Actual footage

This is how the CCTV footage looks when played back.

Julian Rosefeldt - American Night

Julian Rosefeldt (b.1965) has made a name for himself with lavishly produced, moving image multi-screen installations. American Night is one of his most complex works to date – a five channel film installation. In it he uses the stylistic devices of the Western genre, to deconstruct the myth of the founding of America and relate it to the ambitions of recent US foreign policy.

After watching my time lapse footage I started to think back to the beginning of the term when we went to see American Night as a class, and how much I enjoyed the complex multiscreen narrative. Split screens is something that I have been looking at for a while and I am going to try and deconstruct the CCTV footage I have been analysing to try and create some linear and non linear stories, that I could play in a similar way

CCTV stills

These are some still images taken from the CCTV footage of my building. As it is filmed in time-lapse, it plays a different camera angle in each shot. There are several different angles so by the time it films from the same cctv camera again you loose a few seconds of footage. I am not going to try and get my VHS tapes turned into digital film so I can start to edit together some of the scenes, however I do quite like the disjointed feel of the different stories interlinking.

The Arc Show

Last week I went to see the arc show which is an Architecture, Retail and Commercial Lighting show at the Business Design Centre, held every year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDT0TtnSjHg&feature=player_embedded

I found this very useful as I got a chance to speak to some lighting experts about the use of Lighting with CCTV filming and also some information on sensors for future installation ideas.

Analysing CCTV footage

Above is a still image from the film Red Road, which shows Jackie who works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze.

After seeing this film it made me want to start looking at cctv footage of my own to become a real voyeur and to give me the opportunity to start creating stories and characters in my head from what I see on screen. I managed to get hold of some old time lapse footage which is from the building which I live in. I have now started to analyse this footage to see if I notice anything out of the ordinary.

Below is a picture of the tapes that I found. Something strange that I noticed is that tape number 9 is missing as there are 1-10 but no number 9, as if there was some sort of incriminating footage that someone has gotten rid of.

Red Road

Over Christmas I watched an english film called Red Road set in glasgow which is about a CCTV security operator who observes through lots of different security monitors and follows people who live in the area. It is shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light which is the style that I have been trying to capture with my own footage.

Continued Installation

Linking images, found objects with times and dates and with people from the date is crutial to my crime scene investigation to continue to create my narrative around what I find and see at the site.