Measure - Apnea

Measure - Apnea from Kris Smart on Vimeo.


"University Graphics & Media project:

Title: Measure

This project was very lose, we were given the title 'measure' and were told to take it however we liked.

I got the idea in my head that i wanted to hold my breath for around 4 mins underwater in a bath tub, i began practicing and managed to hold my breath for around 3 and a half minutes. The plan was to hold my breath well an entire song played measuring my breath hold against with the length of a song.
I got my brother (age 13) to film - unfortunately i couldn't hold my breath underwater any longer than 2mins and my bro's filming as you might of expected was a little... aha.

Anyway i decided that visually one constant clip would always be very boring and decided to make a shortened edited version. Looking at what we had shot with the 2 minute takes it just had no direction - just me in a bath tub holding my breath. Boring.

At the last minute i told my gf she would have to be the breath holder and that i would film as i was the only one who knew how to use the camera.

Could still do with a little more work but I'm lazy!

Edited with Final Cut and typography done in motion - couldn't get my head round the more interesting type effects in AE.. Plus I'm lazy!

Originally shot in color but the white balance was not correctly set and it looked pretty drab so i just flipped it to gray scale.


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