FINISHED FILMS

B/W

I have tried the shots more vibrant for the dream like surreal shots of the characters, and changed the real life shots to black and white to capture a surrealistic vibrant eccentric feel i want the film to have

DONT HURT ME HIGH DEFINITION

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/film-exercise-symposium-what-can-the-image-do/ed-atkins-notes-on-hd

http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/images/EAtkins_Interview.pdf

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/ed-atkins-0

current interviews about HIGH DEFINITION and the ultra realistic to the point of scarily real. the use of high definition now makes standard definition 'standard,' a unused and bored film type that isn't good enough or real enough. I am deliberately using it in my practice to contradict this method, using a 'flawed' device when discussing how to rid your flaws, i think is rather amusing.

HOW NOT TO BE SEEN

http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/hito-steyerl
berlin based artist Hito Steyerl's exhibition at the ICA proved extremely humorous and influential. The works shown satirically focus on contemporary issues such as feminism and militarisation. shown in the second smaller cinema. The most influential was 'How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational' The automated voice over was hilariously dictating the audience how to disappear in the digital world, a world full of buildings and moving images. The obvious use of green screen was interesting and makes me want to attempt this for later projects. The involvment of the people, including Steyerl herself in the video is engaging and gives a familiarity to the piece. the people wearing boxes on the heads behind the green scene was entertaining.
overall the piece was enjoyable to watch and left a clear and strong impression in my head for  a weeks after. this is the effect i would like my film to present, a quality that relaxes the viewer, also annotating contemporary concern of consumerism, ideal perfection and HD (high definition). Steyerls description of the videos are also mocking a want to be invisible, producing images of a transparent man running through a sims/automated looking city, made on a computer in a video game setting.
i want my video in a similar theme, to describe how to fit in with society, specifically with certain conditions/flaws the mythical creature such as MEDUSA, PANDORA  and the SIRENS hold. it is also a satirical narrative indicating how to fit in, although the colours and vibrance to the shots i have used suggests the con tray, having the beginning images of real life dull in black and white, not to suggest the dullness of life but to excite and celebrate difference, fantasy and the surreal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBEG8tAToCA

FUZZY

Playing around with iPhoto and the effects not he face 

INFERNO

http://docusoundsbest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/lenfer-dhenri-georges-clouzot-2009.html

after watching  d'Henri-Georges Clouzot 2009 documentary about his unfinished film INFERNO, i have decide on my shots to be much more colourful and surreal. He uses coloured shots within the film to suggest the unreal, unnatural, and invented, surrealist mind. his black and white shots are to suggest real life. i like the mix of the two and the distinction nun the idea of having the real shots duller. this plays on my idea of having a alternate place involving characters, myth, surreal. i might dull down my real life shots and heighten the colours int he other shots. i also love the eyes on Clozots shots, the concentration on the face and the projections non the face creating a different mix of colours, not just one still image. i think in the sirens scene i wanted to involve more projections to make a more interesting shot. and the relation to how the film will be played on a projector, the relationship of the material in the film and showing it works well. I now want to revisit my shots and look closely at the footage i have of the eyes particularly with MEDUSAs character, as it hunk this image is extremely powerful and inviting to the viewer. I would also like to experiment longer for my next assessment with the use of filters and darker projections, although for the film i am showing i am very happy with the lighter choice as i wanted to be able to see the expression and keep the theme of humour throughout he piece.

LIFE DRAWINGS

I also presented the final drawings of my animal heads and some of my stills front he life drawing classes through out the year. I have decided i will continue to draw my animal skulls and do further studies, because i like the animalistic side of my work and this has lead nye to my final piece. i think i am most interested in the head of animals, thats were all my studies and drawings concentrate. this is a description of my practice in the sense that i like to remove that part o the human, and discover a mix of animal/human, or a mythical creature, and create stories or narrative films to do with this image. My influence of the mythical animals from GREEK MYTHOLOGY that i have been 

using to create my new films are a starting point for a part of my practice i would like to encourage and take further in my next projects over summer.  Its strange that i have no interest in doing an anatomical studio of a human head/skull, although a pheasant skull really appeals to me. i think its the shapes and the unlikeness of the finished image that i like, the soul is apparent but i think the strongest are the ones with 2 images inn them, the final ones i did that are not necessarily rushed as such but just not as thought out and lines places specifically, which i think works better and looks more sporadic, spontaneous and uncontrolled.              

FUR FOR FLOOR

We held a 'CEDARS EXHIBITON' within our halls filling two floors. I presented my rabbit furs and pheasant head. I wanted to have my rabbit furs in my film as a type of costume, as they used to be my rabbit head but i took it apart. i like the shaman quality the furs present, a rather MARCUS COATS piece.  

THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hIKKYv_3Ic

i really like the new becky and joe video, the use of costume and props are funny and simple. the childish element to there work yet verging on adult humour is a touch i want my videos to contain. 

INSTRUCTION FOR USE

I wrote the different phrases that i wanted to include in my film, and just a suggestion of the characters instead of a narrative. i decided to use the computers voice, http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/hito-steyerl influenced by the HITO STEYERL exhibitor at the ICA, which included in one of the videos a instructional voice over computer animated. i choose to use Serena the english speaking voiceover, and controlled her voice to be slow and low pitched. I wanted to use garage band to develop the voice, yet i think i want to use it properly and do an induction on how to use garage band before i use it. i then included the voiceovers with black shots with the text written clearly. this subsequently allows the 'simple' and 'instructional' effect i wanted my videos to have.