Posts Tagged ‘video’
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
I haven’t been updating much as I’ve been very busy with doing the major assessment, work and my international guest all at once. For the first few weeks the project was looking not-so-great, but we’ve really pulled everything together this last week and we’re on schedule according to the Gantt chart. We’ve got 60 videos all up that we’re going to plug into Korsakow in class this afternoon. I’ve got half of them already but I need to SNUify the rest. Eric has made the bulk of them, as per our Project Management notes. Vanessa has made the backgrounds so the interface should be good.
I’ve also made a start on the essay. I created a Google Doc to share our notes. I’ve written 1000 words of draft ideas so far. Vanessa will take that and build upon it, as essay-writing is a large part of her contribution (per her request).
So all that’s left of the K-Film itself should be the final stages of putting it all together before exporting. This time I want to publish it on the web well before the due date to make sure it’s all good. Everything else is much simpler to hand in.
Tags: Assessment, Korsakow, video
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
There were only two videos again this week, Things that quicken my heart and Small things worth noticing. I think I like the heart-quickening video the most because I like the way I did it. I made do with my wardrobe, which has a collage of images that mean something to me. I used a handful of those images to symbolise things that quicken my heart. I was actually going to do the same for Small Things but I decided against it and focused on the things in my room that make small sounds.
So, there you have it. All of my sketch videos are completed, ready for Korsakow.
Tags: reflection, sketches, video, video poem
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
I focused on small sounds.
Tags: bells, little things, objects, small things, sounds, trinkets, video, video poem
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
I narrate this video about things that quicken my heart.
Tags: collage, heart, narration, pictures, video, video poem
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Of the two videos I made this week, Me without me in it and Family without family in it, my favourite is Me. In fact, I think Me might be the best video I’ve made of all of them for Integrated Media. I feel like it’s extremely successful in describing me without showing me and I also think it’s visually and aurally stimulating. I wanted to utilise sound effectively (for both videos actually, but oh well) and I definitely succeeded on Me.
Tags: criteria, reflection, review, video, video poem
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
I decided to keep things simple for the family video. Without having my family in it, I went back to imagery I’ve used before. A box. On the left side, we are all separate individuals. On the right sight, we are part of the same unit. That’s everybody’s family, right?
Tags: box, drawing, family, moleskine, notebook, video, video poem, writing
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
I found this quite simple, really. The best way to describe me without showing me is my writing. My writing is me, my words are me. I hope this video encapsulates that.
Tags: poetry, recital, video, words, writing
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
My self-appointed criteria for the videos this week were:
Utilise sound.
Focus on the abstract, how the places make me feel.
I think I failed at the first and succeeded at the second. I think my ideas about inside, outside and in between were conveyed relatively effectively through the visuals. I didn’t slap a song on any of them, so I half succeeded in the ‘utilise sound’ but I think I could do better. Maybe I should try again for that criteria next week.
In the meantime, my favourite video this week was Outside because it was very personal and nostalgic for me. I filmed it that way because that is how I view these memories. I look down into that tiny screen on my old handicam and watch the raw footage of those moments passing by. That was my outside. Inside and In Between weren’t as effective.
Tags: criteria, in between, inside, memories, outside, video, video poem
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
I actually got this idea from Taylor, who I saw in the stairwell looking down the flights of stairs and saying she was freaked out. I had taken my camera out with me today because this was the last video I had to make. This was very spontaneous. It felt like it fit very well into ‘in between’ because I was in between levels. And my first thoughts on receiving the videos this week was, ‘In between can feel very uncomfortable.’ Taylor’s reaction and the visual of the stairs all seemed to fit.
Of course, I’d have liked to film it better. To have it not handheld, not low quality, not so slow — but like I said, it was spontaneous. I was making do.
P.S. Back in 2010, I made a short film called The In-Between which you can watch on Vimeo in HD here.
Tags: in between, making do, stairs, video, video poem
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Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Maybe this video doesn’t seem like it fits the criteria. I mean, we are supposed to make a video about “how it feels for you to be inside.” Well, the first thing I thought of when I thought of being inside was safe. I also thought, inside is where you keep all your stuff. It’s also where your personality comes out in the way you keep your inside area. But how could I visually represent these thoughts in 30 seconds?
I thought about the little tin from Amélie with all of those trinkets and treasures in it. That tin was like a miniature inside. It was like the diorama of a person’s “inside.” And I thought, I have a tin like that, and so I filmed my own tin keeping its contents safe inside.
Tags: inside, safe, tin, trinkets, video, video poem
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