Before taking this course, I told myself that I wanted to create a simple storyline music video for a song that I wrote. After doing experimental videos for this class, however, I have decided that I don’t want just another cliche music video. I want to make an experimental cliche video that incorporates the themes and concepts that I have done in this class, primarily, the concept of time.
In my Project 2, I played around with the dissonance between video and audio where the audio is played before the actual scene. In project 3, I would like to create an unrealistic effect by shooting myself lipsyncing where the song is played twice as fast. During the editing, video is slowed down in half to compensate for the audio being sped up. The end result is a film where everything is in slow-motion except for the song and my mouth.
Another aspect of this music video is masking. Just like the Project 3, I would mask myself in different areas while creating a “mask within a mask”. For example, I would mask myself on a picture frame, then I would enter the scene and remove the picture frame. While I’m holding the picture frame, the camera zooms out and we realize that the clip itself is inside another video. The purpose is this is to force the audience to keep guess which part is the ‘real’ world’.
This image is a snapshot of the video that inspired me to create the audio video dissonance
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6w48Li-bQIw/maxresdefault.jpg
Here is the video link:
This is a really good mirror shot. Instead of having something real on the mirror, I would like to mask another video on top of the mirror.
https://www.slrlounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/quadrant-system-every-frame-a-painting-drive-two-shot.jpg
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The approach sounds good. Taking a step back from it all, you are putting yourself in a “meta” position: examining all aspects of what is in the video and how the structure of the “music video” functions in culture. Artists from Anri Sala to Cory Arcangel to Pippilotti Rist to Rodney Graham to Jacolby Satterwhite others all use music and in some reference music videos in their work.
I’ll make a side and seemingly contradictory note here: it might be hard to distinguish a brilliant music video, a brilliant art work, a brilliant advertisement and a brilliant home video. I say this to point out that the definitions of what is art and what is a music video or home craft is very blurry. We encourage in this class not using music or not making an advertisement or not making a music video, so that you are focusing on the visual medium (and not losing sight of that while thinking about the product, or letting images fall secondary to a song).
Take a look at music videos (and some are “just” music videos) made by artists:
http://artfcity.com/2008/10/09/8-top-music-videos-made-by-artists-the-classics/
http://artfcity.com/2008/10/13/10-top-music-videos-made-by-artists-contemporary-edition/