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P R O J E C T **O N E

inspiration media type="youtube" key="2ImcKwcU1qU" height="340" width="560" media type="youtube" key="y-NA8dypL88" height="340" width="560" goal - place type in a way that somewhat integrates in into its surrounds (as seen above).** =__process__=
 * poem draf**t


 * final poem**

__**story board ideas**__ first idea... scrapped. hockey.. team spirit/bonding... the love of sport... then it switched to volleyball... then the idea of shooting my grandmothers home ...

**__raw footage__ grandma's house! media type="youtube" key="_IGSfSP0sWQ" height="344" width="425" **

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it was very dark in the home.. the quality of video is not the best. however, there were accidental aesthetics that I REALLY loved... and I think suited this video best as a vintage, retro - ish movie..

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lots of other tests... but WAY too big for uploading...

=MEMORIES:=

=rational:= After hundreds of visits to my grandmothers home, I have grown to love every inch of it. The vintage wallpapers, hardwood floors, clocks, rooms, lights and collections of things: photos, model cars, ships etc.. were fantastic inspiration for this video celebrating the memories and lives of all who have lived in this home.

My grandmother, now the soul resident of this semidetached Toronto home, is surrounded by the memories of her life and family. I wanted to document it in a way that focuses on how the home is a vault of these recollections, and there is no way to rid these memories of the four brick walls which enclose forever.

I shot the video with a camera that was not compatible with, basically any computer, however in the end, the grain from the low quality footage really boosted the overall aesthetic I was looking for. This accidental treatment of the footage creates a mood which reflects the time period in which this home was decorated.

I wanted to take "still" shots (no tripod haha) of her home, focusing on the words I had written in the poem. Candid moments of my Grandma moving around the house we're used. She did not know she was being filmed, however was very excited to see herself in the old photographs and video.


 * some slightly interesting facts about the video (that inspired me to use particular footage)**

• the dresser the porcelain dog sat on was my mothers bedside table as a child • the chair the words "sleep soundly" on was my grandfathers favourite chair. • the photographs are of my grandmother and grandfather. • One photograph shows a man she was engaged to who's plane was shot down by a german plane in WWII. • the letter is from the mother of the her fiance telling my grandmother of his death.

__FINAL YOUTUBE:__ media type="youtube" key="G0GennPVCyQ" height="344" width="425" song: meet me in st. louis - 'boy next door" instrumental (sung by judy garland, my grandmothers favourite female singer) poem: written by amber-lee campbell

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