Our brief for the week was to make a video on Baltic Signs, however I totally missed
that there was a title to the project however some members of the group misheard
the title as being Baltic Science.
This seemed a more apt and intriguing title.
We were divided into groups (a relatively simple task that
took a while) however once placed in a group with three other Lithuanian
students we were then shown the film and digital media equipment we could use
to make the video. It was like being shown a gangsters hoard of weaponry with
camera equipment to shoot anything I’d turning up with just the drawing
equipment I could fit in my luggage. Not intimidated by the equipment I
borrowed a camera with a lens long enough to see into the future and set off
into some nearby woodlands to start playing.
The Lithuanian students were either Graphics or Digital
Media students, so technology was their friend, they knew the language of their
complicated toys. I on the other hand had bought some plastic to create some
drypoint matrices and decided to try and capture some snippets of surface data
from some of the many exquisitely intriguing trees. Our skills began to fuse as
the sound of the drypoint tool on the plate drew the Lithuanian students to
record the sound of what I was doing.
With a few finished matrices in hand I explained the
intaglio print process to the Lithuanian students and we experimented with
holding the plastic matrices in front of the camera lens to shoot stills and
video before heading over to the beach to undertake a similar process.
Filming at the beach - Photo credit David Baldry
23/09/2015
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