Left Video
Middle Video
Right Video
* To get the obtain the best viewing experience open up all three pages, dedicate them to a screen (left video = left screen) and select 'full screen.' Now play every video at the same time.
Evaluation
Despite the video not playing in an installation, I feel the three videos, when playing together, impact just as well. With an accurately worked out script I was able to time everything perfectly. For example, the key swapping from one screen to another only worked because it was well planned and timed correctly.
The main criticism of the videos is getting them to play back at the same time. If I were to have all three clips in one video and upload them to 'YouTube' so that they could be displayed on this blog , the 'full screen' option would have only covered one screen, instead of the desired three.
Apart from this set back, I believe the video is an interesting concept, that, due to in depth planning and timing, was executed successfully.
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Friday, 20 May 2011
Final Coursework Piece & Script Used
3 Screens
(Middle Screen) Time 01:00
My main focus of my A2 coarsework was to experiment with interpreting surrealism into different forms of media.
In this final piece I wanted to experiment with manipulating video along with how the viewer would react.
To do this I want to focus on the theologian John Locke. On the topic of protestation, he came up with the concept of a man in a locked room.
(Right Screen) Time 01:00
In the story the man in the room believes he can walk out of the room at any time as he is unaware that the room is locked and therefore he stayed in the room.
The problem is, if the room was revealed to the man as locked with no escape it would drive him insane, so therefore it he is left unaware.
(Left Screen)Time 02:00
This is similar to life, if we found out our lives where predestined our freewill would have been taken from us and we’d have no control over our actions as an exterior force has already predetermined it.
Reveal Key
Originally, in the build up to this final piece this video was going to be played in an installation, of which I would have a physical room where, you, the viewer, would sit and the door you came into would be locked and the key would later be fed into the room so at the end of the video the view could get out.
Throw Key to Middle Screen
(Middle Screen) Time --
Instead, I want you to focus on the subtlaties of your everyday life, the routines, getting up, going to work or school. The way we watch television, and are spoon fed on how to dress, and think and interact with others. This alone is telling us how to live our lives. To think, we are caught on CCTV cameras around 300 times a day. In my experients, and which was outlined in my proposal, I wanted to manipulate my work using different forms of media and for example, in the stop motion pieces I work on I am litterally controlling every shot, one frame at a time.
I’m not suggesting an extior being has power to control how every move, but ask yourself with all the media manipulation influencing our actions, can you really just get up and walk out of that door, or are you trapped…
Just something to think about.
Monday, 16 May 2011
Script Used In Essay Response Video
- Quote: “Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” Man Ray
- Proposal: Michal Gondry, Mystery Guitar Man
- Man Ray: was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He is best described a modernist (Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism) who contributed majorly to the Dada and surrealist movement. He also experimented with photograms, which he called ‘Rayographs.’ However, he is best known for his heavily stylised and impassive portraits.
- Photo – Tears: real tears = incontrovertible sign of grief, then glass tears a sign of insincerity. It was shot like it was because in the 1920’s Man Ray was attentive to signs and fragments: lips, eyes and profiles.
- This first photo was taken in the early 80’s of a relative who was in Paris at the time; I wanted to use an old photo to help relate the portrait to Man Ray’s photographs. This was meant to capture an element of Man Rays flare and was styled similar to how he worked.
- Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected associations and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
- Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter best known for his striking and bizarre images in his work. He worked alongside Man Ray in the surrealist movement and is best known work is ‘The Persistence of Memory.’ His imagination allowed him to create different worlds within his paintings which is comparable to Anthony Green. He is an English contemporary realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses.
- Introduce swirled photo.
- Another main inspiration Magritte, another surrealist painter well known for his witty and thought provoking paintings: “Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” Main philosophy for stop motion
- Modern day Magritte is comparable to Banksy (look right photo)
- Quote again “there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information”
- Conclusion.
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Google Images
Wikipedia
The Photo Book
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/man_ray.html#ixzz1MC5GEni7
- Proposal: Michal Gondry, Mystery Guitar Man
- Man Ray: was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He is best described a modernist (Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism) who contributed majorly to the Dada and surrealist movement. He also experimented with photograms, which he called ‘Rayographs.’ However, he is best known for his heavily stylised and impassive portraits.
- Photo – Tears: real tears = incontrovertible sign of grief, then glass tears a sign of insincerity. It was shot like it was because in the 1920’s Man Ray was attentive to signs and fragments: lips, eyes and profiles.
- This first photo was taken in the early 80’s of a relative who was in Paris at the time; I wanted to use an old photo to help relate the portrait to Man Ray’s photographs. This was meant to capture an element of Man Rays flare and was styled similar to how he worked.
- Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected associations and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
- Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter best known for his striking and bizarre images in his work. He worked alongside Man Ray in the surrealist movement and is best known work is ‘The Persistence of Memory.’ His imagination allowed him to create different worlds within his paintings which is comparable to Anthony Green. He is an English contemporary realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses.
- Introduce swirled photo.
- Another main inspiration Magritte, another surrealist painter well known for his witty and thought provoking paintings: “Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” Main philosophy for stop motion
- Modern day Magritte is comparable to Banksy (look right photo)
- Quote again “there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information”
- Conclusion.
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Google Images
Wikipedia
The Photo Book
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/man_ray.html#ixzz1MC5GEni7
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Evaluation
The final outcome of my contextual essay response turned out slightly different to what I had originally propose.
After trail and error of filming the essay I found having to continuously stop the video to change something (e.g. a tie) meant I couldn't get into what I was saying, and once I got comfortable again I had to stop filming.
Also with too much going on in one video it would distract the viewer to what is being said.
However, after sticking to a clean white background video I believe I successfully delivered a complex response to the contextual essay, but also I expanded my knowledge of the artists and photographers that influence my work which, in turn, will help my work grow in future projects.
After trail and error of filming the essay I found having to continuously stop the video to change something (e.g. a tie) meant I couldn't get into what I was saying, and once I got comfortable again I had to stop filming.
Also with too much going on in one video it would distract the viewer to what is being said.
However, after sticking to a clean white background video I believe I successfully delivered a complex response to the contextual essay, but also I expanded my knowledge of the artists and photographers that influence my work which, in turn, will help my work grow in future projects.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Video Storyboard
To make sure I stay on topic and know what to say next I have drafted up a storyboard of the video:
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