Video Installation - Ideas, Mind Map, Planning, Video & Evaluation
Theme: Memory Idea 1: Swimming as a child (Footage of children cliff jumping, mixed with underwater footage). A near-death experience (drowning). [too difficult to shoot because of weather conditions]
Idea 2: Children on the playground while parents talk to each other on the side without paying any attention to them (neglect).
Idea 3: Interviews with adults about their childhood in Communist Bulgaria in the early and mid 80s (change). Shown on two screens with one playing footage from events from political marches and parades with the subtitles for the interviews and the other showing people being interviewed with a speech instead of what they are saying. The sound is not in sync with the interviews and the stories of games from the childhood clash with the images of the angry crowds and political propaganda shown on the other screen. As children, the people being interviewed were oblivious of the political situation (crisis) the country faced.
The sound in the video is uneven. The interviews are too quiet because that's how the Zoom recorder was set that way and I did not notice. Increasing the volume of the interviews decreased the quality of the audio and the ambient sounds were distracting.
