Laura

For this semester we were asked to start documenting every day things we do around our homes, through class discussions I started to see the differences between the house and the home.  The home is the place were we as individuals can feel safe and secure, however as a class we worked out that the idea of home is very varied.

As the first exercise we were asked to film ourselves making a simple cup of tea, this process and watching it back afterwards made me notice things about this simple process such as the noises I make and things I do subconsciously while making a cup of tea.

I made this film twice as the first time I thought was very long however this is the one I ended up using as with some editing it was the better of the two.

As the second exercise we were asked to start mapping out our own houses by taking photos and drawing floor plans. From this documentation we were to make a scale model of two areas of our house, which would then be used for filming in later weeks.

As I got to documenting my home I began to realize all the noises of traffic, my parents radios, my dogs barking, the shower running, the Tv and dvds, doors shutting, my family cooking and talking as well as all the in between noises that you are not sure where they come from.

  

While we were working on the documenting of our homes we also worked on the third exercise, which was a stop animation of something within our home. This stop animation was to document a changing element within our home. When I was brain storming at home I was watching my family doing their everyday things around the home. I ended up creating a stop animation of my mum making stock one afternoon.

As part of the second exercise I stared to create a model of my bedroom and the hallway outside my bedroom. This scale model was at 1:10 scale is rather large, however when I made one at 1:20 it was too small to use my camera in with ease. Once the model was finished I started to work on filming for the project “Real and Unreal”

For the “Real and Unreal” exercise we had to combine real footage of our homes with footage that has been filmed within the model. For this project I wanted to tell the story of me unpacking my wardrobe from my recent overseas trip.