WNDW
a documentary of Vancouver's artists ft. Lexie Owen
WNDW is an itinerant artist-run space that inhabits residential windows in the City of Vancouver with a focus on supporting the work of emerging artists, writers and curators. It aims to bring contemporary art out of self-selecting “high-culture” areas and into the quotidian life of the residential street. The project partners emerging contemporary artists with neighborhood residents who take on the role of gallerist for the duration of the exhibition.
This is a team video documentary that was created by a team of 5. Our client, Lexie Owen, was connected with us through the course IAT 344: Moving Images. She requested we help create a documentary for her project WNDW that ran for 2 years. We took turns in directing as it is important to integrate the teams idea as a whole.
Team: Emily Chow, Rachel Bae, Sherry Liao, and Farouk Nnajiofor.
Process
an overview of what I did for the project
Ideation
After researching about our client and her project, I was intrigued with her projects as they all had a similar theme, community. From there I made a collage of images that would fit with the tone of warmth and capture the feeling of home.
Filming with constraints
In the span of 2 months, we as a team filmed our client's project that was active for only 2 weeks. During each day of filming the WNDW event (total of 3 days), I managed each member through communicating what they need to essentially capture.
Feedback with client
I contentiously communicate with the client, receiving feedback from her which gave us better insight on what she was looking for, her idea, and how to incorporate it into the finalized film.
Post-Processing
Finally, with re-shoots, feedback, and discussions with the team, I got to work on editing the final film.
Putting together the sound and videos into one. The sound files had been already planned and recorded before the editing, making the process easier.
Post-Processing
As students from SIAT's Moving Images class, my team and another group shared our student documentary at an event called Hubbub 9 that was hosted by CityStudio Vancouver. The event was to showcase students work to the CityStudio team, City of Vancouver staff, faculty and instructors from their partner schools and others in the innovation community. I got to talk and explain my vision of the project to many individuals .
