GLAMOR GIRL,An Experimental Digital Pinhole Video by David Ellis

OK, This is a work in progress!( Please be patient with the long lead-in and lead-out actually ending at about 4min. 30 sec.!) This is a sweet little digital pinhole video short. The editing is a little raw but I like the feel of it. I shot this with a Sony Digital Handycam using Hi 8 tape. I adapted the camera with a pinhole created using a small piece of aluminum pieplate and lit my subject with only a small moving flashlight. It was quite a challenge to hand-hold the camera in one hand and the flashlight in the other while panning and zooming. I love the quality created by the low light and resulting pixelization. If it had been a film, of course, we would have seen a very grainy image (much preferred!) but here we see the small square pixels instead when viewing on a full screen. The effect is actually very interesting and honest. I am interested in exploring the "flaws" that usually we are encouraged to avoid or hide! The original tape was made with a live soundtrack from a tape of the blues piece "Glamour Girl" playing as I shot it, but I had to re-introduce a new sound track in editing and actually liked this version by Duke Robillard from the album Duke's Blues....Duke, if you see this....well...uh.. please let me. ok? know!!

Hope you enjoy this quirky video vignette!

David Ellis

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