Beware as neither one of us are video editors. We hope to obtain further Final Cut skills to eventually go back and clean up this piece substantially.

Without further ado….the video.

Die My Darling from Calli Higgins on Vimeo.

While chopping vegetables, she cuts herself and we watch blood flow out of her finger, staining the water. She sucks on her finger and takes another deep breath. After throwing the vegetables into the pan to sauté, she enters her steaming bath. We watch her relax, a jarring cut between uncomfortable and abrupt chopping scenes to long, relaxed, out of focused motions as she washes herself and shaves her legs.  An overhead shot sees her relax, only to open her eyes and suddenly realize that the window is open. She quickly jumps up in the bath and slams in shut. Putting on a robe (as seen through the foggy bathroom mirror), she enters the kitchen to begin eating her dinner. Close up’s show her cutting and spearing her vegetables, closely putting them into her mouth. Finally relaxed, a wide shot shows her eating her dinner, plate in hand, while flipping through a magazine. As the camera pans out, we see the foot of a dead man sticking out from a closet. We suddenly realize that she is not paranoid because someone is following her, she is paranoid because we, the viewer, are aware of what she is doing. The final shot shows her looking directly into the camera, smiling, recognizing that we are both aware of each other’s presence. “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads begins to play as credits are rolled.

Project by Calli Higgins, Lucas Zavala, Lisa Maria, Krystal Banzon and Sarah Jenny.

Assignment:

In this lab, you’ll learn how to connect a variable resistor to a microcontroller and read it as an analog input. You’ll be able to read changing conditions from the physical world and convert them to changing variables in a program.

Work: