For my final project I want to focus on the idea of people living two different lives openly. The purpose of my project would be to convey the power of personalities and duality. I’d start of with researching my subjects emotions through there daily lives and convey that through the use of my camera angles. Moreover, I’d emphasize the black and white of most personalities. For example, a person who is an accountant for the purpose of a living and but his true passion is a musician. Therefore an account through the week and musician through the weekend. But for the sake of video art, I intend to not be literal with my imagery through the idea of abstraction. Essentially, my intention is to to tell a story through three different people with extreme personality traits. In terms of technical aspects, I would either use a split screen or an overlay of videos through composting depending on the way my research goes.
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Identity can be a great subject matter. We have seen that in the work of Omer Fast, Cheryl Donegan, Steve McQueen. Labor too is an interesting subject (and by this I mean both the labor of the accounting and the music). What is work? What is the difference between the work of a musical performance and the work of a janitor? Work can create a portrait but also a reflection of social structures.