Month: October 2017

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The finished product is exporting! (hopefully this time adobe doesn’t crash)

My final installation video (comprised of all the portraits and the interviews – the file that would be used in the installation) is re-exporting, and I have to watch it to make sure if premiere crashes for the hundredth time, I can start the export again without wasting any more time *stress.* While that’s happening, I thought I’d talk a bit about the project.

 

At the start of the semester, I was hoping to do a documentary project, however I liked the idea of experimenting with different forms of documentary outside of documentary films which is my main focus. The project I’ve created for this final assignment is thus something that I’m really excited about. Not only have I created something new in a new style, but I’ve created a work that’s important, especially today. For that I am immensely proud, and will try to find a way to screen the work outside of this assessment as I think it works effectively to humanise and showcase LGBTQ+ issues in a way I haven’t really seen before. Even while watching the abbreviated interviews in the demo simulation I cut together (embedded below), I can see how effective the work is, and that was something I was always worried about in creating it – what if it fails to get the right message across?

I’ve taken a lot of care in editing the interviews to show exactly what effects queer people, and how different aspects of our lives shape who we are. It calls attention to the struggles that queer people face, and the way these issues come about.  Each interview shows different aspects of life as a queer person today, and highlights the diversity in experience that is crucially important to recognise when speaking about queer issues. Ultimately it’s a work that asks its audience to reexamine how they think about and interact with these issues. And I think it’s successful in that task.

 

 

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Progress Update – Soundscape finished! 

Exported my final edit of the soundscape today. Am really happy with the way the layering turned out as throughout there’s usually one slightly raised focal voice that you hear, and then multiple other layers of other voices, which you can hear coherently if you concentrate and focus on them individually – otherwise it just appears like a wash of sound, just as I intended.

Slight issue is whenever I play it through my laptop speakers it loses all of its depth and the sounds become very separated into one loud main voice and then just quiet chatter in the background. Through headphones however its magnificent. Sound extraordinaire Ed assures me nothing sounds good through laptop speakers so I shouldn’t pay it any mind however, so I’m running with that.

Time to focus back on editing the interviews now!

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VISUALS SHOOT 2

Tom, Alec and I went to Redwood forest to shoot the second set of visuals for the town hall installation –

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PROJECTS UPDATE

Some piccies from helping Hattie with her short film, helping with sound, equipment, dog wrangling and being a telepathic angel of death.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INSTALLATION

Interviewing people this week, and filming next Thursday/Friday.

Currently have 10 people involved.

Hopefully finding two more, so can cycle through 3 sets of 3 (some are being shot as couples).

 

TOWN HALL 

Working on bringing together all the elements needed for the interactive portion of the installation.

Shooting some more visuals in Redwood forest this Saturday.