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

Research

Just because, mirrors.

Also, the techniques that are used are amazing, Showing us what could've been, I guess.

Evaluation

Video's that don't show much are videos I like to evaluate on and are the type of things that I am interested in. I like how you can video anything and make it more than it really is. 

The choice to make the video in black and white works as it would not look appealing if it was in colour. 

Evaluation& In Depth Research

Although a music video isn't what I'm working towards, I really like the camera techniques that are used in this music video. It starts from the bottom of his feet and tilts upwards to his head. You can see the amount of effort that has gone onto this video clip especially when the colourings on the wall show up, and then on to the body. Stop motion is used when the colours on the wall come up and when it shows on to the body as well. The colour that show on the person go with the the colour on the wall, like his is the wall himself, camouflaged.

Camera techniques that I have noticed are medium close up, extreme close up, close ups, 2 shots, wide shot.

Stop Motion

Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or persona appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is calledclay animation or "clay-mation". Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation.

Application & Experimentation

Camera techniques that I have used are wide shot and extreme close up.
I left the original sound in the video.

Application, Experimentation & Evaluation.

Without added sound

                                     With added sound

                                         

• Family getting ready for church.
• I left the original sound on because I like the use of hearing what is actually going on.
• I have used different camera movements such as panning, tilt and camera handling like close up, wide shot.

I think I've used editing techniques like cut in, rhythmic and jump cut.

What didn't work for me was that the camera was handheld. As you watch through this experimentation you can see how the camera shakes as it is held still.

What I could do next time when filming is use a tripod.

With the 'added sound' video I didn't know which song to choice and since it was Sunday morning I decided to choice this song.

Although the 'without added sound' doesn't have 'added' sound I still prefer that, (without added sound), to the film that has 'added sound'.

Evaluation

A black and white video of Vito Acconci talking to someone who I think are the viewers. I found this film a bit creepy as he lies on the floor speaking to those who view it. He uses a close up of his face the whole time and says things that involve needing 'that person'.

I feel like, somehow, this video is working. Working as in it goes well together. As he lies there and talks seductively and shows intimacy. He could've filmed himself saying something else but what he said and how he says it works. I guess that's what makes this film art. When you watch this video you also notice the scratch effect and that, too, works, like he was losing connection on the other line.

From laying on the floor, to smoking cigarettes. From speaking intimately and seductively to the choice of song he plays and sings along to. Even the use of his body language with the things that he says works, in a creepy and weird way, it works.

In-Deph Research

History of Film

The history of film began in the 1890's, with the invention of motion picture cameras and the establishment of film production companies. The films of the 1890s were under a minute long and until 1927, motion pictures were produced without sound. The first eleven years of motion pictures show the cinema moving from a novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry. The films became several minutes long consisting of several shots. The first rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 1897. The first film studios were built in 1897. Special effects were introduced and film continuity, involving action moving from one sequence into another, began to be used. In 1900, continuity of action across successive shots was achieved and the close-up shot was introduced. Most films of this period were what came to be called "chase films". The first use of animation in movies was in 1899. The first feature length multi-reel film was a 1906 Australian production. The first successful permanent theatre showing only films was "The Nickelodeon" in Pittsburgh in 1905. By about 1910, actors began to receive screen credit for their roles, and the way to the creation of film stars was opened. Regular newsreels were exhibited from 1910 and soon became a popular way for finding out the news. Overall, from about 1910, American films had the largest share of the market in all European countries except France.

Task 10: Sound

Experimentation

What's working? It's a time lapse video. You are able to see the clouds moving.

What is not working? The angle that the camera is in doesn't look nice. It's not stable.

Evaluation & Ideas

In these two Ted Talks video, Louie Schwartzberg talks about the beauty of nature. His use of time lapse is amazing, capturing moments that we are not able to to see.

It takes months to be able to take a time lapse of something beautiful that takes time to grow. I love the colours that are shown, the camera movements that the camera captures, the use of time lapse to make the video more intriguing.

Schwartzberg has been shooting time lapse flowers non stop. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for over 30 years and it's amazing. So much effort taken into it, one month for a 4 minute video, which to me would be worth it.

I want to be able to take on what Schwartzberg has done with time lapse and put it into my final image, if I was to do time lapse as my final image.

Benedictine  monk Brother David Steindl-Rast talks about the beauty of nature in depth, in a way that we should be grateful to be in this world. To be able to enjoy the rain we get, to see more than just rain. He explains the way we think about weather. That we just think about the weather, good weather and bad weather.

I love how Schwartzberg has made this project using his time lapse of nature and has gotten a separate clip to be a voice over behind it. This gives me ideas of how I could present my final image.

What I could do later is experiment with how sound could be added into my image. If I was to add sound from a different clip or use the sound that is captured in the video I have taken at the time.

Experimentation

Camera Movement: Tilt

Evaluation

What do I see: skies, orange tree, oranges, garage, house, grass.

What's working? Camera movement is right.

What's not working? Lighting. Camera is hand held. 

Research

https://vimeo.com/user9875782

A Vimeo account with amazing nature time lapse.