Yet ANOTHER New Idea for the Identity Project

So, in my last post I talked about wanting to do a piece on how we are constantly changing our identities as we grow older, or even day by day.  Now I want to take this topic and express it in a way that is not so representational, which I think will be easier with the one minute limit we have for this project.  I felt as though my last idea was too straight forward and I feel as though video is a good medium to be metaphorical with.  

I plan to film different spaces from my point of view (with the help of a tripod of course) and using these places to represent the progression of the different stages we go through in our lives.  I would like it to be a commentary on how our environments and surroundings shape and effect who we grow into.  For example, living in San Francisco has changed my perspective on the world around me immensely.  I'll be going into this with a post-modernist mindset; everyone's realities are different. I would really like to capture this feeling of alternate realities and how one person's perspective can seem crazy to another's and vice versa.  I'm planning on using blurring effects for this reason, bringing the camera slowly in and out of focus.  This was inspired by a video piece by Leah Virsik.  She came into my GWAR class the other day and shared a piece with us exploring an old seat cushion that was basically zooming in and out of focus.  It really intrigued me, it was beautiful to me.  As for the audio, I want to use the sound of footsteps to symbolize the personal journeys we're all on, and I'm attracted to the sound one pair of shoes makes on the new laminate flooring in my house.  I also want to include breathing that will change throughout the video, as an allegory for life.  I plan to alter this breathing audio, most likely by speeding it up and slowing it down, so that it almost doesn't even sound human.  This decision was inspired by one of my favorite pieces by my good friend Eden V. Evans called "Condition/Response."

I guess for me personally, this video will be about feeling lost in a time where I need to begin the next chapter in my life.  This is a universal feeling I think we can all tap into... Now just to think of a title.