This week, I am brainstorming ideas on composition, angle, editing – basically the technical aspect of Screen project 1. That is my first step toward developing a video script and storyboard.

To recap, I will divide the footage into 3 categories: Minh playing the piano, Trang creating a music-inspired painting, and a set of videos illustrating my music-inspired imaginary images. The first shot I will exploit in my video is the close-up shot. I will have scenes that focus on Minh’s hands dancing on the keyboards, and painting stages such as drafting, filling in colors, etc. The close-up shot can encapsulate the fact of presentation in its purest form, and they are the pianist’s hands, the lines, and the colors that I want the audience to observe in greater detail (Doane 2003).

Quite the opposite of close-up, I will make use of long shots as well. As mentioned in my previous blog post, arts affect one’s process of experiencing the environment, polishing the sensory system, and enriching the imaginative abilities (Eisner 2002). 3 participants in the video will present 3 art, meaning our experiences with arts are different. Each person’s relationship with arts has different thumbprints, structures, and lengths. The spectators can have an understanding of our relationships with the preferred art forms through our personal spaces. The long shots are useful in showing the room of Minh, Trang, and I which consecutively, are occupied with audio equipment, colorful paintings, and several types of cameras.

I mentioned in my first blog post that I enjoy matching clips to the music or the vibe of the melody. This technique is definitely applicable to this project because the music is the starting point of the experimental video. Moreover, there will be fast-forwarded scenes to show as much of the painting process as possible. Until we decided on the music, I couldn’t picture my set of videos yet as it is stimulated by the music. Assuming that the audio file is ready next week, I hope to finish the script and storyboard by August 12.

References

Doane, M.A. 2003, ‘The close-up: scale and detail in the cinema’, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol.14, no. 3, pp. 89-111, viewed 1 August 2021, Project MUSE database.

Eisner, EW 2002, The arts and the creation of mind, Yale University Press, New Haven, viewed 30 July 2021, <http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=188042&site=ehost-live>.