This is a short film examining one minute if the 'life' of a CCTV camera situated in Pittodrie Stadium, here in Aberdeen. Well, actually, it's placed on a wall and it spends most of its time looking outwards, so 'inside' is perhaps the wrong word to use. The film has been taken from footage shot with a SONY HD digital video camera on Tuesday February 17, 2009. Most of the sounds are diegetic but some sounds have been sourced from elsewhere. Our task has been to film one specific place in the city, from eight different perspectives (each lasting one minute), with no movement. This one may, or may not, make the 'final cut' but I liked the idea of the CCTV camera (as we've been looking at surveillance this week) looking on in the dark at nothing while thousands of people roar and cheer but metres away in the bright light of the floodlit stadium.

This is a montage of footage (fontage?) that I shot with my digital 'still' camera (in video mode) from my bedroom window. It was inspired by an idea that Raúl Ruiz had proffered in the practical course I took at Aberdeen University last term. He suggested we take various scenes from our shoot and splice them together, all starting with same length but then varying them as time goes on. The footage here is my 'stab' at this experiment. Also included are some non~diegetic sounds of the city and music.

Though this footage is not intended for the Pantoptic Digital Visual Culture course I am currently taking (and which this blog forms a part of), I wanted to capture the city snowscape. and include it purely for reference purposes. The scene was filmed on Thursday 5 February and was edited using iMovie.

This is a collection of footage that I shot with my digital 'still' camera (in video mode) over two days in Aberdeen. Although I haven't settled on my final idea for the Pantoptic Digital Visual Culture course at Aberdeen University, I decided to take advantage of the snow that had been falling fairly heavily (in case I go with this idea). The scene overlooks Pittodrie Stadium and was filmed on Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 February. It has been edited together using iMovie.