Final Film Ideas

For my final film I have a couple of different options. I want to make one related to the film experiments I have tried in the past few weeks, but hopefully a bit more upscaled. Because I'm using a normal CANON camera, I can't edit my films as they are all .mov files. This is a bit limiting, I would be able to do a lot more if I could edit the film and have it be more than one continuous shot but I don't have anything else good enough to film with.

• Looking at the ceiling - This film wasn't particularly interesting, but if I went to somewhere with a good ceiling like a cathedral  it could be lovely. However I'm not sure if I'm allowed to film in those places. I probably won't do this one.

• Knitting machine film - I think this one will be hard to do more of because it would be best to have a series of shots edited together, I could make some music by editing together the different crunchy noises of the knitting machine. I would do this one if I had the ability to edit my films, but I don't so I'll have to do something else.

• Movement with a Monopod - when I first did this I thought it had potential but the film didn't come out looking as good as I thought it would. I think this film would work a lot better at night in a place filled with lights of different colours and shapes and strengths that could blur together. The whiteness of the sky is what makes the film not very good, so the darkness of the sky would fix that problem.

I did another short film where the camera was by my feet and upside down. I like this idea, where you get a different viewpoint of the world. However, I'm not sure how to make it a bit more interesting. Really this would work best when walking a dog on the beach or in a scenic area. I could do a walk around town but I don't want the camera to get nicked. I don't think it would be as visually interesting and colourful as I would like my final film to be.

• Colour behind glass - Out of these I preferred the ones uses netting and ink. I think I could upscale this using a bath filled with water, then adding netting of many colours and ink. If my camera is sealed in a jar it would add the distortion and i could move it about safely getting an interesting effect. The camera could also possibility spin around on it's own to get some movement.