One surprise that I definitely had during my drift experience would have to be fascination that I had gained with nature. It’s hard to explain, but when you’re walking for hours at a time looking for sounds and images to capture; you become completely conscious of your senses. I remember that on my first drift when it was quite difficult to find sounds for at least an hour or so I was completely shocked at the viscous natural energy that was coming from the world. Without a warm roof over my head in a time period that I would most definitely normally not be outside; I felt like an animal scrounging for food in terrible weather. Only I was scrounging for sounds and footage to shoot which had me observing the tiniest details and listening as hard as I could for the right direction to walk.
Another surprise that I had when doing my drifts would have to be the fact that many people were extremely cordial in helping me out with my project. Although I looked like a crazy person most of the time that I was out there holding my microphones in the pouring snow; every single person that I asked to record permitted me. I came up to a couple workers who were grinding salt and shoveling and they were more than willing to allow me to do my recordings. Also I even went inside a store and told them that I was looking to record some sounds. Here one of the workers even offered to allow me to record him juggling some pins. They didn’t hassle me or try to sell me anything and these drifts honestly offered me a more optimistic view of people in general.
Finally the third surprise I had on my drifts was how my images looked when I finally had them uploaded. I wasn’t very happy with the work that I had recorded and felt extremely amateurish since I was working with a simple digital camera. When I got back however I was really impressed with the quality of video that the camera was able to capture and also how effective the movements I created were.
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