Thursday, March 27, 2008
NMD 304 Lecture 8 Work A5
Please watch the online critique of each of your works. Take time to look at each others works on your own as well. Then post a comment on each of the works of your class mates. Your responses should point out both successful aspects as well as trying to point to any critical comments you can make. Post responses works in one blog. Please watch the third part of the lecture as well to hear more about assignment 6, "Frame, Clip, Sequence Poetry."
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8 comments:
I really liked watching everybody's project, they were all so different.. I got a different sense of a story from each piece. They all especially have really interesting visuals, very abstract, just like the audio.. The visuals as well in all the videos matched the feeling provoked from the audio very closely.
I forget where I read this but somewhere I read about filming and techniques and it mentioned on how switching camera angles, senses, images at a quick constant rate helps keep things that arent usually very interesting more interesting and it keeps viewers attention. If you pay attention to a majority of tv shows you will see how they are usually quickly changing what's being shown on the screen. This relates closely with the technique of 12 frames, it has made things that we wouldn't usually find very interesting to watch, more interesting by lots of them coming at you quickly and contrasting one another.
Neil's piece has a lot of abstract imagery. The fast paced nature of the sound and syncing the rhythm of the sounds with the image created a sense of anxiety to me. I think the piece was really nicely put together.
I liked Jake William's experimentation with the images-- the black and white and positive and negative. The superimposition and layering from image to image was a really nice calming effect.
Pat I thought did a really good job with choosing his images. It's this nice balance of calm vs. tension between the image and sound.
Isaac's image choose was really interesting. I enjoy the calmness and repetition but I wish there was more variety. I think it would be nice to see a whole series of arms and then some superimposed.
Andrew did a nice job of shooting in the car and matching that with the sound. I think it also works really well ending on the zipper.
Like Raph said, I think Chris's piece is really successful by seeing all these inanimate objects sort of come to life with the successful use of montage and superimposition with the lack of human interaction. You can feel the sense of anxiety and the presence of time.
Jesse used a lot of repetition which I thought was really successful. I also like the interesting choice of superimposing the fire over the water.
I become fixated on watching the dog in Jacob Powers piece, if he's going to hit the train but then he goes through the train. I like how the match is ambiguous at first and creates like a spotlight on the train.
I would like to start by saying I really enjoyed everyones projects. I thought they were all really good. A few images really stuck out to me though. One of them being Jakes shot of a celling fan, and the other being Andrew's car segment that matched up so well with the sound.
This next project is going to be a very interesting one and one that I'm going to try something different. This whole semester I have really wanted to try to make some sort of stop animation type thing for one of these projects and this one seems to be perfect for it. I have never made a stop animation so I'm interested in seeing how it will come out.
As Raph stated several times, it was very interesting to see the very diverse outcomes of this past project. Should be even more interesting for the next project with even so many possibilities to explore.
For these projects one that stuck out to me Isaac's piece. I would never think that watching a simple action such as an arm going through a jacket sleeve over and over again would hold my attention but Issac's piece did. Contrary to other pieces that had much visually going on, such as mine, I think since his was so simple I was not overwhelmed with the imagery and this for some reason caused me to think more about what his piece meant to me. Any criticism of the piece would be to add some visual diversity (color changes, video filters etc) and as Raph stated before to take this diversity to form a beginning and ending. However in the end I believe it was this piece's simplicity that only added to it's uniqueness.
I enjoy these higher level classes they really let each students potential shine. I feel a lot of people were held back by the limitations of previous classes. I wonder if this has anything to do with persons natural ability or what we have learned in our major.
My favorite video was Jessica Lavoie's I feel her piece was very honestly done with a lo of thought and care. Chris Cotreau had a similar piece in the same respect that I got a feel for a different style. They were both very cleanly edited which I wish I had taken more care with mine.
Jesse mentions that most television shows change images quickly to keep the attention of the viewers. If you watch a lot of media from back in the 60s or 70s it is really slow. Dialog and and scenes are slow but it seems realistic to how the world is. I find the shooting movies of our time to be completely out of touch with reality and I find most to be unrewarding and exhausting.
Lecture 8 Notes/response
Critiques of A5
Looking at the pieces, each person had a different interpretation of the assignment but many used similar artistic effects/edit to achieve their final piece.
I liked Neil's Piece for the use of repetition and the same constant images, creating a montage of clips. It gave the feeling of a poem and a rhythm to the piece. The images in Andrews piece matched the sounds he recorded, but it still worked well in the piece. I found it interesting when Raph mentioned that sound editors often don't use the actual sound of an object to create the effects in editing, but create their own. I think back to many TV shows where u see the sound guys clicking coconuts together to create horse 'clip clips' (or Monty Python style...!) The idea of divorcing the sound form the recorded item was challenging in my piece, I would have liked to have spent more time on it and see what I could have come up with. One of my favorite pieces was Chris C.'S I like the scene with the shirts changing, I like this technique when making films, and i thought it worked well for the piece. The whole piece had a sense of time and progression. the sound gave it a feel of a video game, and your rushing to an end or to finish something, the sue of the calendar was also a clear sign of this along with the changing time of night to day form the window, and the idea of time continuing without the persons of a person.
What worked
What didn't work
Neil Shelley
I thought this piece was very psychedelic. It made it pretty interesting and I think made the piece work. The ending slowing down was a good way to end the piece. I think the effects were pretty crazy, but I think they ended up working as a whole.
Jake Williams
I thought the transitioning throughout the piece was really interesting and my favorite shot was of the ceiling fan transitioning into some sort of creepy light. I think that a lot of the shots coordinated pretty directly to his sound piece I think that worked.
Patrick GIll
I thought the theme of Patrick's was pretty cool. It was really creepy, which went well with his sound piece which had a similar feel to it. I think that the red overlay transitioning to black and white imagery worked well and the pill bottle sort gave me a feeling of narrative that the individual was on drugs.
Isaac Dupere
Isaac's video was very repetitive, it worked well in general with his sound piece which was also very reptetive. However, I feel like I agree with Raph that it could've used some variation that could've helped that piece as a whole. I also agree that the quality of the imagery was a little lacking, but I feel like that wasn't his main concern with the piece, so it wasn't a big deal to me.
I now have a pretty good understanding of the project coming up. It's have a really good idea of what I want to do and represent in my piece. I feel like the message in this piece will be represent by the sequencing of the visuals used not so much the visuals themselves. I feel like duration will also become a big factor in this as well.
I mean no offense when I say I'm still not sure if Isaac's piece was meant to trick us or not. I only suspected trickery because I can see myself attempting a similar move. Regardless of if his intent was earnest, Isaac picked the right imagery for this piece. Taking the theme of repetition to an absolute extreme could have failed miserably if the motion he chose had less subtlety to it. The motion of a hand pushing through a sleeve is a daily occurrence we never notice. This video is sort of a highlight reel of a year's worth a little thing we never notice. It was definitely a ballsy move, but It definitely got people talking and thinking, so It was a success.
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