I made this video some time ago. It is admittedly a strange video. I constructed it on purpose to be an antidote to normal travel videos. Each clip length is arranged purely by mathematics only. The video also expresses something about the nature of the editing process, which is personal and spontaneous.
On a trip to Sardinia I made a determined effort to take loads of 1 minute clips. Altogether I ended up with 132 1 minute videos of things that interested me.
The first part of the video shows all of these clips, but very fast. The subsequent sections show slower and reduced quantities of images controlled by the natural number 2.718281828459045, which is known as Euler’s Number.
I did this because:
the number is often found in natural processes
I like it
it ensured that there was no human element in deciding clip length, obviously quite the opposite of ‘normal’ proceedings
I left out the clips I felt at that time to be less interesting, increasing the length of the clips remaining by 2.71828 . The video continues like this until one video clip remains in the middle which was at that time my favourite.
The first set of images is all 132, at 0.4 seconds each.
The second has (48.56) 48 images at (1.087) 1 second
The third, (17.86) 18 at (2.955) 3 seconds
The fourth, (6.57) 7 at (8.034) 8 seconds
The fifth, (2.417) 3 at (21.839) 22 seconds
The sixth, (0,889) 1 at (59.36) 59 seconds
And then they decrease again back to 132 images.
This one stays on screen for the longest period. Then it all gets faster again. Anyone else doing it (another editor) would no doubt produce a totally different video depending on their aesthetic spontaneous decisions.
The music is also made up and recorded by myself - 11 spontaneously played and exactly timed piano pieces, also a bit odd and rather atonal in nature.
Weird but that’s the way I wanted it…here's the video:
ps look at the way the number is formed:
2.7 1828 1828 45 90 45
(2 lots of 1828, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, 45 degrees….you can remember it easily)
Euler’s number comes up a lot in signal processing and control systems. Modern devices such as smartphones, computers, radios and TVs do some signal processing.
Modern vehicles have electronic modules which do control calculations involving Euler’s number. Euler’s number also appears in voltage equations for charging, discharging capacitors. Tesla knows!
Physicists and chemists use e to model exponential decay.
Exponential decay occurs in the breakdown of drugs inside us. So if you've taken a pill today its effects built up to a max and then started its decay cycle, both probably related to Euler’s number. Wacko…
I’ll take a look at the Fibonacci Series another day…also found a lot in nature.
Have a nice day
PJ