Assignment four – Process
Biggest – Idea:
After finishing the presentation in class on Thursday, our group wants to continually concentrate on the question of How do people interact with spaces? Thanks for the feedback from our guests Steph Milsom and other two to listening to our presentation. In order to think of our assignment four, we consider still use the software Korsakow to create a non-linear online project. Comparing with assignment three, we want to be more specific in the fourth assignment which is only using the action of hands to explore the project itself. We are going to focus on three concepts in our project: Pattern, Movement, Landscapes. A preliminary plan for landscape is the four different gardens in Botanical Garden. In this way, the exploration of the space is more like an intergrade project. We are trying to be more specific at this time.
Big – the structure of the project
There will be three sections in our project. The landscapes, the movement of the hand in each landscape and the movement of the hand on a white background. It will be 4 still images landscapes with audio for the background, so we can only hear what is happening in one landscape, but there is nothing happen in visual because it is a still image. In order to let audiences interact with those four landscapes, we arguing to emphasize two keywords – hand and landscapes. We are deciding how many hand movement should we films in one landscape. But the four gardens will be Nymphaea Lily Lake, Tropical Glasshouse, Guilfoyle’s Volcano and the water garden. The project will use pattern and shapes to stresses the movement in the landscape. All close-ups and images will be in black and white. It allows audiences more concentrate with each media piece. And I think it will also be interesting if all media is in black and white. The project will look like a traditional documentary but it actually an interactive web documentary with multi-small scale media.
Research – Related to work
TITLE:
Place; Pattern & Flow
CHARACTERISTICS:
Interactivity, Variability, Modularity, Non-Linearity/Multilinearity
Note: As our project is an online project, it requires audiences to interact with the project itself. In order to observe the spaces that around people’s life. Again, each close-up can be seen as an individual media piece. However, it still makes sense when audiences see them as a whole. The project will be a nonlinear small-scale explore documentary. The project involving a lack of linearity between two related small-scale media(input and output) Audiences will need to find the meaning behind the project. This also reminds me of a series a did last semester called non-narrative exercise.
ACADEMIC ARTICLES:
Taras:
Nagini:
Rico:
Mia:
Kellein, T 1995, ‘Fluxus’, Thames and Hudson, London U.K
ONLINE SCREEN PRODUCTION WORKS:
Taras:
Note: I think this project exactly matches about what we are going to do in one part of the project, but it leads us to think about the speed of our hand actions.
Nagini:
The Most North Place – Anrick Bregman (2014)
Mia:
Collisions – Lynette Wallworth & Nyarri Morgan 2015
Rico:
ASMR Hand Movements – ASMRSurge (2017)
One part of our project will be only hand moment with ASMR. This project gives us an idea of ASMR.
Note: We will be expanding on our last project to focus on movement and patterns created by landscapes and the human body. We are responding to the characteristics; Interactivity, Variability, Modularity, Non-Linearity/Multilinearity. We are researching academic articles and examples of artistic practices and works such as Fluxus, interactive documentary and the production of non-fiction multimedia narratives. We have also looked into examples of online screen production works such as The Most North Place by Anrick Bregman which also explores landscapes and is therefore relevant to our work. We will be using Korsakow to arrange our media fragments. The project will consist of three major clusters and two tags; hands and landscapes. The first cluster will be still images of four landscapes (Nymphaea Lily Lake, Tropical Glasshouse, Guilfoyle’s Volcano and Water Conservation Garden) with ambient sound. The second cluster is videos of hands moving and existing within the landscape, the fragments from this cluster will have no sound. The final cluster consists of videos of only hands recreating movements from the landscapes with ASMR inspired sound from the landscape, we inspired by Michael Renov. Each fragment will be in black and white to accentuate the shape, textures, and movements. For this project, the contents are more complex however the interface will be simpler than our last.
Small – detail, equipment
This time we are still using Canon 5D Mark II as our shooting equipment. We are going to consider the speed of the movement of the hand because different speed will evoke different motions of audiences.
Also, I think this times we are not only allowing audiences to interact with spaces but also we are trying to creating an emotional feeling that allows audiences to connect with the spaces and the movements. The most interesting part of our work is the only action of the move with ASMR. The process is really funny, we all get a lot of enjoyful in making it.
Smallest – editing
All media should in black and white, so the audiences will only focus on the movement, patterns and flow in our project. Korsakow is a good software that can create new aesthetic possibilities. The connections between each piece of media can be related in multi-ways. In related, we are still going to use Korsakow as our tool to explore our project. The feedback we got in class, we are thinking to have some questions to audiences after they interact with the project. The questions will be:
We going to showing those questions by a preview that write END in the corner of our interface. So if the audience wants to quit our project, they can only press the ENd and one of the questions will show up randomly. In the third class, one of my classmates argues that interactive documentary sometimes may confuse people. And that really what I want to me do for the project. If all audiences think the same meaning for my project as I do, then it will not make sense for me to create this interactive project. I really want to hear different opinions from people.
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