Astridvan Nimwegen trimester4 2nd year

Project plan Practical steps

Currently I am working on a series of 'Garagedoor videos' in which a garagedoor opens first as if the curtains of a stage open. An isolated, Dutch polderlandscape becomes visible and after two minutes the garagedoor closes again. I collected around twenty videos of the same garagedoor on different days till so far. With the last three videos I recorded the sound on a separate device; first I used one microphone with a boom but monosound from one direction (outside the barn) is not so exciting; since the barn functions as a kind of resonance box. So the next step was record stereo. Since every little detail in the shot needs attention I am also busy arranging a red-camera to record the shot technical perfect and as precise as possible. I think if the shot is captured as sharp as possible on a red-camera, all little movements and reflections in the small puddles of water in the frame, becomes even more convincing. The same thus counts for the sound. Last week I watched the video in a cinema-setting and there I was amazed by the stereosound, but it was only coming from the front of the space, so for the last video I captured the sound on four channels in order to create surround sound in the same cinemaspace to see if I can create a more total experience in the environment. The scale of the video is an important matter. I not only watched it in a cinema but also in the 'Sub-urban videolounge' because there it is possible to project wall-filling. And that as well made a big difference from watching just a projected frame on a wall(like in our project space). I think the work will be amazing if installed in a big room with four videos on four big walls with surround sound. The room is dark and then suddenly one garagedoor opens. After closing again the room will be dark for a few minutes again and then a garagedoor on one of the other walls will open.