Liquid Music (Extract)

JON WOZENCROFT writes: “There is no processing whatsoever with any of the footage in either of the films, it is all as “seen through the lens“, and I did lots of observational research of the movement of water before committing anything to film. And a lot of it is extreme close-up and very difficult to film because in many cases I’m literally a few inches from the water, so tripod was impossible. I actually did arm-exercises to avoid camera shake. Also you could say that some of the richness of the “Liquid Music“ footage comes thanks to the short-lived Hi-8 format and the particular colour balance and emulsion of Fuji film stock. “Liquid Music“ was edited on an Avid, which was by and large very expensive and so editorial decisions had to be carefully considered beforehand. “Suffolk Symphony“ was edited on a Mac under the time pressure we had in Aug 2009, but the editing was much more intuitive in some ways, because trial and error could be employ