a 2 minute experimental video

I went to the Telegraph Hill with Sayuri and recorded some short videos on 18th November. The initial idea of the recording is to collect some random scenes for expressing feelings during a mountaineering simulation.

some words I wrote down before recording:

When we arrived at the Telegraph Hill, the weather is not good, the sky is grey and the wind is heavy. Before I climbed up the hill, I try to recall my twice mountain climbing experiences in China when I was in middle school. I remembered the most impressive thing during the mountain climbing is the sky and plants and the changing scenery. The changing of visual field is a really wonderful thing, it brings feelings of freedom.

I used a retro video recorder app on my phone to record the videos and did some experiments by changing the camera type, filters and camera lens.

This is a filter called 'Flash C', the cool colour is in relation to the cold weather.

This interesting camera lens is called fisheye, it has the effect of convex deformation, 

which offers a good way to express the changing of views during mountaineering.

I used a video editing software called final cut pro x to make the short videos into a 2 minute video clip. 

Through changing the colours and the shapes of scenes as well as cutting and speeding up the fragmented videos, I want to express the diversity of view points during climbing mountains.

Please click here to watch this video: https://zzhan012.wixsite.com/mysite-1/mountneering