Finishing touches..

The most annoying part of working on this video is rendering BY FAR. every time i make ANY sort of change whether it be opacity/location/length, the entire clip becomes unrendered and i have to wait for it to render all over again. i cannot figure out why this is happening but it sucks.
In the meantime.. while i wait for the render bar to finish.. ive been enjoying the benefits of grooveshark.com, way cool, based out of gainesville yay!

heres what ive been listening to recently..

also, screen shots of lots of editing!

anyways.. hope this comes out good!

Final Crits- Day 1

Kelsey Olson
i wish the beginning wasn't so ashy/grey, so i could see better. but it didnt last long.
scary fire related ritual.. subjects looks drugged/impaired. the "morning after" along with the music is fraught with flashbacks and is reminiscent of when someone is acting under some sort of spell or against their own knowledge/will. did jen sen turn into a doll??
kelsey- youre pretty good at this whole intriguing detailed film process. the way the doll crawls/moves away on the road is creepy and grotesque-looking. i feel like her limbs are broken so she cant move properly. feathers stuck on the face.. did she eat some sort of animal? tribal ritual/sacrifice/magick/voodoo.
dog! the toy dog would make the whole thing more laughable/humorous if it werent for the ominous music in the background and the continued filming style/hazy happening.

Nicole P
why the song choice? is the video just highlighting the ritual of bathing/training/your relationship with your dog? if so, what are the cords/wires for and the extra camera/tv? it seems irrelevant to the project.

Joel R
horrendously painful and amazing at the same time. a trip into every part of my brain that i avoid like the plague. i wanted to run screaming from the room but also stare openmouthed while my brain was cringing. this was definitely about excess. aghhdhhdh
all the videos starting to be the same, the music was the same,
the idea of the "formula" is DEF apparent.
all the faces are so exaggerated/in your face/flawless/very very obnoxious.
gosh pop is awfullll

Olga B
girl is creepy indeed. why is it that we've come to associate creepiness in our videos with "well done"? i felt some anxiety for the girl- something about to happen? its kinda like, the girl has a dream for a future.. as every little girl does, and something makes me think its not gonna happen for her.
most of the time i was just thinking about the same thing i think about when i watch movies with child actors. what are they told before being put into a role? and what are they thinking while acting, and do they understand whats going on or was someone just like "stand there and whatever"

Will
the ritual of recording your trip? everyone does that. remember the good times, take lots of pictures, very touristy. i dont like the discontinuity of the music, its like a badly made trip video. some footage is expected, other footage, like filming the back of a girls dress and the picture of a shower are more unexpected and break the cliche factor of a trip memoir.
titanic footage. now it looks like your cruise sank and it was a tragedy. but youre here, alive and well. i feel like that was just thrown in there.

Leslie D
was my favorite by far. the unexpected interaction between all the people was excellent. i think the most successful element was that every time there was a different sound coming from a different place it shifted your attention accordingly. also i found myself wondering where everyone was because they all had the same black background but you wonder whats around that. also it was a good choice to leave them alone because that way there wasn't any external stimuli and the subjects were self involved.

Final Project Progress..

So, today i started laying down the initial video for my previous audio project.
This is the way.. i *think* it's going to work.
My track has a base song, a sound that carries throughout the piece. To mimic this, i will have a collage of clips from the same video source/related topic to create a video version of that base song. The clips will move, change, and coincide with the changes in the audio part.
When i'm done laying down the base video, i will take other videos plus my own footage and start creating layers. These layers will mimic the other components of the audio piece, such as the phonograph scratches, the radio transmission static, etc.
In this way, the video piece will coincide with the audio and the viewer's brain will be able to make an actual connection and in a way, be 'taken and lead by a hand'- every time they hear a new sound, they will have some sort of visual change to accompany it.

back to work!

Final Project Thought Strings!

So, i've decided to go with the option of adding video to our previous sound project. I was thinking about the crit and how people said the track reminded them of being suspended in time, or being suspended in liquid, as we are in the womb. I liked how the sound gave the effect of moving through time- ("old radio transmission coming to us after a long time"-victoria)

the voice can be soothing and relaxing but they're also low-pitched and therefore slightly creepy.

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pollution: air noise

womb

being born in fluids

being born, suffocating, coming into ourselves, made to breathe oxygen

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so i found clips on youtube of Planet Earth- they showed deep sea creatures moving through the dark depths of the ocean and the movement went nicely with the sound..

the manipulated betty boop tune at the beginning makes for a good intro, i could start with images or something more stimulating then a slow moving video, and then cut to a different scene when the song shifts.

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cymatics- the study of visible sound and vibration.

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collaging of footage, slow motion, sections that fall out of/ break up the pattern..

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Still Thinking.

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