This is a video combining video footage of wax into nature and layering the imagery on top of each other by changing the opaqueness of the video. This is just an experimentation. I have also added in sound effects from the 4 min communal random number track I made with 4 other people.
I don't feel this is a successful piece due to you not being able to tell what the wax is. It either needs to be fully visible or parts of it need to be cropped out. I kind of wanting to give them effect that aliens were taking over the landscape. Or the idea that there are invisible energies around that we can't see, quote fantastical and surreal. I don't think this worked though. I want to play around more with sound and record my own voice. I'd like to get out and get more footage too. This was just playing around with footage I already had. Plan moving forward is to go to St Catherine's Hill to get some footage and experiment more with wax and get better shots of the wax and play around more with editing. What intrigues me about St Catherine's Hill is the a story about the History of it. Read below the research I found, taken from http://ukleylinetours.blogspot.com/2012/11/st-catherines-hill-christchurch-dorset.html:
" St Catherine's hill is part of a local folk story. The story goes that in 1094 after the destruction of the Christchurch Priory the local Bishop decided that he would move the church to St Catherine's hill. After moving all the materials to the hill they mysteriously disappeared and reappeared on the site that the priory is now built on. They were moved back, and again the same happened. Eventually the Bishop gave in and built the church on the site where the materials kept ending up at, namely the current day location of Christchurch Priory.
This is not the only tale of this happening throughout history. The story is common and usually based around locations where pagan sites have been adapted for roman or christian use, the eventual location of the site usually ending up in the middle of a druid tree henge. The argument being that the locals wanted to continue to worship on the same site so they moved the stones and materials back overnight until eventually the new temple was built on the old pagan one. This legend being applied to St Catherine's hill would suggest that the locals placed more significance on the site the church is now built on than they did St Catherine's Hill. As I will explain shortly these two sites are on the same Ley Lines, so maybe the current site was purely deemed more practical for worship than St Catherine's Hill or maybe the energy is more suitable for worship?"
My intention is to research the place in more detail and attempt to create a site specific video in response.
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