this is exactly the kind of film I was hoping for when I made the assignment. Better than mine! (long since deleted). I like the sound slices-of-time; ends with "love you.."
It took about four days total for the blooming and dying. Actually six, but I screwed up the first blooms because I didn't realize that lilies tend to bloom at night and I was filming during the day. So I had to move them to a better lit location to catch the rest. Well, I got to learn something about horticulture, look at that.
are like time lapse. The camera only records for about a second every ten minutes. If your camera has a setting for it, it's a good tool for when you want to do things like, say, sleep or something instead of having to watch and edit down hours of footage or switch tapes. The sound is pretty much naturally extracted, except that I cut the night audio out when it was silent and I shortened the video to a third of a second each cut while keeping the audio intact, so that I could fit the video within the 2MB limit. I'm glad you liked it!
Funny, while I was shooting, life was just going on, the cam was set on intervals and the sounds just meshed into something strange. But now I watch the lilies bloom and die and it is kind of sad. It wasn't my intention. Just life cycling, that was the intention. I'm glad you feel better, though.
