For this third project Gabi, Maxie-Lew and I decided that we wanted to emulate the season of fall as much as we possibly could. We’re going to be projecting on pumpkins, hay, lots of leaves, and possibly a sachet (if it’s allowed). To engage with the viewer’s senses other than sight, we’ll have a fan blowing to create common gusts of wind often felt during the autumn season and make the setting a little bit cooler, and apple cider to engage the sense of taste. We also want to have leaves scattered around to also engage the sense of touch. There’s some sort of fall/pumpkin fest going on in Hyde Park and most of our footage is going to be taken there as it’s the most accurate representation of the season as we can achieve in Florida. The videos filmed will include lots of fall images like hay bails and a pumpkin picking patch, and locals enjoying all the pre-made festivities. We also are going to try to get home movies from us durring the fall seaosn. I also wanted to contribute some of my old home footage from back in Virginia to add more to the whole installation.
We wanted to go with the idea of encapsulating autumn as a whole for several reasons. The first is that the most popular state’s students from UT are from are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Connecticut (I work in admissions I promise this is verified). All of the listed states have all four seasons, something that the UT student body doesn’t get to fully experience here in Florida. Sure it gets a little colder as “winter” approaches, but it’s nothing compared to autumn up north. Floridians don’t get to experience the leaves changing colors and falling off the trees, riding on an actual trailer filled with hay bails out to a field to pick a pumpkin that will later be carved and displayed outside for Halloween, or warm apple cider and apple donuts as the temperature continues to drop but isn’t unbearable like winter. The smell and the actual feeling of fall is something that is so hard to replace, we wanted to try our best and bring it here. The second main reason we chose to focus on autumn is that all three of us are actually from up north and gave up fall when we chose to come to school down here. As much as we love Florida, we decided to get a little nostalgic and focus in on memories, feelings, and emotions from home.
Timeline:
10/26: Project Proposal Due
10/28: Film in Hyde Park
10/29: Edit
11/2: Practice Installation Set Up
11/3: Tweak Installation
11/8: Final Project Set Up
11/9: Project Due
Materials:
-Camera
-Pumpkins
-Hay
-Sachet
-Fake Leaves
-Fan
-Apple Cider
-Computer
-Hyde Park Festival
-Video Editing Software
-Copyright Free Music
-Large Room (for viewing and installing