At this point I started to relate the assignment to myself as a traveller through space over time! Travelling from Denmark to New Zealand some months ago I literally time travelled because of the 12 hour time difference between the countries. Now, living in Wellington, I have adapted to the new time zone. But....what I suddenly realised was that every day I still in a way time travel! As part of my day I am not only aware of the local Wellington time, but also of the local Danish time. My connection to my home in Denmark is partly through mail correspondence and texting, but mainly I prefer having direct visual and auditive conversations using Skype. To get in touch with people, I therefore need to be very aware of the time difference between my two homes. I still get overwhelmed by the visual day and night difference of “my” two spaces when I Skype, and usually I actually find myself in a state of mind that places me in an undefined time and place between.
In this assignment I therefore want to explore how to capture the sense of double time and space by time travel!
My idea is to actually visualise my two homes simultaneously in their context of staggered time by using time-lapse techniques. When I Skype with people at home, my personal environment in a way split in two. To somehow visualise the complete sense of my personal surroundings, I will attempt to simultaneously make an urban full day/night time-lapse view from my home in the capital of New Zealand as well as from my home -the capital of Denmark. My idea is to as well frame my computer screen in the view of Wellington city. At the exact time of shooting I will let a friend in Denmark use Skype to record the city view of Copenhagen. What I hope to achieve is then a compressed time lapse documentary of live Wellington urban time through my window with the appearance of live Copenhagen urban time on the computer screen in the same framing. I really hope that this could work, but as I am aware of the possible problems about shooting the computer screen in shift of daylight conditions, reflections etc. clearly enough to see what happens, I have made some additional research on possible Skype video recording software as well. Finally It would be great to record and use the live city sounds from both locations for the overall experience of time difference in the video.
-A list of different video recording software for skype
-If necessary, I would probably choose SuperTinTin for windows "Records all audio and video streams including Skype voice mail and screen sharing video"
