The short film is all about the various trips I’ve made to the Salton Sea area in Southern California.
The first iteration of this film had various cameras and formats…but it just didn’t feel right, so I left the editing of the film for maybe 6 months. The the more I thought about it the more I realised I needed to started again it just wan't working.
So this time I decided to only show one camera, my Hasselblad 503cw. On this trip I’m looking at four places in the Salton Sea area, they are Desert Shores, Salton Sea Beach, Salton City and Bombay Beach.
I think when look back though the photographs as I was trying to put this film together I should:
1) Use try to limit the number of cameras I take on a trip with me.
2) Use the same film stock and hopefully the results won’t differ so much.
3) Maybe take more B roll, as I only seem to remember after the event.
A big thanks to Joe Forkan for kindly letting me use his music in the video, it's all taken from his 2020 album ‘Something in the Water’ by Alpha Mule.
https://www.alphamulemusic.com/listen...
Tracks used are as follows:
- Floating Omens (instrumental)
- Moon Dogs (midnight mix)
- Blue Sky Blues (organ)
- Something in the Water (rabbit hole variation)
- Who Are You (Tom Waits)