Film_Post-shower

This film captures my personal routines, rituals, actions and movements post-shower. This is perhaps the most personal actions, for me, that happen within the bathroom. During this time I dry myself and apply my daily moisturizers and steroid cremes as part of my treatment for eczema. Because of this, the bathroom - in terms of showering and bathing - has become more of a chore than an enjoyment for me. Once again I have used the same camera technique (all 3 films were filmed at the same time) and the reflections of the body on the architecture suggest my movement within the bathroom.

Film_Showering

Carrying on from the previous uploaded film, this film captures my act of showering in my bathroom. In the same manner as the previous film, I have reflected myself subtly in the bathroom floor tiles. It is a nice metaphor of the relationship between body and architecture.

Film_Pre-shower

This is the first film I made trying to capture my personal movements, actions and routines when preparing to get in the shower. I have been playing around with camera angles, as you can see, and have covered part of the camera lens. The visual image you can see as the viewer is myself reflected in the bathroom's floor tiles. I think it's quite beautiful reflected - remaining ambiguous or foreign to the viewer, yet familiar in terms of sound perhaps.

Monday 15th August_Diary Entry

My house today in the snow

Filming the Bathroom/Sound in the Bathroom

Filming the bathroom has proven more difficult than I thought! I keep bloomin' forgetting to take my camera with me so so-far I've only managed to film one whole shower and today's preparation for showering (because the battery died just as I climbed in the shower!). I've put it on charge now and I'm going to carry it around with me like it's an extra body part - same with my 'diary'.

Camera Angles_I've been playing around with camera angles in the bathroom. The bathroom, being a personal space, should remain so. I've been trying to film snippets of the bathing experience to keep the bathing/showering/brushing/cleaning (and so on) personal to me.

Sound_will become a valuable tool in the recording of my time in the bathroom. Using visuals will show the viewer my ritual, and so could sound. Sounds are correlative of a movement, action or ritual in the bathroom - this method of recording is quite ambiguous because each bathroom user has their own movements, actions and routines. I'm pretty sure that not many people who listen to my sound-scape will have eczema and this will impact my sound recording quite dramatically.

Video to follow once my camera is charged :)