.
First, Lino and I interviewed David and made some annotations while he talked. Then the three of us came up with a series of exercises that David could do in order to try something else. We handed him those sheets of paper.
We repeated the process with me as the subject. They asked, I answered, they made the annotations.
The three of us wrote down some out-of-the-ordinary challenges for my persona.
David and I decided to shoot something together, so I became the drop of fiction for one of his “observational” films. On Saturday morning we discussed a few ideas remotely, then we met, we did some scouting and further brainstorming so we could have a series of backup plans. On Sunday we paid close attention to the weather reports, and I asked Paz to come with me to the park.
David communicates by drawing.
I need to pen my ideas.
The shooting made David and I perform, and the circumstances made us move apart from the shooting itself.
David acted as if he was not using the camera on the tripod so other people would not see that he was spying on that couple over there. Paz and I. He brought a second camera with him. David was trying so hard to not make people think that he was recording us that he ended up shooting other people quite evidently. That should be considered a ‘fun fact’ that causes laughter.
I fluctuated between trying to figure out if David was able to spot us because I forgot what was the bench we previosly chose (David and I, the day before). Finally I decided that he was capable enough to find us and started wondering what the framing was (since his research is related to what is outside of the frame). I tried to build-up the moments in which I could starting acting as an animal. Paz became suspicious. These drunk men where starring at us, so we did the same. We were freezing, Paz wanted to leave. I changed the storyline. I saw David and remembered that I was somehow performing.
I will ask for Paz’s approval before publishing either clip, but I will have to show her the finished work first. Let us wait for the final cut.
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