One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time was inspired by the seemingly endless journey's up Kenan Hall. I noticed how I never grew up around stairs because my house, being a one story house, did not contain any stairs along with most of my schools. Here at Flagler, especially living in Ponce, I am somewhat forced to constantly climb stairs since I am too stubborn to be lazy and go into the elevator. In order to share this, I wanted to show myself in a different environment from the obvious Kenan Hall. Instead I chose to walk all over the stairs in Ponce, Wiley Art Building, and the Library. This gives different locations that have fewer stairs receive the same greif as Kenan's. It emphasizes my hate towards the 4th floor of Kenan along with emphasizing the use of those stairs everyday by myself as well as others. In each video that I took separate times of the day, I wore the same shoes to also show how they also are forced to make the journey throughout the day. In other words, the stairs were the focal point along with the journey they provide. If you notice, when the song begins to kick in, you see my whole body start to go up the Library stairs then it shifts in to a closer scene that shows my back. Here I used unity in order to make it like the viewer was just watching my journey and then joined it without even knowing it, following my every footstep. I also did this in many other cases by just showing my feet while dragging the viewer out again by setting the camera down, and then adding them back in again. I had also used balance which can also tie into scale by setting the camera down on the Art Buildings stairs while walking up them giving the viewer another perspective of the situation. Along with this, I had also used the principle of rhythm by providing some segments of repetition along with the music going to the beat of my walking in certain cases. Each setting was thought out with a particular variation that show a contrast throughout the design.