Symbolic Camera

My symbolic camera epitomizes the ‘art’ of capturing yourself in the twenty-first century: the selfie stick. It also demonstrates my journey into visual anthropology. Perhaps naively, before studying visual anthropology, I assumed that the camera only captured everything in front of it. Since learning more about the sub discipline I’ve come to understand that the …

Reflection on Filming I

Capturing an event: South Water Filming the trip to Southern Water was challenging. I had been once before filming the event to mentally make note of the location, the kinds of things that I’d want to film and the potential problems I could face while filming. I had a friend, Jasper, aid me in filming …

Reflection on Filming II

Plurality of Roles: Herne Bay Beach Clean The second event that I filmed was a field trip to Herne bay for a beach plastics clean up. This recording opportunity highlighted a new observation for me which was the plurality of roles in an event such as this. Being present at the clean up made me …

Whiteboard Plan

Frame Analysis – Reference Points

In this interview with Miguel, I encountered a funny moment with angles and levels. I held the camera myself and would glance at the preview to see whether the shot was still working, this was to enable an informal conversation. However upon reviewing the footage I found that using an unusal reference point such as …

Frame Analysis – Lighting

When I interviewed Alex at her house, there wasn't much natural lighting and her house only had two big windows, East-facing. The day happened to be cloudy and natural light, as a resource was limited and disappeared as the day went on. We had to rely on room lighting: ...which didn't add too much and …