Sunday, June 25, 2006

starting work on first archival footage

I have just started working with the first instalment of footage from Peter Heathwood. I have worked my way through the first 6 hours of footage recording relevant clips to mini DV tape and the digitising into my laptop. I have also created contact sheets of one image per video clip to act as a visual reminder of the clips that I have selected, allowing me to plan for my final installation edit, and also still images that I might want to create and print. Below are four out of the eleven I have so far created. One clip that I first encountered through the BBC on this day section of their web site, where a man in Derry in 1972(the year I was born, and only one month from my birthday) leads a group of people holding a dying young man shot by scared, young, British troops. This man walks ahead of the other five people, waving a blood stained white hanky at the British troops that they have to walk through to get the casualty to hospital. I think this man cut out from his surrounding could be a major visual element in my final installation.