Final Project Part One!

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Here are my contributions to Man With The Movie Camera!

Remember that feeling you had when you got your first camera (probably when you were very young)? That urge to run out and film or photograph everything in sight, no matter how mundane it was? Now take that feeling and magnify it about ten times, and I think you'll get an idea of what Vertov was feeling when he created the original Man With the Movie Camera. His footage conveys that sense of wonder and excitement so well; there are a lot of very significant moments captured in the film, but the vast majority of them are scenes from insignificant everyday life. With video cameras so easy to come by today and sights like Youtube taking up so much of our time, I think it's easy to forget why Man With the Movie Camera was so significant in the first place. I'm glad to have been able to participate in The Global Remake, but I think that the childlike sense of wonder that Vertov's original film has in such abundance can never be properly conveyed in a modern recreation.

All that being said, the clips I chose to reshoot were ones that seemed to provide an adequate sampling of the large variety of images found in the original film. There's two that feature everyday, unremarkable occurrences (trees blowing gently in the wind and people entering a building), one of a very significant and touching moment in a person's life (the birth of a child) and one that was both iconic of the project and seemed to reflect the quirky and experimental attitude that is present in many of the shots (the seemingly tiny man filming on top of the camera)