By Any Means Necessary: "Breadvision" Writeup

I used my short video as an opportunity to experiment with the first idea I wanted to try in this class, filming from the perspective of an inanimate object.  The sentence I made in class last Thursday focused on one's appreciation of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  It spoke of their ease to make by anyone.   As strange as it may be, this got me to wondering about the life expectancy of the sandwich in question, from being pulled out the bag to being eaten, if it had eyes of its own.  This seemed like the perfect opportunity to hypothesize what life may appear like to a slice of bread before it is eaten. From there, I started planning my video of a sandwich being created then eaten from the sandwich's perspective.

The main things i focused on was finding a way to portray what a sandwich would see, no matter how cramped, or tight the space was.  This video required utilizing the web camera in different situations to imply the bread actually exists, thus creating the bread character itself.  It took a lot of planning and story-boarding to give the impression of "breadvision."

One of the things I am now wondering about is where the eyes of different inanimate objects would be.  For future projects exploring this idea, I will always have to consider how i can make the vision of the object in question believable for the duration of the film.

One thing i wonder about in my video is the sound.  I prefer it without sound, but I do not know if removing the sound from the video is absolutely necessary.  I noticed that the cuts in my video are apparent with sound, and it breaks up the action, no longer making the bread's movement from loaf to table then table to mouth seamless. Is this necessarily a bad thing?  I am not so sure, but I would like some input on it from others.

"Breadvision" With sound....

"Breadvision" Without sound.