Reenactment
Original
For this video reenactment I chose Samuel Beckett's "Not I" video from 1973. Reenacting this video wasn't hard but trying to get the same lighting and angle of the video the same as the original was. In the original video the actress is wearing black makeup around her mouth and a black cloth with a hole is covering the rest of her face so that only her mouth is highlighted in the video. I don't have and didn't want to use black makeup by putting it around my mouth, instead I taped my video in a dark room with a flash light highlighting my mouth. It didn't quite work as I had hoped it would, but with the added affects I feel that it did a pretty good job. In order to get the correct angle from the original video I would have had more of my own chin showing because I didn't wear any sort of makeup, so I felt that I should just keep the camera at a straight shot on my mouth. Because I'm not wearing any makeup I had to create my own mask in Photoshop to put over the video. Creating it wasn't hard but putting it on the video and making sure that my mouth still shows was a little hard because it took a lot of adjustments to get it where I wanted it in order to show my entire mouth throughout the entire video.
