wander the woods

The idea for this project came to me while taking several walks through the forest myself. I noticed that, though i was wandering through the same forest over and over again, my individual perception of it was always a different one.

Visual and auditory footage, recorded and shot in Golovec, form the base for further work.

In order to recreate the perceived atmosphere and represent the subjective impressions gathered whilst this experience this footage was combined in an alienated presentation of the forest.

The conposition consists of several elements and types of materials that are connected and mutally influencing each other.

The film footage was edited in Adobe Premiere to the beat of choosen atmospheric music. The montaged sequences were then modified in Adobe After Effects ith effects and filters, that are providing an alienation of the footage whilst enhancing its atmosphere. Specific parameter of theses effects are connected to an audio amplitude, generated from characteristic forest noises and thus controlled by them. In that way the sound influence the resulting image. Special effects like dust particles, snow, fog and sun rays target to alienate the visual footage in order to enhance the individual ambience and thus put the subjective perception in focus.

The development of the film took place during my semester abroad in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It was created in the winter semester 2018/19 (October 2018 – January 2019) in the framework of the course »video and postproduction«, taught by assistant professor Andrej Kamnik, at the Faculty of the Fine Arts, Univerza v Ljubljana.