Last week we got advice on our Korsakow projects. We were originally planning to link to the three other questions from the one that was being viewed by Adrian’s advice was to get into clouds of the same answers and have a few that lead out to other questions.
Category Archives: Integrated Media 1
Failure
Korsakow clips have become even more of a total failure.
The audio just isn’t working for me. I’m going to have to film again and I’m using up all of my friends.
I’ve had such good answers as well and I’m just ruining them!
Korsakow project clips
This week we began collecting our clips for the Korsakow project. I have been having difficulty because the microphone on my phone isn’t very good so I will have to use my DSLR instead and make sure that the files aren’t too big. As the clips are small it shouldn’t be a hassle.
We are doing interviews with members of couples. We ask them four questions:
- How did you meet your partner?
- Describe them.
- What do you love about your partner?
- What is one thing you dislike or a weird habit that your partner has?
Each clip is from the mouth down, as we want the viewer to concentrate more on what the interviewee is saying than their appearance. It will be in black and white for this reason as well.
It Happened One Night
The thing that I find interesting about this film is that it’s timeless. It is as engaging and interesting now as it was when it came out, despite the technological limitations of the time.
What I’m interested in is how they did this.
The limitations of being in black in white, lower film quality, no ability for special effects, different dimensions and the different filming/acting/story style of the time, have not effected the quality of the experience.
They created a script that used the medium to its fullest advantage.
Characterisation and casting were the standouts of this film.
The characters were so well developed that the plot did not seem to be written, the characters seemed to just react as they would as people, because they were so convincingly people.
Final Lecture, Interactive Media 1
Post-industrial industry. Constantly changing, need to be adaptable.
My edit is not the best edit. It cannot only be cut one way.
What can I do with this? The value of this question.
Scarcity is gone.
Makers are in co-creation with our audience.
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Stop colonising your media work with what you already know and what you expect.
Medium talks back to you.
It isn’t about the sharpie it’s about the writing.
Don’t put up walls. You will be more successful the easier it is for people to find and use your work.
Capacity to make something of value is what is valuable.
Japan and interface
So I spent this week in Japan and noticed a theme that became apparent several times when learning about Japanese architecture, art and gardens.
Japanese culture is occupied with how things change over time. Japanese gardens differ to what I’m used to in Australia in that they are designed with how the plants act during the different seasons in mind. It means that anyone who visits the gardens at different times of the year will have different experiences to people who come at other times.
This is similar to the Korsakow project in that everyone has different experience and I will make sure this concept is taken into consideration the same way that the Japanese plan their gardens when we do our project.
Week 10 Class
We’ve done more work on our Korsakow. We have around half the clips we need, but still have to take more.
From here we need to design an interface and have a strategy behind it, it can’t just be random. There needs to be thought behind it, and I don’t know where that thought can come from.
The clips are of interview questions by members of couples, each person is in four clips answering different questions in each one. The pattern will probably have to do with each question, so one question leads to others that have something to do with that question.
The interface on the other hand we have no ideas about currently.
Brainstorming:
- Lots of little clips to choose from, symbolising how ubiquitous love is
- Divide the categories by male and female
Week 9 Class and Organisation
Organisation of our Korsakow project.
We’re really on track with our Korsakow project. We each have given tasks, so this week outside of class we will each conduct 5 different interviews, each consisting of 4 questions. That gives up 60 clips in total. We decided to shoot on our phones, horizontally, and all will be framed the same way.
Then by next week’s class we will have a draft put together to show in class. Then we will work more on the interface design and key words of the Korsakow during that week.
The week after that we will work on the essay. We have already decided that we will each write 600 words on a different topic. I will be covering the content of the piece.
We have all this information tracked in a Gant chart.
33 Objects
This week I went to visit the NGV, and check out the new works there. Something I noticed was there is now a lot of media art on exhibition, whereas a few years ago it was mainly paintings and stills.
One artwork that seemed relevant to our media class in particular was Charlie Sofo’s video piece, 33 Objects That Can Fit Through the Hole in my Pocket.
This arwork showed the artist’s feet and random objects fell out the bottom of his trousers after shaking his feet. It was list-like, in that the objects were random and were connected by their ability to fall through his pocket. It also reminded me of our Korsakow projects because it was extremely abstract.
When watching these random objects fall out of the artist’s pocket, I had no idea what it meant or what the artist was trying to do. The description of the artwork states that it “raises questions about perceived and actual and resourcefulness or artists, humorously critiquing criteria that claim to separate treasure from trash.”
This is an interpretation that I would never have guessed at, and I think it is an example of how ambiguous media list-like works can be, and how this does not devalue them.
Week 8 lecture, Media 1
Korsakow clips mean nothing on their own, they gain meaning through their connections to other clips.
Filtered through the subjectivity of the maker. Doesn’t have to be grounded in reality. It’s all about the voice of the filmmaker. The essay and its relationship with experience. Documentary is all non-fictional cinema. Essay films are a category within documentary. Not so much telling you what to think as an invitation to think with the creator. Exploratory as it is a thinking through of a … who knows what.
Style and genre differ. Genre has specific qualifiers that make it a specific genre, styles have different elements that are similar but can fit into different genres. Genre is more about content than how you make it go about. Style is about what it is about. Our Korsakow films can be any genre, but the style is important.
We cannot know what our intent is. Intent does not survive anything. Parody and satire undermine intent. Intent counts for nothing.