For my final project I wanted to challenge myself. I wanted to do something I have never done before and push myself, which is why I chose to do a stop motion video. I have never done a video before besides the storm trooper stop motion. But one with a narrative that is emotional and has people in it is like a whole new universe to me! I chose this idea for the video because one of my greatest fears is losing the people I love. For me, I am constantly worried I will lose someone and have nightmares about it as well and I wanted to convey this story of a girl losing her loved one in the video. I wanted to utilize scenes that others can relate to. Scenes that most couples and relationships go through and they people can connect with the emotion of love. I wanted the scenes to be playful in that sense but also reflect how much he means to her and reflect her confusion in the dream of not knowing whether he is there or not and that she keeps looking for him.
I hope that my ideas were conveyed in my video. I am still learning about videos. I do wish that I would have had a bit more time to work on it just because it is a deep concept and long video that it has taken a lot to do. If I had more time I may have been able to shoot the scenes a couple of different ways to see what worked but the time crunch limited me. I also am excited to try to make a new story and new video now that I have my first one under the belt. I learned a lot about editing and how different types of shooting will help in the end with editing and putting it together. It was definitely a learning process and I am still learning. I enjoyed making the video and putting my ideas into a new medium of art. It pushed me personally and artistically and am excited to try more!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI34jU40hbU
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thoughts on Final Images Assignment 5
Collage:
For the collage, I chose the postcards as the subject because for me, my family and friends travel all over the world and I love getting postcards from them. It was a sentimental subject. I wanted it to be a portrait orientation to showcase the length and express just how many postcards I get. I also chose to use bigger slivers of the postcards so you get more color and subject from them but still are not sure of the places that they are from.
In creating this image, I wanted to tell a personal story of how much traveling means to my family and how pieces of our life put together can make a beautiful image. I think it deals with the idea of how chaotic our life can be and how all over the place it is but so colorful and beautiful it is at the same time.
The students really like the story behind it, the colors and the whole idea. They thought it might be cool to keep going and just adding on more postcards to it as the years go by. I like that idea and am really interesting in doing something like that. Maybe adding on to this one or creating a different collage for each year.
Boy yelling at bunny:
For this one I wanted a landscape orientation to really get the whole scene in the frame. I chose natural lighting because I loved how it was working with the scene, it really brought so much overall light and gave the image a sense of film still even. I wanted this perspective so that the spilled orange juice led you up to the bunny who was getting yelled at for the spilled drink.
In creating this image, I wanted to play with the idea of posed performance and the idea of giving life to toys. This could have been just a bunny sitting there but the interaction with the human gives it a sense that the bunny did spill the OJ. I think that this image deals with the idea of the role of normally inanimate objects in our life and how we have always grown up with them and given them life in our play time but what if they always had life?
The class really liked this photograph and the colors in it. They liked the scene and wanted me to keep going with it, maybe make more or expand on this scene. They like how the background made the colors of the guy and the bunny stand out. I really enjoyed making this and would be interested in doing more with this bunny, this scene or just totally new toys and scenes too.
Storm troopers triptych:
For this one, I chose to make it a triptych because I think it enhances the idea of the narrative. I also chose to get close to the storm troopers in the photographs to make it seem like they were bigger and that they were doing the actions and had life in them. I wanted to use natural light from windows and indoor lights to make it seem that they were just going about their day instead of posing.
In creating this image, I again wanted to play with the idea of giving life to toys. As we get older we do not play with toys as much and we think they lose life but what if they didn't. what if they had their own lives. I think this image deals with that idea of as we grow older we lose our sense of creativity but maybe getting back to the toys, we can bring that back.
The class enjoyed the photographs and thought they were amusing. They liked the triptych and agreed that it brought more of a narrative to it. They like the lighting and colors also. I really enjoyed working with the toys and already have plans to make more scenes with them to make it seem like they are alive.
Stop motion- Storm Troopers love Oreos
For the stop motion, I wanted to keep the background of the kitchen just how it was. I feel like it makes it seem as if the storm trooper had bought all of this food for his own kitchen. I also wanted the focus to be on the storm trooper because he is the subject and it was about him. I chose a landscape orientation to get the whole scene in the frame and I wanted this perspective so that you could see his movement over to the milk.
In creating this image, I again wanted to play with the idea of giving life to toys. As we get older we do not play with toys as much and we think they lose life but what if they didn't. what if they had their own lives. I think this image deals with that idea of as we grow older we lose our sense of creativity but maybe getting back to the toys, we can bring that back. I think this really gives life to the storm trooper because you see his movement and it really makes him look alive!
The class enjoyed the stop motion and were impressed. They liked the colors and the simple, fun idea. It took a long time to make the scenes and get him to stand up or stay in a spot. I loved making this and plan on making more stop motion with toys now that I have one under my belt.
For the collage, I chose the postcards as the subject because for me, my family and friends travel all over the world and I love getting postcards from them. It was a sentimental subject. I wanted it to be a portrait orientation to showcase the length and express just how many postcards I get. I also chose to use bigger slivers of the postcards so you get more color and subject from them but still are not sure of the places that they are from.
In creating this image, I wanted to tell a personal story of how much traveling means to my family and how pieces of our life put together can make a beautiful image. I think it deals with the idea of how chaotic our life can be and how all over the place it is but so colorful and beautiful it is at the same time.
The students really like the story behind it, the colors and the whole idea. They thought it might be cool to keep going and just adding on more postcards to it as the years go by. I like that idea and am really interesting in doing something like that. Maybe adding on to this one or creating a different collage for each year.
Boy yelling at bunny:
For this one I wanted a landscape orientation to really get the whole scene in the frame. I chose natural lighting because I loved how it was working with the scene, it really brought so much overall light and gave the image a sense of film still even. I wanted this perspective so that the spilled orange juice led you up to the bunny who was getting yelled at for the spilled drink.
In creating this image, I wanted to play with the idea of posed performance and the idea of giving life to toys. This could have been just a bunny sitting there but the interaction with the human gives it a sense that the bunny did spill the OJ. I think that this image deals with the idea of the role of normally inanimate objects in our life and how we have always grown up with them and given them life in our play time but what if they always had life?
The class really liked this photograph and the colors in it. They liked the scene and wanted me to keep going with it, maybe make more or expand on this scene. They like how the background made the colors of the guy and the bunny stand out. I really enjoyed making this and would be interested in doing more with this bunny, this scene or just totally new toys and scenes too.
Storm troopers triptych:
For this one, I chose to make it a triptych because I think it enhances the idea of the narrative. I also chose to get close to the storm troopers in the photographs to make it seem like they were bigger and that they were doing the actions and had life in them. I wanted to use natural light from windows and indoor lights to make it seem that they were just going about their day instead of posing.
In creating this image, I again wanted to play with the idea of giving life to toys. As we get older we do not play with toys as much and we think they lose life but what if they didn't. what if they had their own lives. I think this image deals with that idea of as we grow older we lose our sense of creativity but maybe getting back to the toys, we can bring that back.
The class enjoyed the photographs and thought they were amusing. They liked the triptych and agreed that it brought more of a narrative to it. They like the lighting and colors also. I really enjoyed working with the toys and already have plans to make more scenes with them to make it seem like they are alive.
Stop motion- Storm Troopers love Oreos
For the stop motion, I wanted to keep the background of the kitchen just how it was. I feel like it makes it seem as if the storm trooper had bought all of this food for his own kitchen. I also wanted the focus to be on the storm trooper because he is the subject and it was about him. I chose a landscape orientation to get the whole scene in the frame and I wanted this perspective so that you could see his movement over to the milk.
In creating this image, I again wanted to play with the idea of giving life to toys. As we get older we do not play with toys as much and we think they lose life but what if they didn't. what if they had their own lives. I think this image deals with that idea of as we grow older we lose our sense of creativity but maybe getting back to the toys, we can bring that back. I think this really gives life to the storm trooper because you see his movement and it really makes him look alive!
The class enjoyed the stop motion and were impressed. They liked the colors and the simple, fun idea. It took a long time to make the scenes and get him to stand up or stay in a spot. I loved making this and plan on making more stop motion with toys now that I have one under my belt.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Final Project- work in progress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJilp8zlMWg
This is a very rough draft, I am still doing a lot of editing and half the video is not in. The concept of someone you love disappearing.
Also, thoughts on if there should be no sound or a quiet song playing. At the end when she wakes up it will be audio of her actual surroundings so I want the dream state to either be quiet or have a song so that they have a big difference and showcases the difference of dream and reality but I am not sure of no sound or a song yet.
I am also thinking about slowing it down so there are less frames per second so that it doesn't go by so fast.
This is a very rough draft, I am still doing a lot of editing and half the video is not in. The concept of someone you love disappearing.
Also, thoughts on if there should be no sound or a quiet song playing. At the end when she wakes up it will be audio of her actual surroundings so I want the dream state to either be quiet or have a song so that they have a big difference and showcases the difference of dream and reality but I am not sure of no sound or a song yet.
I am also thinking about slowing it down so there are less frames per second so that it doesn't go by so fast.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Blog 6
- Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside?
I am not sure that the concept or the idea I have in my head for the video will translate well when I actually take all of the photographs and put them together. The opposite is that my idea is seen clearly. I need to write down my ideas and have a set plan so that it can translate easily to the photographs.
- What is the “opposite” of your final project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”? The opposite would be real video instead of stop motion. I am incorporating that exact thing at the end of my stop motion to juxtapose reality and a dream.
- What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project? The consistent theme is loss and having her bf disappear. The opposite is having him there which I am doing a mix of both.
- Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project. Love, loss, loneliness, boyfriend, girlfriend, death, romance, memories, park, dating, together, apart, stutter, dream, longing, missing, disappear, giving, mystery, sadness.
- At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep! I like this project because it touches upon my fear of being a lone and losing the one I love.
- Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project? I would expand it by taking more time with certain shots and also adding place to shoot at in the video. I would take more time to add in better and bigger props. I would also find a way to have the carnival scene be on a ride but I could not do what I wanted on the rides.
- Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form? Love and loss.
- Look at one of your images. Redesign it entirely. I am picturing my carnival scene and I would change it by adding in a scene with the rides in it.
- Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind. Three components are the bf being there, the boyfriend disappearing and the girl waking up. I think the whole video rearranges these components as the video advances.
- List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these. I assume it will be quite a long video but the reverse to that is that the photographs will be a lot in a second and the video wont be as long as I thought.
- What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future? 100 years ago and in the future it would be similar theme because love and loss will never change but the places will change as to the date and places that are around then.
- Remove something from your project. How does it change? Remove the boyfriend and there is no theme just a girl walking around town.
- Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed. This project touches on love, loss of a loved one and nightmares. It is a stop motion video which is very intriguing and will be interesting to the viewer and it involved a lot of places that can connect to everyone and what they do with their loved ones.
- Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks. No one wants to deal with love and loss and it will make you sad and you may not realize that it is a dream in the first place. To change this thought I am going to add a part at the end that is real time video so you can see the difference between dream and reality and have her waking up in a sweat and have a scene that depicts he is gone but that she loved him and holds on to the memories.
- Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dreams to your project? One of my memorable dreams is about being a lone in a white room and wanting to get out to be with people and my family and I think that this entire project has that element.
- How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project? I think my project is a narrative, it tells a story about the girl through the stop motion video. I think not having it a video and just a couple pictures would take away the narrative.
- How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually? They are connected through the stop motion video, to disconnect them would be to choose just 5 of the hundreds and you would lose the concept and they would be apart.
- What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually? I would change scenes and it would be a brand-new project
- Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why? Liebovitz may enjoy it because it touches on love and captures/documents part of my life.
- Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why? Stieglitz may have some disconnect because it is not pictoral work and is straight photography.
- How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected? I could add more scenes, make some more racy with her boyfriend, make it more intense with the idea that he is dead by adding a cemetery scene, make it more revealing by adding the image of the girl in there but the idea that you never see her face is mysterious, adding more scenes to lengthen it or cut some out to shorten. Etc. etc. Add noice and voice so that you are more connected to the boyfriend and he is more lovable.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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