Tonight I tried to use the library’s GoPro but it was blurry (I think due to something on the lens). I then took videos for sound until it began to snow and it was too cold to hold a camera.
I challenged myself to watch the movement on the field, but not follow the ball. It’s different seeing what’s going on around the ball, especially having been a goalie whose job is to always watching the ball.
I decided to sit behind others on the sideline so that the motion of those on the field was split up. It was easier to think of this view as just movement, not a whole game of lacrosse.
While I am seeing from a whole new perspective being a spectator, not a player, these two activities separated me further from the game, allowing me to see from other perspectives.
Ellie -- it's interesting to think that for as long as you've played lacrosse, you've probably never quite observed an active lacrosse field this way. I guess the playing of any sport, at its core, is a series of athletic micro-movements that amount to what our brains process in real time as a logical event. After all, many people liken profound athleticism in motion to an art.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm wondering the best way to represent/capture a scene whose focal point is movement without allowing that central movement to completely distract from the rest of the scene. Does that make sense?
I think your idea of observing the lacrosse field at different times and under different circumstances will yield really interesting results. A sports field is an especially unique area, where it's either completely still and void of life or absolutely teeming with activity. This contrast really illustrates the differences between the area's two states of being, and I look forward to seeing your exploration of them.
ReplyDeleteI likewise think your separation of the movement on the field from the actual act of playing the sport will serve to further underline this dissonance. Once you look at actions as movement without a known cause I think it becomes easier to see the fundamental difference between the field itself in active play and its inactive slumber, not only in that one has more people on it but also in the energy and feeling of the place itself.