Posts Tagged ‘video poem’
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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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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Saturday, March 24th, 2012
How does it feel to be outside? Free? Nostalgic? Beautiful? Excited? Scared?
Tags: feelings, memories, outside, video, video poem
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
Let’s recap, briefly, my personal criteria for the videos so far.
Week one:
Short clips of objects cut together.
Complementary.
Week two:
Use different cuts.
Use different subject matter.
Week three:
All one “story.”
Be able to put together to create one video.
I have so far achieved all of these criteria that I set for myself when given the video tasks. I like the idea I came up with for week three. I thought the dogs would be a good choice because they always get wet at the park so the difference between travelling toward and travelling from is more obvious. I’m disappointed that the quality came out so poor, so I’m uploading the full three videos stitched together in HD as well.
My favourite of the three is There because the action is more fun, but I like To and From equally because I think the angle is interesting. Too bad I’m not very smooth with filming while walking. The finished product kind of reminded me of this lovely video.
P.S. The music in all of the videos was made by my boyfriend. His music project is called Álfheimr.
Tags: dogs, park, reflection, video, video poem
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