I've shown a few friends the video and asked them to tell me what they thought it was about, i can tell they don't have creative minds as some were saying "i don't get it" and "i don't understand". GRRR it annoyed me slightly as it makes me slightly concerned that people won't get our intention, will have to make sure that we present it well and explain confidently our intentions for the piece.
By asking my friends who didn't know the intention or ideas behind the piece I was hoping for some positive feedback and some varied thoughts as to what they thought it was about, shame I didn't receive any.
Hopefully seen as we are presenting it to a class of Art Students who CAN think outside the box, we will get some better reactions and feedback off them (woooo art students rule)
Wednesday 31 January 2007
Un Chien Andalou
Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is a sixteen-minute surrealist film made in France in 1929, by writer/director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.
The film has no "plot", in the normal sense of the word. Its structure is nonlinear. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association. The film is a series of apparently unrelated, and at times potentially offensive, scenes that attempt to shock the viewer. It also features surprising camera angles and other film tricks.
The film has no "plot", in the normal sense of the word. Its structure is nonlinear. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association. The film is a series of apparently unrelated, and at times potentially offensive, scenes that attempt to shock the viewer. It also features surprising camera angles and other film tricks.
The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye (actually a close-up of a calf's eye) is slit by a razor. The man with the razor is played by Buñuel himself. Subsequent scenes have less explicit violence:
- an androgynous blind woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with her cane
- a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (Dalí plays one of the priests in this scene)
- a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge. The French phrase "ants in the palms," (which means that someone is "itching" to kill) is shown literally.
- a woman's armpit hair attaches itself to a man's face.
There are two central characters, a man and a woman, who appear in both scenes, but they are unnamed. The chronology of the film is disjointed; jumping from "once upon a time" to "eight years later," etc.
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum's early works explore the world beneath the flesh.This is best illustrated in her 'Corps etranger' (literally 'foreign body') - a video featuring the use of two routinely used invasive medical imaging processes: endoscopy in which fibre optics scan the upper part of the digestive system, and coloscopy for the colon and intestines.
'The viewing chamber is a pure white cylinder pierced by two slender apertures through which the viewer enters. A narrow margin between [the circular floor-mounted] screen and wall allows the viewer to stand at the perimeter of the image, back facing the wall, in the classic pose of a victim. Movement is severely restricted, and communal proximity to other viewers also complicates the experience of intimacy.
This sense of overwhelming intimacy is further heightened by a soundtrack of her own breath and heartbeat that accompanies the video through the soft black acoustic fabric lining. She invites the viewer to a close up view of her own body - from the dry landscape that is her skin to the timeless, primitive, and unchanged glistening cavernous world beneath. Every orifice of this virgin territory is explored in turn by the camera's 'imperialistic' eye.
Tuesday 30 January 2007
FINAL VIDEO!
Wooooooooooo finally!
We finally finished our video today by putting the last few bits of sound to it. I recorded some sounds on my piano last night for the ending and we decided on the one which we felt fit the best.
So here it is.......
Now we need to consider the projection.
Carol brought the ball in today and we projected onto it and it looked really good, but obviously we need to try it with our own video and own footage to make sure that is what we want. But i do think that it looked amazing.
One day towards the end of this week, we are going to come in and experiment just to make sure we know what angles and height we need to hang the ball from and such.
Anyways......
Enjoy.
We finally finished our video today by putting the last few bits of sound to it. I recorded some sounds on my piano last night for the ending and we decided on the one which we felt fit the best.
So here it is.......
Now we need to consider the projection.
Carol brought the ball in today and we projected onto it and it looked really good, but obviously we need to try it with our own video and own footage to make sure that is what we want. But i do think that it looked amazing.
One day towards the end of this week, we are going to come in and experiment just to make sure we know what angles and height we need to hang the ball from and such.
Anyways......
Enjoy.
Saturday 27 January 2007
IMAGINATION, Dead Imagine and Model for Stage and Screen
IMAGINATION, Dead Imagine, is a video and sculpture from 1991.
An androgynous head is projected as if contained within a minimalist cube. Sounds of the head slowly breathing fill the space. The head is serene, waiting. Suddenly a substance pours over it from all five sides, drenching it in what appears to be a bodily fluid. The spectator wants to turn away but cannot. Horror at the repulsive nature of the substance is replaced by fascination with the beauty of the 'overwhelming natural energies'.
Judith Barry's description of her piece IMAGINATION, Dead Imagine, a 10 foot high, internal projection video cube that symbolizes the struggle and powerlessness of lived experience. And yet, despite the gross victimisation that Barry's video represents, seeing it triggers in us a sense of sublime beauty and fascination. Barry plays on this all too familiar power relationship that occurs daily along the lines of gender, social rank, finance, or the law and in the workplace, on the street or at home. IMAGINATION, Dead Imagine characterizes the environment of abuse and tolerance in which many people, in order to survive, must live.
It shows how poorly our individual bodies and psyches are served through the totalising systems of Modernism, statistics, or commerce. By projecting the image of a human head into an unforgiving form Barry asserts that as individuals we are trapped in a power struggle we cannot win and the spectacle of which overwhelms us to the point of tolerance and submission.
For me this piece also suggests how we live trapped in a box, influenced and restrained by social rules and demands on our beauty and self. This is something we will never escape and will ALWAYS be around, forever dominating our lives and the media.
The box to me symbolises this entrapment and being unable to escape the grasps of this.
In our video the 'character' could be perceived as someone being trapped by their own thoughts and haunted by their own demons, that such an installation could have been perfect to show our piece on/in.
An androgynous head is projected as if contained within a minimalist cube. Sounds of the head slowly breathing fill the space. The head is serene, waiting. Suddenly a substance pours over it from all five sides, drenching it in what appears to be a bodily fluid. The spectator wants to turn away but cannot. Horror at the repulsive nature of the substance is replaced by fascination with the beauty of the 'overwhelming natural energies'.
Judith Barry's description of her piece IMAGINATION, Dead Imagine, a 10 foot high, internal projection video cube that symbolizes the struggle and powerlessness of lived experience. And yet, despite the gross victimisation that Barry's video represents, seeing it triggers in us a sense of sublime beauty and fascination. Barry plays on this all too familiar power relationship that occurs daily along the lines of gender, social rank, finance, or the law and in the workplace, on the street or at home. IMAGINATION, Dead Imagine characterizes the environment of abuse and tolerance in which many people, in order to survive, must live.
It shows how poorly our individual bodies and psyches are served through the totalising systems of Modernism, statistics, or commerce. By projecting the image of a human head into an unforgiving form Barry asserts that as individuals we are trapped in a power struggle we cannot win and the spectacle of which overwhelms us to the point of tolerance and submission.
For me this piece also suggests how we live trapped in a box, influenced and restrained by social rules and demands on our beauty and self. This is something we will never escape and will ALWAYS be around, forever dominating our lives and the media.
The box to me symbolises this entrapment and being unable to escape the grasps of this.
In our video the 'character' could be perceived as someone being trapped by their own thoughts and haunted by their own demons, that such an installation could have been perfect to show our piece on/in.
Judith Barry
Judith Barry is one of the pioneers of the rapidly expanding field of video installation. The ideas, forms, and techniques found in her work precede the recent proliferation of new bodies of art work exploiting the potential of digital media and video technologies, in an extended mix of video installation, performance strategies, and narrative experimentation. She is also an extensively innovative exhibition designer. Barry’s video installations stand out from othersin her field.
Here I have found some images documenting her projection work, I thought these were some relevant and interesting ways to project and install her video pieces, it just shows that nothing seems to be limited where the actual projection is concerned. Here, the images are projected into a stairwell, a large metal cargo box and free standing projection which makes you feel as though you can become part of the artwork.
Here I have found some images documenting her projection work, I thought these were some relevant and interesting ways to project and install her video pieces, it just shows that nothing seems to be limited where the actual projection is concerned. Here, the images are projected into a stairwell, a large metal cargo box and free standing projection which makes you feel as though you can become part of the artwork.
Friday 26 January 2007
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Wodiczko is internationally renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. Since the late eighties, he has developed a series of nomadic instruments for both homeless and immigrant operators that function as implements for survival, communication, empowerment, and healing.
Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates art by projecting images upon the monumental architecture found in large cities. His ephemeral projection pieces last only a night or two, but they reclaim the city streets as places for discussion and heated debate. In the image directly above, the artist projected a photograph upon the domed Centro Cultural Theatre of Tijuana. The domed theater is where a documentary tracing the history of Mexican civilization is screened daily. The projection's theme was the undocumented Mexican workers who risk their lives to cross into the United States in search of jobs. The image used in the projection shows a Mexican worker with his hands clasped behind his head, as if being arrested by La Migra.
Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates art by projecting images upon the monumental architecture found in large cities. His ephemeral projection pieces last only a night or two, but they reclaim the city streets as places for discussion and heated debate. In the image directly above, the artist projected a photograph upon the domed Centro Cultural Theatre of Tijuana. The domed theater is where a documentary tracing the history of Mexican civilization is screened daily. The projection's theme was the undocumented Mexican workers who risk their lives to cross into the United States in search of jobs. The image used in the projection shows a Mexican worker with his hands clasped behind his head, as if being arrested by La Migra.
Uri Dotan
Uri Dotan's 'Disintegrating Ball' series offers up a volley ball that in one video peels apart with the peeled fragments disappearing into space only to later reappear and form the ball whole once again. When the ball peels it reveals a sphere of tangled strings, cords…delineations. Superimposed onto the sphere, before and after peeling, are images from the street, from the intersection, outside Dotan’s studio window. The soundtrack for the piece includes Dotan’s interviews with people on the street. Dotan goes down from his studio, tape recorder in hand, to bridge, one imagines, the distance between image and soul. He asks the people, or more likely completely different people, he has been observing, “how do you feel about crossing the street?” The question sounds suspiciously ridiculous, slightly pathetic. There is a vaguely hostile tone to the answers: “Got to get to the other side don’t you;” “I don’t give hoot one way or another;” “It gets me from point A to point B;” “I don’t feel anything at all. I don’t like this part of the street because it is filled with these awful bumps.” One guesses Dotan is closer to these souls when studying the light reflected from their bodies as it appears on his computer monitor than he is while in these non-conversations. The comments are part of the six channel sound piece which goes on for eight hours or so as the ball falls apart and comes together, over and over again in the looping video that spans just a few minutes.
The idea of this projection is similar to the effect we wish to achieve for the overall piece. Once Carol has made the maquette which we can project onto then we can bring it in and experiment with the projector in the studio to see if this will work or not.
The idea of this projection is similar to the effect we wish to achieve for the overall piece. Once Carol has made the maquette which we can project onto then we can bring it in and experiment with the projector in the studio to see if this will work or not.
Latest on the Video
Today we were in the Mac Lab trying to add more sounds to the piece. After watching it over and over AND OVER we decided some bits really didn't fit in to what we wanted and today we have cut the end off the video. We will be adding more footage into it but Carol needs to re-film some certain footage which we wish to end with.
This also gives us the weekend to figure out if anything else needs chopping or changing around.
We successfully managed to get my piano music onto the piece which is good. There is a lot of piano track on this piece but I think they fit in really well and create this atmospheric aura about the piece.
While we were in today I was looking at the wall where we had posted our research from the previous lesson with Kit and comparing some of the video pieces to what we have made. Ours seems really structured and defined and has more of a continuous narrative throughout the piece, whereas some of the video artist's pieces are somewhat abstract and left to the imagination.
I guess this doesn't really matter though, as what is art? What constitutes to art? Surely as these pieces have been made to be projected in a gallery situation?
Hopefully no one can argue that we have produced isn't art, they can question our intentions and motives, but I am confident that we can jusity our piece when we have to give the presentation.
Thursday 25 January 2007
Mould Maquette
This is the mould Carol has been making for our piece to be projected on. She has papier-mached onto an exercise ball, and we're hoping to paint it white and suspend it down off a ceiling and project onto.We can bring it into the Tuesdays lesson and see how well or how bad it works and doesn't work. Hopefully it will as i think it is a really good idea.
Video with some sound...
This is what we have so far in terms of sound...
Some bits i do really like other bits I personally think are too cliche, like the Sigur Ross track at the end of the video, I really don't like it at all. It's hard working with other people in this respect as you all have different tastes and ideas of what sounds right and what doesn't, and you don't want to offend the others by disagreeing all the time.
Got in from Uni about and hour and a half ago and since then i've recorded some piano and guitar riffs and suspense music for the video (if they fit in that is), some camera sounds, match striking sounds and some gentle piano and guitar sounds.
I had taken them in on CD today but for some reason the CD wouldn't load the tracks into Audacity, file error, or something which was annoying.
Anyway hopefully tomorrow we can get well on the way to having the finished piece.
Wednesday 24 January 2007
Tony Oursler
Eye in the Sky 1997 Mixed media video installation
Without a body or face to convey expression, Eye in the Sky is reduced to a single eye compulsively watching the rapidly changing channels on a television screen that is reflected in its iris. As the eye consumes endless fragments of weather broadcasts, game shows, and commercials, we imagine what effects popular culture's obsession with television has on our psyches. Like some strange creature from a science fiction film or surrealist dream sequence, Oursler's disembodied eye is a metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age.
Oursler's work has similarities to our own piece.
We were wanting to project onto a similar lense or rounded shape for the installation as this fits in perfectly with our project. As our piece is all about the mind, the mind's eye and eye's, seeing, imagining, day-dreaming it would be good to reflect this in its projection, the rounded shape or the lense shape would reflect this really well.
Carol's going to cover a work out ball with papier-mache and bring it in for Tuesday lesson to see if it will work. Hopefully it will as i feel it would add to the overall outcome of the project.
Without a body or face to convey expression, Eye in the Sky is reduced to a single eye compulsively watching the rapidly changing channels on a television screen that is reflected in its iris. As the eye consumes endless fragments of weather broadcasts, game shows, and commercials, we imagine what effects popular culture's obsession with television has on our psyches. Like some strange creature from a science fiction film or surrealist dream sequence, Oursler's disembodied eye is a metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age.
Oursler's work has similarities to our own piece.
We were wanting to project onto a similar lense or rounded shape for the installation as this fits in perfectly with our project. As our piece is all about the mind, the mind's eye and eye's, seeing, imagining, day-dreaming it would be good to reflect this in its projection, the rounded shape or the lense shape would reflect this really well.
Carol's going to cover a work out ball with papier-mache and bring it in for Tuesday lesson to see if it will work. Hopefully it will as i feel it would add to the overall outcome of the project.
Sounds
Last night and this morning i have been messing around on the piano and my guitar trying to make some eerie music for our film, well more atmospheric really.
Been recording it in Audacity and trying certain effects; changing speeds and lowering the pitch to see what kind of effects that does to the original recordings. I think i have some good clips and have played them over the video and they fit in, just hope the others will agree as i think they tie in nicely.
Been recording it in Audacity and trying certain effects; changing speeds and lowering the pitch to see what kind of effects that does to the original recordings. I think i have some good clips and have played them over the video and they fit in, just hope the others will agree as i think they tie in nicely.
Tuesday 23 January 2007
Final Piece...So Far
This is our video so far...
in fact we have been in today and altered it slightly.
it's good to work in a group as you have three sets of opinions, (well in our case anyway).
Today we have been messing around with the sound, which Robyn seemed to handle fine, she seemed more confident to take over playing with it.
Before she arrived into college Carol and I spent a good 30 minutes collecting some sounds, we went to the library and took out some Sound FX CDs which turned out to be useless, but the thought was there.
Managed to find a lot on certain Sound FX websites which was lucky.
I'm going to do some recording at home using Audacity as I cant make it in on Thursday.
Hopefully (fingers crossed) we may have a final piece by the end of next week.
Rob told us how to convert the file to a shared 'WEB' file so it would compress it and enable us to put it on YouTube which was good.
Am going to spend these next few days finding some artists which relate to the project and document them in here.
Saturday 20 January 2007
Toooooo BIG
Unfortunately...
Working on I-Movies has added so much excess memory to our videos that it is proving almost impossible to save them on anything.
Fortunately Carol has a portable 250GB hard-drive from her home computer which we have been saving on to.
However the video so far, 4 mintues of footage won't upload to YouTube as it is exceeding the 100MB limit.
The video is 11.5GB which is HUGE! It won't fit on anything at that size.
So don't really know what we are meant to do?
Bit rubbish really as this will be a problem when we come to present them.
Working on I-Movies has added so much excess memory to our videos that it is proving almost impossible to save them on anything.
Fortunately Carol has a portable 250GB hard-drive from her home computer which we have been saving on to.
However the video so far, 4 mintues of footage won't upload to YouTube as it is exceeding the 100MB limit.
The video is 11.5GB which is HUGE! It won't fit on anything at that size.
So don't really know what we are meant to do?
Bit rubbish really as this will be a problem when we come to present them.
Update...
All week we have been working on the video which seems to be coming along nicely.
There have been no problems working within a 3 as it has been nice to bounce ideas off each other. Had you been working alone, then you might not get the chance to ask anyone how they think the piece looks.
We have come to 4 minutes of footage now, having cut out some of the earlier pieces we had as we felt they didnt fit in
It's good to always go back and re-assess the piece as you may find that days later, you feel differently about it.
Intially we did have a certain path which we wished to pursue which we have still stuck to...but the ideas have just envolved as we've gone all. In a way I feel it's a good thing as your ideas constantly chop and change anyway.
We've stuck to the mind and ideas and thoughts that may go through your mind.
However the video could be open to loads of different interpretations...other themes that could be denoted from it are suicide, dreaming, hallucination, death.
I do have my own thoughts surrounding the video but I think I will keep them to myself for now.
Here is some extra footage that each of us have collected.
Unfortunately the Mac's again have wrecked my camera and I lost my raw footage.
There have been no problems working within a 3 as it has been nice to bounce ideas off each other. Had you been working alone, then you might not get the chance to ask anyone how they think the piece looks.
We have come to 4 minutes of footage now, having cut out some of the earlier pieces we had as we felt they didnt fit in
It's good to always go back and re-assess the piece as you may find that days later, you feel differently about it.
Intially we did have a certain path which we wished to pursue which we have still stuck to...but the ideas have just envolved as we've gone all. In a way I feel it's a good thing as your ideas constantly chop and change anyway.
We've stuck to the mind and ideas and thoughts that may go through your mind.
However the video could be open to loads of different interpretations...other themes that could be denoted from it are suicide, dreaming, hallucination, death.
I do have my own thoughts surrounding the video but I think I will keep them to myself for now.
Here is some extra footage that each of us have collected.
Unfortunately the Mac's again have wrecked my camera and I lost my raw footage.
Thursday 18 January 2007
Extra Footage
Got myself a YouTube account which is being really slow to upload my footage...
Getting a bit annoying might leave it for the night now.
Getting a bit annoying might leave it for the night now.
Tuesday 16 January 2007
1 down 5 to go...
FINALLY the technology was on our side today!
Managed to get Carols videos onto the Macs using her own portable hard-drive (haha)
but it worked so thats the main thing!
We have one minute of footage now which looks good. Obviously may need some tweaking here and there.
Going to take Wednesday off to gather some more footage and relax seen as we have been in from 9.30 both days this week.
For some reason the video wouldn't load to YouTube but i blame the Macs for that as the internet connection was playing up in the Mac Suite most of today. Will just have to try again when we go back in on Thursday.
It's weird to think that we only have 1 minute of footage actually because it took a good 4 hours to get it right and it seemed like it was much longer than a minute.
It's fine though i am enjoying the project and working in a three is fine, we dont crowd each other or disagree on anything which is good as i feared it may have been too crowded to work with that amount of people.
Anyway tomorrows plan is to collect more footage and crack on again with it on Thursday.
Managed to get Carols videos onto the Macs using her own portable hard-drive (haha)
but it worked so thats the main thing!
We have one minute of footage now which looks good. Obviously may need some tweaking here and there.
Going to take Wednesday off to gather some more footage and relax seen as we have been in from 9.30 both days this week.
For some reason the video wouldn't load to YouTube but i blame the Macs for that as the internet connection was playing up in the Mac Suite most of today. Will just have to try again when we go back in on Thursday.
It's weird to think that we only have 1 minute of footage actually because it took a good 4 hours to get it right and it seemed like it was much longer than a minute.
It's fine though i am enjoying the project and working in a three is fine, we dont crowd each other or disagree on anything which is good as i feared it may have been too crowded to work with that amount of people.
Anyway tomorrows plan is to collect more footage and crack on again with it on Thursday.
Monday 15 January 2007
Eye
An art installation in which a stripped CRT monitor sits in an empty room displaying an eyeball. The sound is a single heartbeat slowed down to a machine-like noise and plays in time with the flickering interference of the screen. I found this video on YouTube.... it starts in a very similiar way to which ours will start and contains images and sounds which we are incorporating into our piece.
Technology!
Today we decided to meet as a group at Uni to start adding our stills and films to I-Movie! Easier said than done.
My footage went onto the Macs with no hassle as did Robyn's stills and footage. Then we tried to upload Carol's files from her Digi-Camorder only to find that the Macs wouldn't play any of it. We went to the library and burned the files from the PC onto a CD-RW disc and USB pen to see if this would work just in case it was a problem with the downloading from the Camcorder. It didn't work, so we have some footage saved onto one of the Macs at the moment. Have mailed Rob to see if he can shed any light on the matter and Carol is tonight going to save the files in a different format to see if that will work. If not...then goodness knows?
Am also annoyed because the Macs buggered my Memory Card in my Digi-Cam and i lost the films i had recorded which i was going to upload onto my blog. I guess i will have to do it all again at some point this evening.....grrrrrr!
My footage went onto the Macs with no hassle as did Robyn's stills and footage. Then we tried to upload Carol's files from her Digi-Camorder only to find that the Macs wouldn't play any of it. We went to the library and burned the files from the PC onto a CD-RW disc and USB pen to see if this would work just in case it was a problem with the downloading from the Camcorder. It didn't work, so we have some footage saved onto one of the Macs at the moment. Have mailed Rob to see if he can shed any light on the matter and Carol is tonight going to save the files in a different format to see if that will work. If not...then goodness knows?
Am also annoyed because the Macs buggered my Memory Card in my Digi-Cam and i lost the films i had recorded which i was going to upload onto my blog. I guess i will have to do it all again at some point this evening.....grrrrrr!
Sunday 14 January 2007
Update...
Finally met with Carol and Robyn to discuss our ideas and seems we all want to do a similar theme which worked out well.
We will be exploring the human brain and 'mind's eye' and looking into to the mind.
We all agreed to gather some material for Monday and meet again at Uni to start putting together the video.
Tonight i'm going to do some filming in the dark to get some atmospheric shots and will upload the videos on here tomorrow at some point.
We will be exploring the human brain and 'mind's eye' and looking into to the mind.
We all agreed to gather some material for Monday and meet again at Uni to start putting together the video.
Tonight i'm going to do some filming in the dark to get some atmospheric shots and will upload the videos on here tomorrow at some point.
Wednesday 10 January 2007
Human Body
This is a video tracing the human body in MRI scan formations.....
If we pursue the path of humans, then we can explore using inanimate ojects to represent sounds and occurances within the body. Carol and Robyn have both explored lava lamps to create effects such a flowing blood in veins and such.
This video i really liked. It represents the body as a landscape and explores not only imagery but also sounds which relate to an urban alternative to the body...
such as breathing and the nose, represented with wind and tunnels. It is a very abstract and obsure video but i like it.
Extra Research and Thoughts.....
Two short video pieces i found on youtube by CHARTOL, exploring colours and emotions. Watching these films causes you to be really entranced and you are capsulated into the imagery.
Still havent met as a group as Carol is still ill, hopefully we are meeting tomorrow to discuss further our thought and ideas.
Downloaded Audacity today and have been messing around with sounds and the effects you can create on there, luckily i still remember everything we were taught in the lesson with Kit which is good.
Just REALLY want to start the project properly as I feel that my blog cant be made specific to the project without consultation with the other group members. But we still have four weeks left to make the 6 minute piece of film which is good.
human emotions
A video i found on you tube exploring emotions through the use of colour. I like this idea, how our moods can be changed and altered through colours. How some colours can depress us or others make us feel happy.
This is an aspect i would like to include in our video piece.
RED - The colour of love, lust, passion, romance, urgency and blood, red is the evocative colour of life itself. In many cultures, red is used ritualistically in ceremonies that relate to creating and sustaining life. Red can be used to create excitement or invoke urgency while the deeper hues create a chic and polished look.
PURPLE - From Roman senators to Indian Maharajahs, to modern European royalty, purple has been the color of power, mysticism, eroticism and spirituality since the dawn of time. Purple is a healing color related to mind, body and soul. Deep purple tones need light colors or white space as contrast, to bring out the power of the colour.
BLUE - Blue is a divine color that resonates with beauty, purity and wisdom. It can help ease tensions and promote tranquillity. Blue tones can project an image of power, professionalism, credibility and TRUST. Underlying silver metallic can create a deep ice feel. Oceanic, vast, infinite.
GREEN - The color green foretells the coming of spring. The growth of sustenance, food, and the continuance of LIFE. Nurturing, natural green tones represent education, adventure and ecology. Contrast with black for shadows to show height, depth, density, lushness of growth.
YELLOW - Representing the radiance, light and warmth of the sun's life-giving energy is yellow. Bright, happy, exciting, enthousiastic and dynamic. Use varying tones of yellow, gold and orange to express these feelings! Almost good enough to eat.
Monday 8 January 2007
videos
This is a video I found on youtube. Even though the imagery is very repetitive, i like the atmospherical theme to the video. How simple use of lighting and sound can create a sense of mystery and suspense in the viewers eyes.
This is a video by the same artist, I find this video really impressive how you are deceived into thinking that the person's throat has been slit open and blood is pouring from their neck. It might not have the most thought provoking content but the idea of misconceiving the audience is a good technique.
It has been a long time since I last blogged but I have been thinking a lot over the xmas period about ideas that I can use for our video.
There are three of us working together in a group and we are meeting tomorrow to discuss ideas.
We have previously talked about some sketchy ideas about what we might want to produce for our video....
seem to be an occuring themes from our discussions.
Ideas such as the The Body, People, Emotions, Humans
I have been looking on the internet at independant artists websites and youtube typing in words such as 'lonely' 'sad' 'isolated' 'human emotion' to view what other people have made and try to collect more of a visual idea.
Having looked at Carol's blog I can really see some interesting ideas forming from her behalf and cant wait to meet tomorrow to start the process of making this video.
I have a few ideas of my own such as using metaphorical images to denote other meanings, kind of making the video and content ambigious. Obviously there doesnt want to be a narrative to the video so I feel we must be careful to try not to 'story-tell' but hopefully once we have all sat down and discussed then we can move forward and start collecting video footage and sounds to go with the images.
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