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This video is from work I did concurrently with my Fall upper-division cultural geography class. The exercise entailed choosing "a landscape" and observing it from different vantage points, and specifically from a car or other motorized vehicle, from a walk, and from a run or comparable human-powered transport (skateboard, bike, push scooter). The point was to explore in a basic sense how different vantage points subjectively produce different landscapes. Students were asked to record their observation with still photographs, video, or sketches (disconcertingly they all drove themselves while doing this; Anne-Marie did the driving for me).
The soundtrack was mixed from Apple Loops for Soundtrack 1.5. Though not an intention of the video, because of the electronic portion of the sound, it does underscore class discussions of the role of other senses in how we perceive and remember landscapes. The electronic soundtrack recontextualizes the images, making them appear more dramatic and drawing attention to their constructed-ness. The shift to location sound at the end "naturalizes" the final images, providing a different "sound view" of the landscape(s).
"Drive Run Walk" was shot on a Sony DCR-HC96 Handycam.
