Link: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jc8017/VideoWebsite/index.html
Description:
For this video project, we adapted a short story called Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. This particular short story is part of a collection of short stories, each with it’s own peculiar theme.
Process:
The project consisted of two parts, shooting the adaption and formatting those films onto the website to create a narrative. For our purposes. we adapted certain chapters of the short story. Each chapter has it’s own story. The general premise is that this man has died and he is wandering in an un named place. He is writing these letters to a significant other, often the content is contemplating his life and his relationship to significant other. Adapting those chapters were difficult as we didn’t any prior filming experience. Nevertheless, we managed to film scenes that portrayed certain aspects of those short chapters. The scenes were shot on a samsung galaxy s9. The reason for this selection is due to a the equipment available to us. One of us had a dolly made for phones. We were able to take scenes with a lot of movement.The footage came out okay in the end. After some editing, we pieced it together to create three different scenes. Each scene is an adaptation of one of the letters of the short story.
For the website, we wanted interactions that look at certain scenes from different perspectives. For the first scene, we had two videos shot from two different perspective, one from over the shoulder and one from the ground. Both simulated the motion of walking. The second scene we had different filters. The third one generate several videos that hopefully create this creepy feeling.
Overall the project met our goals. We wanted to adapt the short story. However, one aspect we would like to work on is the interaction. As of right now, the interactions seems disconnected with the story. With more time, we hopefully could include interactions that matches the story.
