La Mia Venezia
Since returning from my hometown in the summer of 2019, I have spent the entire period of the epidemic in Venice. I saw the Venice that was occupied by tourists before the epidemic, I experienced the acqua granda in Venice with Venetians at the end of 2019, I saw the Venice that was like an empty city during the epidemic, I felt the lingering effects of the tourism industry in Venice for the past two years, and now I am experiencing the "revenge tourism" that the end of the pandemic brought to Venice. After the pandemic, Venice is like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, and the city's various businesses have bottomed out to usher in their own rebirth.
As someone who has experienced the whole situation in Venice, I hope to use my project to present a reborn Venice. The idea is to make a short film in the documentary genre. The short film will be developed mainly in the form of oral narratives (interviews). It will chronicle the rebirth of a city rich in history(Venice), after acqua granda(2019) and the "empty city"(lockdown) effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic, through interviews with a gondolier. Although with the development of technology and medicine, the impact of COVID on humans may not be so far from reaching the scale of the Black Death hundreds of years ago. But in the case of Venice during the COVID epidemic, for which almost all public events were canceled, the Black Death as the historical backdrop of the redeemer festival (to give thanks for the end of the terrible plague of 1576) was still held as scheduled in 2021, from which we can still see its profound impact on Venice that time cannot wash away.
The global pandemic not only affected the health of the population, but also dealt a deadly blow to the tourism industry on which today's Venice depends. Today, COVID-19 is slowly becoming a thing of the past, but its effects are also slowly worsening. Therefore, the project aims to use the human angle as an entry point through interviews to present the changes in Venice that have been transformed by the epidemic.
The project, shot between August and September 2022, consists of an interview with gondolier Ferruccio Dalla Pietà, interspersed with video fragments shot in Venice and images and videos of the empty city of Venice during Acqua Granda 2019 and the 2020 epidemic, thus developing a reflection on the rebirth and future of the city. The main equipment used to shoot the project was a Sony a7r3 camera and a RODE videomic NTG. iZotope RX 8, Adobe After Effects 2020, and Final Cut Pro were the main software used to process the audio and video.
In the post-processing process, the main obstacle encountered was the large amount of wind noise caused by the wind along the Grand Canal during the filming of the interviews, which was difficult to remove in post-production, so the overall audio was not perfect in my opinion.
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