In this reading, the author talks a lot about how people started creating videos to make a difference in the society. They were expressing their political views, per se, through the video. They made videos the way they would want to see the world. As people didn’t have access to the expensive cameras most of the video tappers used cheap cameras but still it didn’t stop them from not making videos anymore. When the video art blew up a lot of youth started making comments that the easel art was dead. I really liked the article but found some things to disagree with. I don’t think that by creating a new form of art the old one disappears. I believe that it just completes one another. Painting is still valuable so are the sculptures. Videos and film are just more fun and interesting to some people, like myself.
Omer Fast Exhibition
Last Thursday I attended the Omer Fast exhibition at the James Cohan gallery. The first thing that caught my attention about this exhibition was the the space that was used for it, although it might’ve seen like your typical gallery space, something about this one gave me this sense of intimacy, i don’t know what exactly gave me it this effect, maybe the work that was been shown to us? the way in which it was displayed? or the material that the videos themselves dealt with, or even the visuals that were been shown to us. Either way, this made my experience much more enjoyable in my opinion. If this was what they were aiming for, they successfully achieved it. As I walked in and began to watch the first video, just within the very first few minutes of watching just a small portion of it, I instantly came to realize that the material was going to very emotional and although this was also successfully portrayed by Omer to us, it made me think of the personal value that this had for Fast himself. After watching this i was somewhat confused because as focused as i was trying to understand the story line i believe i was way more focused in trying to figure out which part was the very beginning of the video as you cant really tell at first glance. I really enjoyed 5000 feet is the best mainly because of the very cinematic effect that the video had, the story line developed under this suspenseful, yet very intriguing material related to war and the after-effects of it, which is something that i believe is still very relevant today. The elements used in this video were what caught my attention mainly, as everything connected in one way or another to a certain degree. For instance the family in a way portrayed innocence to me, the drone gave me this “God” or third person who sees it all but doesn’t get involved in the story perspective. The military influence which helped me picture somewhat the violence and in a way there’s a sense of truthiness to it, also, the interviewer as the person who only listens to what he’s been told but doesn’t do anything about it; and of course the outcome of this and how its related to us. There was a lot of realism vs surrealism that is dealt all throughout which is extremely intriguing to me in a very dramatic way.
Final Project Proposal.
My last final project I want to do something different. I don’t want video record people talk anymore. I want to observe something like people’s body language, when it’s natural. I want to observe the sky and think what it just did and how it made us feel. To Or just a dog/cat drinking water. In my past two project I had people act out a little play. I think I achieved my goal of what I wanted people to see and understand. Now I want to shoot something and to set a tone to it and see people’s reaction.
Nicholas O’brien video art
I went to see Nicholas O’brien’s art today. I really liked that the videos were animated, with not too much movement going on. I found very interesting how O’brien was speaking about such simple things as an eraser, a churchkey, coat rack and a broom but he spoke of it not as if it was only an object. He saw something more meaningful to the every tool he was speaking of. He looks at an eraser as a forgiveness, because it allows us to erase our mistakes it allows us to “expunge our mistakes but not ruin our paper.” My other favorite piece was when he was talking about the church key. He said it’s “piety to the most faithful…unlocks places, invites people… object of who…potential revelation.” I mean I could see what’s he is saying, like it’s a key, keys are made to open things; O’brien looks somewhat deeper into that. He also said something like it’s a reward key; when you open the bottle and take that first sip, that’s a reward behind the closed cap. I really, really enjoyed the shows. It made me think how everything around me has a special meaning. The most simplest things…trinkets…may carry lots of meaning and purpose within it.
Final Project Proposal
I am always interested in videos that have feelings rather than stories and I like the random things that happen around for example after movies or backstage movies. Therefore I am planning to mix different scenes and I will mostly work on the transitions. Since I had 4 months in New York and I have to leave soon, for the last project I want to make a video that shows what is happening in New York and all those inspirations I had during my stay. Rather than just shooting the city I will also focus on my life here. So, I will basically shoot the things that I do and see here. With this last video I want to say goodbye to New York. I will have many different scenes rather than just having scenes that completes each other in a sequence. Like I said before, there will be no story, just the random scenes like an aftermovie.
I am also thinking of including scenes from movies in between my clips. Those movie scenes will support the clips that I have. I mean there will be a connection between those unrelated clips. For example, I will record a party scene and just before that I will use a scene from a documentation that shows the explosion of an atom bomb. I think it’s an interesting way to make transitions and create an experimental work.
Images:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/witkuw109xniwkv/AABgs5wCItQ1neGAhlAwMHbWa?dl=0
Final Project
For my final video i will do a video montage that will be composed of different visuals that will all mainly be connected by the different transitions. The main theme for this project is “exploring” from a first person perspective, I want to portray the feeling or sense of been there and experiencing the surroundings for the first time. Actually this is one of the main reasons why i want to focus on the transitions as i will be traveling from different locations and the scenery will constantly change, some of the elements and visuals that this video montage includes architecture, such as the beautiful architecture that we’re surrounded by every single day, not necessarily focusing on statutes nor your average touristy places. Hard and soft textures, with these I’d like to be able to play around with them in in order to create an idealistic tribal style of patterns. Colors, i believe that the color patterns throughout the video will change constantly depending on the location but i do want to create an emphasis on certain objects by saturating and desaturating certain colors. A balance in between symmetry and asymmetry. Also, i want to include use of reflections and distance. I believe that different shots will portray different moods all throughout, they will all vary from minimal shots to arguably colossal shots in a spatial manner. I believe the story line will be up to the viewer to interpret, and this is actually something that I’m aiming for as the final outcome will most likely be perceived differently by the everyone.
Repost: Comment on Adrielle’s Project 2
** Same comment was posted on time in Blog 6
Adrielle’s video has a subtle aesthetic that connects a standard in traditional visual art to her topic: time. Her topic (the subway) connects to time because it deals with transportation. However, her video also relates to time in a different way. Her subtle use of symmetry also relates to time. We see a green pole dividing the plane in half in the first scene, the green pole (farther away) dividing the plane again when she does a slight panning in the second scene, the silver pole dividing the plane in half in the third scene, and the black edges of the subway door dividing the plane in half again in the fifth scene. This method is similar to conveying perspective and depth in the visual arts. For example, when sketching a 1-point room, a lot of people start with a dot in the center of the plane, using straight lines that radiate from the center to establish the diagonal edges and symmetry of the room. By portraying a sense of space using this linear method, they also portray a sense of time by implying that it takes time to get from one point of the 3-D plane to another, basically implying a sense of “linear time” by portraying “linear perspective” (where the center point is at one end of the space, and the location of the viewer is at the other end).
Final Project Proposal
For my final project I want to make a video that has similar characteristics from the series final of the hit show Mad Men. That is my favorite TV show. The ending that was written was pure genius and I hope to re-create that ending scene with my camera. I will be sitting on the beach all by myself wearing all white clothes. That represents the new blank page in my life. I will be sitting and meditating on the sand. There will be chimes and seagull sounds in the background. As I move in closer with the camera zooming in on my face, a bell will go off representing the new and fresh ideas in my head. Then a song will come on. It will be from the 1971 hit commercial song “I’d like to buy the world a coke.” It was a very popular song for a very successful coco- cola advertising campaign in the 1970’s. As the song starts I smile for the first time in a while and the camera will zoom back out. Behind me will be other happy people in a meditative state. And the camera will go off into the sunshine as the song ends. That is how I envision my final project.
This is the one inspirational image I hope to emulate. It’s the final scene that made me both sad and happy.
This image is so beautiful. I love the texture and the content. It is sad to think that JFK was assassinated but he has still made an impression to the United States. As it made a positive impression on myself.
Project 4 Concept
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
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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.
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