I filmed my friend hula hooping today. I have never laughed so much in my life. I hope I can do the experience justice with the editing and final product. She wore a skin tight lycra suit, 'bedazzled' with blue, red and white sequins and also a bear mask/head thing. I was a little worried in the initial stages of filming as she was having trouble hula hooping for more than 2 or 3 seconds. However, this provided some very amusing footage of the time between attempts which I will have to include in the loop piece as they are hilarious. I plan to cut up all the footage so I can limit the amount of time the hoop spends on the floor! 

For my loop project, I am going to film my friend, dressed up in a ridiculous outfit, hula hooping. 

I think this will be interesting because the action of hula hooping kind of reflects and contradicts the idea of a loop at the same time. I guess the aim of hula hooping is to keep doing it for as long as you can, but inevitably (unless you are the worlds best hula hooper) you will muck up and the hoop will stop. By filming the action, I can make it go on forever! 

I want to make it entertaining, hence the ridiculous outfit, to keep the viewer engaged. I will film it from different angles and distances, to get a variety of shots to keep it interesting.

I am unwell at the moment (pretty sure it's not swine flu....) and was unable to go to the critical session today. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't be able to get any feed back and advice on my piece. However, I have been able to show it to my family members today and have got some ideas as to adjustments I need to make. These include slowing a couple of the bubbles down or making it so that there is more of a chance to read more of the text, I think this can be done and still maintain the idea of fast moving, overlapping thoughts that come and go before you can really consider them. I also plan to show some other people, friends mainly, over the weekend and see if there are any common observations and suggestions made which I could work on. I have shown a couple of people in my e-media class over the last week, and have had some responses which pointed out good things, such as the aesthetically pleasing 'stream-like' movement, vibrant colour to engage the viewer, and an interesting concept relating to 'automatic writing'. Some people suggested that the text moves too fast to read, this generally happened before I explained the reasoning for this. However, I understand that as a visual piece it needs to be engaging, hence the decision to make changes previously discussed. Unfortunately, missing out on the crit means that I will have to show it to as many people as possible, to form my own sort of 'crit'.

I am also considering changing the background to something with a little more depth, as I feel it is looking a bit flat at the moment.