We woke up at 7 local time, which still feels like 5 to us, Taru and Frej picked us up at 8 and brought us to Nakkila where the college is. The college shares it's building with Villilä, a movie studio. When we arrived, the first thing we did was get a tour I the facilities: Editing suites where Sean will mostly working this week and the massive studio where the rest of us will be doing most of our work. We met Marko Luukkonen, alumni of the school who is now very prolific filmmaker here in Finland, known for documentary and art films, he showed us examples of his work which was really interesting. Marko was brought in for the week to run a project with us and some of the students from the college, we were given pieces of audio and asked to put images to them. He encouraged artful shots, testing the limits of exposure and subject matter, not necessarily "proper" technical shots as are encouraged in college usually, but we use our technical knowledge to create the experimental shots. Me and Aaron were put in a team with one of the Finnish students Mikael, we all had a similar idea for the video, to use unsettling shots to go with the unsettling vocal track. Workstations were set up around the studio space for trying out different techniques to use in videos, there was one with an aquarium, a Red Scarlet high-speed camera was set up in front of it, the aquarium was filled with water and then we dropped black and green food colouring into it. When filmed at high speed these images can be slowed down for a great, almost smokey effect. The other workstation me and Aaron worked at today was my favourite, we were given a film strip with 25 frames on it (1second of video), we were encouraged to paint it, scratch it with blades, whatever we want, these frames would then all be photographed and put together as a second of video, I attempted to do an animation, which is a first for me. After college we went to the beach!!
The snow covered sand and ice-flows at the shore were the biggest reminder today that we're not in Galway anymore!
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