Author Archives: Ai Vee Goh

About Ai Vee Goh

Films. Photography. Micro Machines. Ice Tea. Honesty.

Egg Head

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https://vimeo.com/89768612

This is a raw egg which I have decorated with a permanent marker. I drew lines along the egg to create a sense of direction when I spin the egg on top of my kitchen table.

The spinning of the egg reminds me of the game ‘spin the bottle’.

This video is about ‘slow’ movement.

 

The Making of This Is Not A Drive By

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https://vimeo.com/89180444

Camera used for shooting images:

  • Canon EOS 600D DSLR with 18-55mm lens kit with Kenko UV filter.

List of materials used as source of light:

  • Red bike LED light
  • Table lamp
  • iPod Touch 5 flashlight

List of materials used as gels and diffusers:

  • A red transparent A5 box file with a zip case
  • A blue translucent file case
  • A blue transparent CD cover

List of materials used to bounce off light: 

  • Yellow cardboard
  • Red cardboard
  • Green folder
  • Red translucent phone cover

List of materials used to make this video possible:

  • 10 X Artist canvas trading cards
  • 4 X MicroMachine cars
  • 4 X Blank A4 white printing paper
  • Blu tack
  • Sticky tape
  • Tissue box
  • Stationary container
  • Red pen
  • Oxford dictionary
  • Hole puncher
  • Tape holder

The Making of Hunted

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https://vimeo.com/89164950

A little something something about how I created the set of ‘Hunted’, the stop-motion.

Yes, the lighting set up is indeed quite weird. Using household objects as my gels is rather strange…

But it works so ha!

Hunted

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https://vimeo.com/89078231

A couple of years ago, I used to have an obsession with Lego. I’m not ashamed of playing with Lego as an adult, why should I be? I had heaps of those Ninjago Lego, I gave them away when I realised that my shelve could not fit anymore Lego let alone my MicroMachine cars.

Unlike my previous video titled “Hunter”, this new “Hunted” video is a stop-motion. There’s a total of 14 images that make up the short video, there is no audio. I haven’t made a stop-motion short film for some time now, since Year 10, gosh I sound so old. Back in the day, I used to play around with play dough and plasticine – aahhhhhh the good old days – creating weird looking figurines for my final assessment. I truly believe that my Year 10 stop-motion animation was one of my best work I’ve done thus far but then again, I had nothing to compare it to until now.

Upon watching Hunted, you may conclude that there are visible errors in the production aspect of video. I had cropped each picture individually to rid the image of the shadows of my hands and camera phone – I use my iPhone 5 to capture these images – cropping the images meant that the ratio of each photo is just ridiculously a pain to look at in the video.

Using ‘found’ materials around the environment that I was in – that is, my study room – I used my lot of blank artist trading cards, blu tack, sticky tape, a pair of scissors, one of my Lego figurines in my attempt to create a scene. I used a table lamp to light up my scene, I also used a translucent A5 box file with a zip case and a blue translucent file case as my gels for my lamp light, yes, that’s correct, I’m a student on a mere budget, keeping production cost down since ’09! It worked, well… Sort of. My make shift gels worked like a charm.

There are a few photos that do not match the ambience of the other pictures. Not having a tripod was one of the disadvantages I had. I used the software program Final Cut Pro X to edit my short clip, adjusting each image to last 0.12 seconds in duration, I did not edit the pictures other than cropping it.

Overall, I am relatively happy with the product that I managed to create within an afternoon. Of course, there needs to be improvements in the future if I aim to make another stop-motion later in the semester, I think next time I will use my DSLR and a tripod to shoot my images. I truly did enjoyed making the clip.

(This video is about light).