For video capture, I planned on attempting to make film of only objects that are blurred by any possible means or by light reflected on or through water. This being a rainy part of year, I hoped to find some interesting images and I did. I went on my first walk around 8 pm for only two hours. Most of the footage was useless, but at the end of my walk it began to rain (hence, why I ended that one early). I didn't realize it at the time, but as I was filming a street light with a pitch black background a drop of rain fell upon the lens. This created an interesting effect and image.
I then decided to go on another walk to gather more footage of this unusual image, and to my delight, I managed to find more of this unique play on light several days later on an additional video walk. One shot shows the rain falling straight down, and will be used in the final video to make clear these orbs are not effects but simply water falling upon the lens.
For sound capture, I simply decided to focus on one sound that drove me nuts during my first drift. I focused on traffic and swelling chatter. To my surprise, the only indoor location on my drift was a beautiful room full of vibrant chatter. Later on, while editing, I discovered I had in fact captured someone playing piano in the back ground and have chosen to use that track, with several others from both indoor chatter and outdoor chatter together. I hope this will form an eerie ghostlike tone.
Traffic sounds were easy enough to capture everywhere I went, because after all it is downtown Milwaukee. Water sounds to go with the rainy video was a bit harder since the days I went for sounds it was completely dry outside.
Overall, I did the two walks the same but different. I first went left after a block, then right after another. This formed a zig zag like pattern. I did the opposite on the second walk, going right, then left. I, of course, started at a different place, so as to criss cross the two lines and form an X.
