Final Project Ideas

For my final project I will use my camera to create a series of still pictures (each repeated 3 times a segment) to mimick the "video camera." I will print off each picture and make adjustments to it physically by drawing on it, or cutting things out and then running it back through a scanner. Hopefully when everything sinks up, it will give the appearance of movement. I've printed off a few things, and the whole process will be quite expensive. I'm looking at it like I'm almost "rotoscoping" imagery physically.
A scanner and a printer will be essential for this (and possibly a copying machine depending on how deep of contrast I'm going to try and achieve). The process will take a while so hopefully I can create a fairly lengthy project using this technique. I'm drawing on hand painting and "pixelation" to create the sense of movement.



This idea grew out of an extension of photocopying my face over and over and mimicking still video frames to create the sense of movement, but I believe that my way will ultimately be much more fast, certain, and cost effective.
I would probably use my cellphone but...I have no clue how to work it.

6x1 ideas for next year possibly?

I've really enjoyed all the things we've done in class. However, with the exception of the light describing a cone piece, I would have liked to have made video installations around the school. I think that would be an excellent Self-Directed-Study (if that's what it's called).
I am a big fan of gallery art, particularly with installations. I think that should be focused on, using film techniques to create something that isn't exactly a movie. As a companion piece to this, I would also like to see some discussion of VJing. My brother plays electronic music and from time to time I have tried to create visuals to fit the music, and when everything comes together it looks fantastic and it's quite a lot of fun.
Students could VJ their projects in class (as the gear can be quite expensive) or for an audience or collaboration with a musical group. We did something similiar in Dr. Kreul's class last year with the film "Christmas on Earth" where the students could change the color that the film was projecting through to create really psychadelic FXs. I think video installations and VJing should be seriously looked at because I think it's going to be one of the dominant art forms in the future.

Line Describing a Cone

I thought that this piece was really interesting. I'm not sure how you would classify it. Is it sculpture? Is it cinema?
The best part about it is the build up, and smelling that horrible fake fog build up in the room. The entire process of it really sort of shook me as to what experimental cinema could be, and I've been thinking a lot about projections and installations. I am a big fan of video art and VJing but this just seemed a bit beyond because you could actually interact with the art, not only as a finished project but also as it was forming. I think that is the future of video art and video performance. I have seen kids turn their nintendos into midi controllers and use them to score music or control visual affects.
The whole thing took on a new dimension when the cone was about halfway complete. You could see the spiral of it and look at how milky and ghostlike the fog looked. There was a great sense of motion about it, like the light was a physical presence or structure that the fog moved and rolled down.
When the spiral was finally done, it was amazing to stick your head right up in the center and look at the perfect circle of light, and be able to move through it. I particurarly enjoyed when people would stick their hands through. They just seemed to burst into the scene, and their shadows would ride back through the light as completely black.
I would be very much interested in pursuing things like professionally. It really was a lot of fun to experience.