5x5 # 12 // "Space in Between"

5x5 # 12 // "Space in Between"

So far in my young professional career, I’ve had the opportunity to put together a lot of corporate video and testimonial based work. The general goal for that type of content is rather straightforward: provide the best sounding phrases and sound-bytes from the interviewee in clean, crisp audio.”

This particular 5x5 is similar in nature. I knew I was going to make a corresponding 5x5 to my recent one minute dance video I collaborated on with Fran Tirado. I decided on using unused footage of that shoot along with audio from a thirty minute interview we conducted to form a mico profile on her relationship with dance.

At first, I was hoping the audio would be as polished as much as possible along with the highly selective nature of my chosen sound-bytes. However, I ended up taking the opposite approach. To be honest, my hand was a bit forced. I was very pressed for time and there was no way in hell the audio roughly captured on my phone could be passed as ‘polished.’ The sound quality was too treble, and there was a constant chorus of crickets in the background. My first idea of this scared me a bit. I was afraid it would sound poorly executed and ruin the potential of the video. However, as soon as I pressed play on that audio file, I knew the value of those crickets and my approach immediately pivoted.

Instead of trying to mask the cricket sound in any way, I embraced it, and let it be the backdrop of the entire video with no other audio tracks. In addition, I let go of the pickiness I have with certain talking moments, and let one unedited clip, giggles and mumbles and all, take up the entire video. At the very least, I think it really captures the spirit of that experience.