For my final videos i wanted to pick the ones that present all the different aspects of a bus journey. From looking out the window, sitting inside the bus, and also getting off the bus, i wanted to present these different aspects in a different and unique was to make my work a physical experience for the audience.
My final 5 are:
Monday, 9 January 2012
Friday, 6 January 2012
On the inside
Here i decided to focus more on the inside of the bus, as well as leaving the bus. I wanted to bring forward the rhythm and motions that happen while on the bus, as well as leaving the bus.
With the footage below i decided to begin slow and then throw the audience into an never ending loop:
I do like the simplicity of this because it does draw your eye to the window and you find yourself looking out of the window along with the other passengers.
This one i feel is also simple, and very much just a simple repetitive loop, Its good but i feel i can do much better than this:
The footage below i have to say is my favorite of this group of videos. The way it feels so physical as the passenger drops, you can feel the beat within yourself as you watch it:
Why i feel this is successful is because of how smooth the loop is, and how repetitive it is without being too much.
With the footage below i decided to begin slow and then throw the audience into an never ending loop:
I wanted to do this because with my other videos its normally the video begins as a loop and then finishes, rewarding the viewer after the ordeal. Whereas with this i wanted to put them into a false sense of calm and then be thrown into the never ending repetitiveness.
With this footage i decided to just keep the sound and footage from one clip, and just show it as it really is, without any manipulation:
I do like the simplicity of this because it does draw your eye to the window and you find yourself looking out of the window along with the other passengers.
This one i feel is also simple, and very much just a simple repetitive loop, Its good but i feel i can do much better than this:
The footage below i have to say is my favorite of this group of videos. The way it feels so physical as the passenger drops, you can feel the beat within yourself as you watch it:
Why i feel this is successful is because of how smooth the loop is, and how repetitive it is without being too much.
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
A different approach
I have been mainly focusing on buses in Manchester, and mainly just out of the window, so i wanted to experiment with a different setting and other things besides buses to just see how to would turn out.
Here, instead of being on the top deck i decided to try filming downstairs:
Here i experimented with slowing down the video:
This isn't as smooth as i wanted it to be..so i feel this effect doesn't really work too well.
Doing something i hadn't thought of doing before, i decided to turn the film sideways to see how this would work..i like how it makes you slowly turn your head to the side:
I feel this one is quite headache inducing, but still, its good to experiment!:
Now, here i stepped away from working with buses and just wanted to try something a bit different. Here i filmed an undeground train just from the side, capturing the speed and colours flashing by, i didn't want to use any sound because i didnt think i would persue this idea i just wanted to give it a go:
I havent really filmed at night, but here i had an opertunity to do so. I Mirrored the subject because i wanted it to be a never ending journey that no matter how you look at it, your going to be on the bus for awhile:
Mirror.Red - I like this video mainly because its like the tow busses are merging into one, making it one continous red bus:
With this one it gives a feeling of your heart beating along with the video, the movement and sound really makes it feel like you are moving along with it:
I wanted this one to work because the idea in my head seemed a lot better! The first few seconds were exactly what i wanted, but then merging all the clips together it didn't do what i wanted. If it were as smooth as the first few seconds through it, it would of been better:
Lastly, i tried something i had never done before, turning it on its head! I wanted to see what it would be like if i turned the film upside down, and i feel it works really well. It begins to create its own rhythm which i really enjoy:
i feel that turning the film upside down or sideways is really working well, and I also feel that using a mirror image is something i should continue with.
Here, instead of being on the top deck i decided to try filming downstairs:
Here i experimented with slowing down the video:
This isn't as smooth as i wanted it to be..so i feel this effect doesn't really work too well.
Doing something i hadn't thought of doing before, i decided to turn the film sideways to see how this would work..i like how it makes you slowly turn your head to the side:
I feel this one is quite headache inducing, but still, its good to experiment!:
Now, here i stepped away from working with buses and just wanted to try something a bit different. Here i filmed an undeground train just from the side, capturing the speed and colours flashing by, i didn't want to use any sound because i didnt think i would persue this idea i just wanted to give it a go:
I havent really filmed at night, but here i had an opertunity to do so. I Mirrored the subject because i wanted it to be a never ending journey that no matter how you look at it, your going to be on the bus for awhile:
Mirror.Red - I like this video mainly because its like the tow busses are merging into one, making it one continous red bus:
With this one it gives a feeling of your heart beating along with the video, the movement and sound really makes it feel like you are moving along with it:
I wanted this one to work because the idea in my head seemed a lot better! The first few seconds were exactly what i wanted, but then merging all the clips together it didn't do what i wanted. If it were as smooth as the first few seconds through it, it would of been better:
Lastly, i tried something i had never done before, turning it on its head! I wanted to see what it would be like if i turned the film upside down, and i feel it works really well. It begins to create its own rhythm which i really enjoy:
i feel that turning the film upside down or sideways is really working well, and I also feel that using a mirror image is something i should continue with.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Group feedback
I felt kind of comfortable with my work, but also a bit stuck as i didn't know what else i could do to further it. Through having group feedback i gained some useful ideas.
I couldn't actually find the video of this, but from the screen shots i can see and see the intense emotion from this couple. The simplicity of the scene adds to the normality yet fairy tale like atmosphere.
- Images and film together
- Try reversing the film/sound
- Slow the voices down to see what effect that gives
- create my own conversations from segments of other conversations
- try filming on a roundabout
- film getting on and off the bus
- down and up the stairs
- film out of the back window
- reward the audience with getting off the bus, a narrative
Michael Holden
I was told to look at Holden due to his coloum in the gardian about conversations entitles 'All ears'. I find it so interesting! I like the idea of overhearing these sentences said by people that are kind of taken completely out of context and just left there on there own to make of them what you want.
Printing sponsored by:
Michael Holden's All ears
'I had a week of it, scuttling about, laughing at me. So I went to the pound shop and got some traps'
All ears. Illustration: Andy Watt
There's a lot of stuff in the ether lately about trying to vanquish animals. Maybe it's a
recession thing, that our confidence is down as a species. Perhaps we're not the
evolutionary big dogs we thought we were. Certainly the man sat by me in the pub was
struggling with his status as an apex predator.
Man 1 "I had a week of it, scuttling about, laughing at me. So I went to the pound shop
and got some traps."
Man 2 (feeding a child in a pram but listening in) "You wanna try peanut butter."
Man 1 "Well the cheese didn't work. I wanted one of them old-fashioned traps, you
know?"
Man 3 "Your classic mousetrap – bang!"
Man 1 "Exactly, but they didn't have any, and it turns out these things I've bought are
for rats, so the mice don't trigger it."
Man 2 "Peanut butter."
Man 1 "I went back to the shop and in the end the fella gives me these glue traps, says
they're the ones. I've spent about 11 quid in there now, and this is the pound shop."
Man 3 "How do they work?"
Man 1 "Humanely, they say. But this is the thing. In the morning the thing's just laying
there, looking up at me, its little feet stuck fast in this glue, like when you get a CD stuck
to a magazine, and it was shivering."
Man 3 "So what do you do, kill it?"
Man 1 (wincing at the memory) "I couldn't. I had to peel it off."
Man 3 "And then what?"
Man 1 (appalled with himself) "I chucked it in a bush and walked to work."
Man 3 (in the "I told you so" style) "Peanut butter …"
- © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
Melanie Manchot
Melanie Manchot is a London-based artist who explores portraiture as a performative and participatory practice. Working with photography, film and video, her projects often propose constructed events or situations in public spaces and from engaging explorations into our individual and collective identities.
Kiss, 2009, 16mm Film, 10'18", Stereo Sound
''‘Kiss’ is a 16mm film, which concentrates on one of the gestures most intrinsic to cinematic language: the kiss. The work is filmed as an uncut ten-minute observation of a seemingly endless kiss on the topdeck of a London double-decker bus. Disengaged from their immediate environment, a young couple begins an intimate game of desire. The camera follows waves of desire, at times verging on pain and aggression then again full of joy and lightness. Kiss forms part of a trilogy of 16mm films each of which focuses on one gestures that occurs between two people temporarily isolated within the public environment they find themselves in. Each of the films is based on a real life experience and is reconstructed with non-actors in the original locations, consciously playing on the ambiguity between a documentary mode and a staged event''. - http://www.melaniemanchot.net/category/kiss/
I couldn't actually find the video of this, but from the screen shots i can see and see the intense emotion from this couple. The simplicity of the scene adds to the normality yet fairy tale like atmosphere.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Rhythm
Here i mainly focused on creating rhythm within a journey. Through using about 2 seconds of footage and looping it to create a continuous image, along with the repetitive sounds of the journey within the bus i created this videos.
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Research
As i am going to be continuing my development of Bus Journeys, i'm researching reference artists to learn how to better my work.
John Smith
John Smith is an award winning avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator’s conditioned assumptions of the medium. he effortlessly mixes innovative use of moving image, often playing with the way that the soundtrack and images combine. His work is very strong conceptually, and contains a lot of passion. Noted works include The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1987), The Kiss (1999) and Blight (1999).
“In The Black Tower we enter the world of a man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around London. While the character of the central protagonist is indicated only by a narrative voice-over which takes us from unease to breakdown to mysterious death, the images, meticulously controlled and articulated, deliver a series of colour coded puzzles, jokes and puns which pull the viewer into a mind-teasing engagement. Smith’s assurance and skill as a filmmaker undercuts the notion of the avant-garde as dry, unprofessional and dull and in The Black Tower we have an example of a film which plays with the emotions as well as the language of film.” — Nik Houghton, Independent Media.
Bill Viola
He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach. For 40 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. Viola’s video installations—total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound—employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide and are found in many distinguished collections. - http://www.billviola.com/biograph.htm
Candas Sisman
Involved with spur of the moment event, Sisman incorporates abstract narrative language, his works contain a naivety and simplicity in contradiction with the commotion and ideology of life in general. These ‘events’ that emerge are tossed into the open by passing them through an emotional and perceptual filter of data and situations in the external world without preponderance. His works are a momentary / flow related audiovisual process
People start recognizing they are nothing when depth of their awareness enhances.’’ Its the nothingness within the most intricate details that allow for his complex simplicity. - http://vimeo.com/csisman
Retory
visuals : candas sisman - http://csismn.com/
sounds : mix - candas sisman
The emotional changing process of a concrete and mechanic structure gradually becoming organic and abstract.With together this process , retory is searching for how to explain that beauty of contrast emotion at the same time in audiovisual language .
Edicisum
directed by Candas Sisman - http://csismn.com
soundtrack by Isambard Khroustaliov
Patrick Bergeron
''Video artist and researcher, I modify and manipulate the image and its details. Exploring the concepts of speed, time and memories, my work is a mix of animation, experimental film and documentary''. Patrick Bergeron
LoopLoop from Patrick Bergeron on Vimeo.
Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.
LoopLoop, 5 minutes video loop.
Cars ... from Patrick Bergeron on Vimeo.
Cars ... global financial crisis, Cars ... global warming, Cars ... emerging countries, Who are driving those cars?
Seoul by night, the cars appear, disappear, merge, ...
creating an hypnotic and recurring movement.
I like here the use of looping a lot of films together along with the sound track of what he is recording.
Here is a video i found from a person called Mustardcuffins. What i like about this video is the way it makes you feel as if you are physically moving through the city, and you are viewing what the camera is viewing. Its a very physical experience and this is what i find very entertaining about this.
Drift from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.
I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.
"Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams" - Ivan ChtcheglovThis film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation. - http://vimeo.com/7231932
A visual artist using traditional media and generative computer code. Beauty, contradictions, search of meanings, the illusion of control in a world much governed by randomness and the elusive nature of emotions are recurring ideas in my work.
Content is Queen from Sergio Albiac on Vimeo.
"Content is Queen" is a video art series of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy and the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, it is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and the utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that "paints" with action the portrait of the Queen.
On a technical level, this piece is a result of my research in breaking the limitations of the static image in a contemporary revision of the tradition of painting. The portraits are created using an innovative generative technique that I have developed called "generative video painting". It differs from previous attempts of video collage (like the techniques developed by David Hockney, mixing simultaneous points of view of an action) or video mosaic (where still images are represented by whole videos acting as pixels when properly reduced in size). My technique uses regions of video content to effectively represent or "paint" heterogeneous regions of the image. Both the partial content of the videos and the whole image are fully visible at the same time, widening the possibilities to deliver meaning in a contemporary aesthetic language. - http://vimeo.com/24065726
John Smith
John Smith is an award winning avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator’s conditioned assumptions of the medium. he effortlessly mixes innovative use of moving image, often playing with the way that the soundtrack and images combine. His work is very strong conceptually, and contains a lot of passion. Noted works include The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1987), The Kiss (1999) and Blight (1999).
United Kingdom 1987 24 Min Color English
“In The Black Tower we enter the world of a man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around London. While the character of the central protagonist is indicated only by a narrative voice-over which takes us from unease to breakdown to mysterious death, the images, meticulously controlled and articulated, deliver a series of colour coded puzzles, jokes and puns which pull the viewer into a mind-teasing engagement. Smith’s assurance and skill as a filmmaker undercuts the notion of the avant-garde as dry, unprofessional and dull and in The Black Tower we have an example of a film which plays with the emotions as well as the language of film.” — Nik Houghton, Independent Media.
Bill Viola
He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach. For 40 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. Viola’s video installations—total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound—employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide and are found in many distinguished collections. - http://www.billviola.com/biograph.htm
Candas Sisman
Involved with spur of the moment event, Sisman incorporates abstract narrative language, his works contain a naivety and simplicity in contradiction with the commotion and ideology of life in general. These ‘events’ that emerge are tossed into the open by passing them through an emotional and perceptual filter of data and situations in the external world without preponderance. His works are a momentary / flow related audiovisual process
People start recognizing they are nothing when depth of their awareness enhances.’’ Its the nothingness within the most intricate details that allow for his complex simplicity. - http://vimeo.com/csisman
Retory
visuals : candas sisman - http://csismn.com/
sounds : mix - candas sisman
The emotional changing process of a concrete and mechanic structure gradually becoming organic and abstract.With together this process , retory is searching for how to explain that beauty of contrast emotion at the same time in audiovisual language .
Edicisum
directed by Candas Sisman - http://csismn.com
soundtrack by Isambard Khroustaliov
Patrick Bergeron
''Video artist and researcher, I modify and manipulate the image and its details. Exploring the concepts of speed, time and memories, my work is a mix of animation, experimental film and documentary''. Patrick Bergeron
LoopLoop from Patrick Bergeron on Vimeo.
Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.
LoopLoop, 5 minutes video loop.
Cars ... from Patrick Bergeron on Vimeo.
Cars ... global financial crisis, Cars ... global warming, Cars ... emerging countries, Who are driving those cars?
Seoul by night, the cars appear, disappear, merge, ...
creating an hypnotic and recurring movement.
I like here the use of looping a lot of films together along with the sound track of what he is recording.
Here is a video i found from a person called Mustardcuffins. What i like about this video is the way it makes you feel as if you are physically moving through the city, and you are viewing what the camera is viewing. Its a very physical experience and this is what i find very entertaining about this.
Drift from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.
I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.
"Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams" - Ivan ChtcheglovThis film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation. - http://vimeo.com/7231932
Sergio Albiac
A visual artist using traditional media and generative computer code. Beauty, contradictions, search of meanings, the illusion of control in a world much governed by randomness and the elusive nature of emotions are recurring ideas in my work.
Content is Queen from Sergio Albiac on Vimeo.
"Content is Queen" is a video art series of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy and the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, it is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and the utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that "paints" with action the portrait of the Queen.
On a technical level, this piece is a result of my research in breaking the limitations of the static image in a contemporary revision of the tradition of painting. The portraits are created using an innovative generative technique that I have developed called "generative video painting". It differs from previous attempts of video collage (like the techniques developed by David Hockney, mixing simultaneous points of view of an action) or video mosaic (where still images are represented by whole videos acting as pixels when properly reduced in size). My technique uses regions of video content to effectively represent or "paint" heterogeneous regions of the image. Both the partial content of the videos and the whole image are fully visible at the same time, widening the possibilities to deliver meaning in a contemporary aesthetic language. - http://vimeo.com/24065726
Group Feedback
Through taking part in group feedback i have gained some ideas as to where i should take my work. I have decided to leave the idea of plastic bags and just focus on my work with journey and buses.
Through the feedback i have learnt that my work was more successful when just focusing on the sounds of the bus and the rhythm. Through looping footage and sound into a rhythmic piece, seems to be the most successful approach.
The more successful pieces:
Through the feedback i have learnt that my work was more successful when just focusing on the sounds of the bus and the rhythm. Through looping footage and sound into a rhythmic piece, seems to be the most successful approach.
The more successful pieces:
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