19/8/15

This lessons class we screened everyones project brief 2. After watching my piece I received some feedback. I need to experiment in not working in such a methodical and processed way.The work doesn’t always have to be a journey from a-b, it can be more experimental and creative. I grouped my footage and photography so all the similar subjects matter was placed side by side. Robbie suggested re composing it to juxtapose the images and give them different meaning. It was also suggested that I didn’t include the text. It was a bit “base” and in your face and maybe almost insulting to the audience to tell them what they are seeing. Robbie suggested making a poetic statement about each element such as “the body is a house of many windows” rather then “the windows” or “what we see is only a fraction of what really is” rather then “the view”. When watching my piece I found it very slow and tedious. The sound was on a repetitive loop, I tried to gradually build it up as the film progresses but it takes too long to build up. Robbie also mentioned maybe pairing different sounds with different scenery to create confusion. I was trying to combine stills and sound to create a multidimensional piece where the 2 senses had similarities and parallels without being as closely linked as a video production. For example when I showed the collection of images of stairs I paired it with the sound of myself walking down the stairs but the presence of a human was not there in the images. Also when I showed the final image taken from inside of the carpark of the outside world I paired it with a close up sound of a truck taking off but the truck was not present in the photo. I didn’t like how my sound was so repetitive. There was no rhythm to it, it was just a solid beat and there was one tapping noise in particular which became very irritating and overpowered the piece.

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