This was our final submission our group project. The process worked in a way where Tom gave us clips and we would experiment with the visuals to it compliment the sound. Anna and I mess around with our own edits and brought it back to tom where be would change subtle noises in the tracks to then suite the audio better. Combinign Annas Drop visuals and my video feed back experimentations made some very  interesting effects when using blending modes and distortion techniques.

Editing the video was a very tedious exercise

An Intricate Image from Alec Wilson on Vimeo.

As a group we went to the Redwood forest in Warburton to collect sound and imagery for our interactive display. We brought two cameras; My 6D and a loan camera from building 9.

I found the environment to be quite immersive as we all went off to do our own things getting lost among the trees or the river. Under the redwood trees there was a sense of uniformity in the trees placement but it still felt like we were in a natural forest. It was good for filming because it made it quite eerie and meant that I could play around on the zoom and shallow depth functions on the X200

Unfortunately  I thought the camera was filming at 1060p 60fps, but was actually filming at 60mb/s only 25fps. The whole time i though the footage as going to be in slowmo. This would have allowed me to slow it down in post which would give the image much smoother motion and focus.

I was imagining for the interactive display that we could have the footage ramp up or does depending on how fast the interactive instrument would be shaken or stirred. Instead we might need to do something else.

For the  TownHall organ installation Anna and I are collecting visuals which will be projected on the organ and react to the sounds.  We are going to do some field recording but are also going to have seperate projects where we experiment with more abstract imagery to give the show diversity in its subject matter. Anna has already recorded footage of dye in water and now i’m going to experiment with video feedback techniques.

I was first inspired by a youtube channel called ‘troysvisualarts” which to this date is my greatest find on the internet. Hours of content have been posted by Troy as he builds TV’s and Cameras as well as testing out expired film and experimenting with old media. Many of his videos (over 200)  have only 5 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy64khZ24vA&index=29&list=LLRbgvZkbV127DEFpdPrTLvg&t=771s

While I don’t have the same equipment as Troy, I borrowed some a digital tape camcorder from the department and hooked it up suing an HDMI cord into my monitor.
Over a few sessions I experimented with strobe lights and lazers, messed around with the cameras manual settings and improvised with other random objects.

From this process of testing and experimenting I became immersed in the strobe lights while trying to recreate previous patterns and looks.

Morphing hand gestures infront of the camera created some very trippy visuals. One cool thing aobut this was that by having my hand between teh screen and teh camera it created sort of a shadow on the image whcih in a way masked the feedback in front and bellow it. So it interchanges between red flashes and darkness resulting in an interesting effect.

I found that the camera wasn’t particularly suited to this kind of work as it could only film in 1080i 25fps. I wanted to slow the footage down when editing  but found the video feedback morphed slow enough that it wasn’t needed.

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