post three: table top video

For my table top video, I was interested in playing with the viewer's eye by performing a brief dialogue between two people, but filling the frame with different framing aspects such as profile and closeup. Even though I cannot move the camera or zoom in or out I can still give the feeling of such an effect by altering what I display into that camera.

I want to demonstrate that even with only one person and a stationary camera, which my seem quite minimalist, you can create some interesting visuals and make the audience still feel like they are being led along from many different settings. I am also interesting in tricking the viewer's eye by hiding certain parts of the frame from them, but then when they are then revealed, something unexpected was being presented in that hidden space. I also wanted to perform all of this while still entertaining the viewer with a laugh or two during the two and a half minutes.

I was unable to make my filming session so I cannot comment about how it went but I can discuss how the rehearsals went when finecrafting my tabletop video. When first writing my brief dialogue I felt it was way too short so I kept trying to find things to add to entertain the viewer more and to help fill up the time, however then when it came time to film I realized I had way too much material and the 150 seconds seemed to go by incredibly fast. That two and a half minutes seem to pass by faster than I ever expected. I was then performing the exact opposite task by trying to find what I could eliminate from the performance without making it any less entertaining and meaningful. I learned for something like this that not necessarily a narrative or dialogue is the perfect thing to perform. Maybe with an extra minute it would be perfect? I think something with more of a gimmick would be better for this. Such as performing something that lasts exactly two and half minutes no matter how many times you do it or possibly trying to accomplish a task for the viewer on the camera that is visually stimulating all while being able to be performed for that short amount of time.