Late night video tales: campus exploration

[From written notes] My Macbook was overheating therefore I've switched to manual. I wanted to write down a few notes before going to sleep. A couple of semi-ideas (and, I think, semi-interesting ones) have come into my head over the weekend. Maybe it's the freedom from worrying about trying to submit during August (as per agreement with Sian)?!

Here goes:

Video! I hadn't really planned to use this medium. Too time consuming to prepare. But perhaps it can feature, albeit in a small supporting role. Perhaps I would include - where relevant, obviously - a couple of short video-photo montages. This might work for the Architecture crit? Or maybe to show the different types of existing multimodal study within the academy (as proposed in the Lit Review)? 

Hang on! Here's an idea...

In the Lit Review, where I take the reader on a walk through the university's corridor, why don't I accompany this with a video that goes into more detail. The 'viewer' could be led/make their way down a corridor of rooms (or a series of corridors in the university), dropping into different rooms where multimodal activity is taking place. Basically, a photographic/filmic representation of what's in the text, but so much richer.

Here are some quick thoughts on how this might work:

• I'll use still images rather than video recording as it easier, as an amateur, to achieve high quality with stills rather than moving image. I can use the Ken Burns effect where appropriate - i.e. in the corridor - to give the effect of movement.
  
• The audio/soundtrack though will be 'in motion' rather than static. The soundtrack could include a heavy door opening at the university's entrance, the sound of footsteps in the different corridors (and any other ambient noise), a musician practising, students presenting and so on.
  
• I could collect images from across the UoE campus to reflect relevant disciplines. It might begin with the door to the university (perhaps the same as the signifier image for the Lit Review of which this would be a component part). I could use a series of corridors to reflect different parts of the campus/subject disciplines.
  
• The video would need to start and end in a relevant and interesting way. This is so that it works as a stand-alone artefact, as well as part of an assemblage within the Lit Review. Perhaps there's something from the student presentation that would be relevant in drawing the presentation to a close? 
• This 'campus exploration' - hmm, nice use of the constellation metaphor [maybe within Information on front page of website I decribe how there are a number of video explorations of some key themes that particularly lend themselves to a multimodal approach - for another day] - would be embedded within the text (but if its in Vimeo, also hosted on a new or my existing channel).  The title of the video should match words that I use within the accompanying text.