Note: In terms of
editing, the time-lapse sequence will remain largely unchanged. The proposed changes below add voiceover and
a brief scene after the time-lapse has finished. Therefore, I am not posting a revised cut of
the time-lapse at this time.
The construction time
lapse opens with a zooming shot of the designed structure as rendered on
paper. The consensus from our last
meeting was that the action of the time-laps sequence should remain
voiceover-free. Therefore, some
establishing voice work has to occur in the zooming shot of the designed
structure. We’ll want to say something
like this:
“This doesn’t happen in every design studio, but for this
particular course we had the opportunity to bring a design to life by building
it in the field.
“This would be a group effort by the entire class. And the spirit for such work had been forged
in our first visit to the farm.
“The class selected a single trailhead element from
collective work of the class. It would be this… … … maybe Jurg has an eloquent way of describing the branch structure
“We took advantage of resources from the forest, using the branches
of invasive tree species to create the structure
“We worked together and the roles of team members grew out
of persons diverse set of experiences and skills. We had plant identifiers and gatherers. We had diggers. We had people with enough patients to arrange
thousands of twigs into a cohesive sculpture.
“The sense of reward from the teamwork of construction was
the unexpected surprise of the entire studio effort. And in a way it harkened back to some of what
we had learned in studying the history of agriculture. Before the onslaught of mechanization, the
collective strength of the community was relied upon to get work done: to get the fields plowed, the barns raised,
the harvest gathered.
“We tapped into the benefits of collective effort, and maybe
that is one of the most important lessons of agricultural literacy.
To end this thing, we
will get a shot of our two narrators at the actual structure in Rutgers
Gardens.
What would your
closing thoughts be for that scene?
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