Final Work

• I see my film as something that would be presented in a gallery. 
• I wasn't quite sure of what I was going to film. But knowing that things that you adore are always around you, I decided nature, green, earth, mirror, refection. It's not much but yea. 

My film to me is:

Being able to view things differently. From different angles, seeing it from something else such as a reflection. 

Showing the different techniques that I have been taught and applying it into my final work.

What a difference it can be by viewing it in colour and without colour and the type of music you add with it. 

How things can be viewed on screen and in real life. 

Being able to work with things that appeal to me.

I was playing around with my final image. I left everything normal, colour through out, same music through out. 

I then decided to add reverse shots to the second half of my video, reversing the shots I have on my first half, of the video. 

I already had my music chosen. It was the same through out. I then decided to change the second half of my music adding it so it could be fade out and go with the reverse shot as the colour show.

I decided to use black and white at the beginning because I knew I was going to use colour on the reverse shots. It also goes with music I have chosen.

The video with the black and white is my final image. 

Research

Jeppe Hein
Mirror Wall (Video)
2010
Mirror foil, wooden frame substructure, vibration system
200 x 356 cm

Something similar happens when visitors get close to Mirror Wall (2010). What at first appears to be a large but straightforward mirror begins to move slightly when approached. Viewing one’s vibrating reflection in it and the accompanying distorted backdrop of the gallery space creates a sense of dizziness and a strange feeling of separation from the familiar. It prompts us instinctively to re-calibrate our spatial awareness and our relationship to what we see and where we are. 

Hein’s experiential, perceptual magic tricks are his vehicle for raising engagement between art and its audience. He makes work that can only be experienced through participation, expanding our notion of what art is or could be. ‘For me, the concept of sculpture is closely linked with communication… By challenging the physical attention of the viewer, an active dialogue between artwork, surrounding and other visitors is established that lends the sculpture a social quality.’

http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/jeppe_hein_mirror_3.htm

Context

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena.

Application & Experiment

• Nephews holy communion celebration
• Camera angles I have used are close up, extreme close up, and wide shot.

Artist Research

Yoko Ono

Born: 18 February 1933
Occupation: Artist, peace activist, singer.

Gaining Notice as an Artist

Settling in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Ono developed an interest in art and began writing poetry. Considered too radical by many, her work was not well-received, but she gained recognition after working with American jazz musician/film producer Anthony Cox, who later became her second husband. Cox financed and helped coordinate her "interactive conceptual events" in the early 1960s.

Ono's work often demands the viewers' participation and forces them to get involved. Her most famous piece was the "cut piece" staged in 1964, where the audience was invited to cut off pieces of her clothing until she was naked, an abstract commentary on discarding materialism.

In Depth Research

Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. Video art came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as new consumer video technology became available outside corporate broadcasting. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; installations viewed in galleries or museums; works streamed online, distributed as video tapes, or DVDs; and performances which may incorporate one or more television sets, video monitors, and projections, displaying ‘live’ or recorded images and sounds;.^[1]

Video art is named after the original analog video tape, which was most commonly used recording technology in the form's early years. With the advent of digital recording equipment, many artists began to explore digital technology as a new way of expression.

One of the key differences between video art and theatrical cinema is that video art does not necessarily rely on many of the conventions that define theatrical cinema. Video art may not employ the use of actors, may contain no dialogue, may have no discernible narrative orplot, or adhere to any of the other conventions that generally define motion pictures as entertainment. This distinction also delineates video art from cinema's subcategories (avant garde cinema, short films, or experimental films, etc). 

In Depth Research

Link to Cinematic Techniques

Everything to know, camera wise, about Film making and Video Production