Static Camera Capturing Dynamic Subject
When light and wind from outside converge with fluid clothing of passengers, a static camera amplified the movements with the help of static objects (eg. knees).
Isolation of Speed
The slow-motion in between two fast-forwarded videos highlights the driver who is seldom noticed/ thanked by the dispersing passengers.
Camera Placed in an Unexpected Location
From this angle, the projection of street views overlaps the tram’s internal conditions temporarily, then disperse as the reflection changes.
Framing
By making use of the tram’s frame and the bridge, several contrasts of speed are found as people and vehicles converge and disperse.
Convergence and dispersion take shifts infinitely in our dense city with complex transportation network. Seldom do we observe the transition from a distance no matter how often are we involved in them. Tram is unique, for its double-decked quality and the permeability contributed to vast openings. A panoramic elevated street view is obtained by filming on the upper floor of the tram. Vertically, the only frame indicates an axis of symmetry when two groups of pedestrian cross the road, and when vehicles on two sides go in opposite directions. Horizontally, people walking on the bridge at constant speed become a parameter to examine the speed of moving objects beneath. Together, the perpendicular frame opens an analytical eye for us to understand circulation and interface in urban scale holistically.
Cropping
As the components of the tram’s frame are relatively dark, they divert the audience’s attention to the transition from the lane to the stop: a process that leads to convergence of people and tram.
Wong Mei Ting, Valerie
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The unexpected location is very interesting as if the camera is in a kaleidoscope. The framing cleverly forms a multi-screen also have potential to frame the east and west bound of the road system in the city. There are documentaries that filmed to proof some kind of behaviors of people in the city. By the way you may see tram drivers talk to each other when the 2 opposite trams move near!