Video Tag

Video-recording capabilities of mobile phones and downward prices of video equipment it is possible to consider the cost of recording techniques as becoming increasingly negligible. Depending on the technique employed the resulting recordings are of sufficient quality for internet presentation and beyond.

Camera equipment is treated as expendable and filmed sequences are not precious.
What are the opportunities this gives to a filmmaker?
So, for a particular financial outlay what is the resulting haul?
Perhaps can consider approaches more similar to fishing.

One route developed from these principles could be 'Video Tag'.

Video Tag concept combines:
1 Low cost video (and audio) recorder
2 Game of 'tag'/'had'/ 'it'

The recording device is primed and a sound/image stream results from the recorder being passed from one person to the next in the same way as schoolchildren playing the game 'tag'.

A note is clearly attached asking the last person to return the recorder by phoning the filmmaker once the hard disk/ tape/ memory/ DVD/ or battery etc has run-out.

Pond Fishing
Use this experimental technique in a closed community such as college or company where the parameters can be set. This should ensure a higher rate of return of the recording equipment but may lack some spontaniety if there are group expectations about the results.

Wheelie Fishing
To increase picture stability the recorder can be attached to a trolley!

Night Fishing
As an art-based project this can be attempted in open environments where the results will probably be more varied but may capture unexpected speech, behaviour, and events. Anticipate a lot of misses. And few equipment returns.

Project using disposable cameras