The beat of the counting was again like the photographs before, too samey and a bit boring, and wasn't into the whole sort of remixing and rewinding and all that stuff...
So i came up with the video first now, and ive tried to make the sound fit around that...still couting at a beat though.
The first sequence of the photographs are the outlines of the larger window panes, during this there is a steady 1-10 beat, it last for around 38 seconds.. which might seem long. I want to start off with a really boring slow pace, for it the to pick up and quicken and for the mood to change to an angry one.
The next sequence still has the 1-10 steady counting over, but the photographs are at a faster speed so it is now out of sync. I then turn down the volume for the 1-10 beat and have a voice over "I dont know why, i just do... i cant stop" After this the volume for the beat goes back up.
I then say "i think about the lines and the shapes. How many are there?"
The yellow scribbles then come into play, 1-10 beat still going. Voice over saying "sometimes i have to start all over again.. and again... and again" (getting more angrier..well trying ha)
At this point the animation stops, and rewinds back on itself to the begining of the yellow scribbles. And the same part is played again.. almost like a deja vu, and a play on 'sometimes i have to start all over again.. and again..'
The larger blue sribbles then come into it, and are at a much steadier slower pace. The 1-10 beat is still going but a voice over of "1...2...3...4...5..." is going on and is out of sync, which annoys me and that bit starts again.. and it said slower to be sure that i'm counting it right.
After the blue section is finished, voice over says "i can't help it..its just uncontrollable"
The black zig zag type scribbles come into it and completely deface the image.
I then say "sometimes i have to start all over again.." and then the whole sequence from the begining is played with each frame a 1/10 of a second. The 1-10 beat is still going, and then a scribble sound is made- with an angry "uff"
The screen then goes black, its the end and the counting still goes on through the credits to show it never stops...
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Sound sound sound sound
SOUND
I've been thinking about sound constantly throughout the past few posts and have an idea of what is is i'm going to do.
I want to have a whisper of me counting to 1-10 at a steady pace so that it matches up with the crossing off/scribbles within the photographs. I'm going to try and make it so that it sounds like a beat as I don't want to put any music into my piece.. too distracting and i don't deem it relevant either? Ok, on with that
I've been thinking about sound constantly throughout the past few posts and have an idea of what is is i'm going to do.
I want to have a whisper of me counting to 1-10 at a steady pace so that it matches up with the crossing off/scribbles within the photographs. I'm going to try and make it so that it sounds like a beat as I don't want to put any music into my piece.. too distracting and i don't deem it relevant either? Ok, on with that
Ok so here i've changed the colour from black scribbles to a navy-blue, as i thought as an end result the photograph would look more disturbing and defaced if it were covered in black.. rather than blue. Makes sense. And i've also changed the order to a random mix, rather than the samey left or right, left to right, left to right stuff (Just for this part and after though that is).
The scribbles are starting to become more fierce as well and not just swirly scribbles, but start to take on a zig zag type form.
Steo by step it becomes more defaced. The voice over 1-10 still going on.
This being the end result now, instead of the previous post. It looks far more menacing and maybe even serious? being black, sinister perhaps too.
I'm really happy with the changes i made, and im not going to put them in FinalCut Pro and think about sound now too.
The scribbles are starting to become more fierce as well and not just swirly scribbles, but start to take on a zig zag type form.
Steo by step it becomes more defaced. The voice over 1-10 still going on.
This being the end result now, instead of the previous post. It looks far more menacing and maybe even serious? being black, sinister perhaps too.
I'm really happy with the changes i made, and im not going to put them in FinalCut Pro and think about sound now too.
As you can see, these photographs below are the ones i've started to edit. The top photograph in the top left hand corner has a red line going down the side of the window frame, and the second photograph across the top.
The idea so far is to have a short stop frame animation sequence of these stills, going along that i'm drawing around them. Over the top is a voice over of me counting 1-10 repeatedly (i'm going to do a seperate post on sound later)
After counting round the edges, one by one like above, i start to tick of each individual smaller window, shown below (thats the final photo though).
As i start to get more frustrated with the counting, i start crossing the window panes out angrily. The voice over of 1-10 is still going by this stage.
Then i start scribbling off bigger chunks of the photograph
Until it gradually becomes completely defaced and unrecogoniseable, showing my utter frustration at this ocd.
I'm quite happy with these photo's, except for when the black scribbles come into play after the yellow ones. Up until that point, all the windows have been scribbled/crossed off from top left to bottom right and the sequence started to become boring and it didn't seem new.
So im now going to change it up a bit and see where that takes me.
The idea so far is to have a short stop frame animation sequence of these stills, going along that i'm drawing around them. Over the top is a voice over of me counting 1-10 repeatedly (i'm going to do a seperate post on sound later)
After counting round the edges, one by one like above, i start to tick of each individual smaller window, shown below (thats the final photo though).
As i start to get more frustrated with the counting, i start crossing the window panes out angrily. The voice over of 1-10 is still going by this stage.
Then i start scribbling off bigger chunks of the photograph
Until it gradually becomes completely defaced and unrecogoniseable, showing my utter frustration at this ocd.
I'm quite happy with these photo's, except for when the black scribbles come into play after the yellow ones. Up until that point, all the windows have been scribbled/crossed off from top left to bottom right and the sequence started to become boring and it didn't seem new.
So im now going to change it up a bit and see where that takes me.
Top of car park stuff, photographs
This is the set of stills from top of the car park, is the same idea. These top 3 photo's, i tried to do a stop frame animation type thing with them but hadn't taken the photo's right and the angles looked really odd so had to scrap that. I could go back and re shoot them though.
The middle red brick building photo was right next to the Gursky council building, and i had an idea of panning from building to building, but because of the huge difference in size, the edits and cuts just looked a little too weird and didn't somehow fit together.
The bottom 3 photo's were also taken from the car park roof. I particularly like the middle one of these 3 and have started to draw around them, playing around in FinalCut Pro to make a little stop frame ani.
In the next post i'll put them up in a sort of sequence so you can see.
The middle red brick building photo was right next to the Gursky council building, and i had an idea of panning from building to building, but because of the huge difference in size, the edits and cuts just looked a little too weird and didn't somehow fit together.
The bottom 3 photo's were also taken from the car park roof. I particularly like the middle one of these 3 and have started to draw around them, playing around in FinalCut Pro to make a little stop frame ani.
In the next post i'll put them up in a sort of sequence so you can see.
Top of car park stuff
So i went back to the car park roof and filmed that building i shot in the Gursky shoot. I panned from left- right and i put a voice over of me counting steady
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10
11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20
It then cuts to the sky, showing a break.. my mind wandered. And then cuts back to the shot like below starting the counting again
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10
11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20
Not really feeling that enthusiastic about this idea to be honest, well not the idea but just the way ive gone about filming. I hadn't really planned, just had a rough idea in my head so when it came to edit i kind of hand no plan and did anything with it really..which was rubbish. Urg so annoying. I guess this is part of the experimentation then, trial and error.
This being the error.
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10
11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20
It then cuts to the sky, showing a break.. my mind wandered. And then cuts back to the shot like below starting the counting again
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10
11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20
Not really feeling that enthusiastic about this idea to be honest, well not the idea but just the way ive gone about filming. I hadn't really planned, just had a rough idea in my head so when it came to edit i kind of hand no plan and did anything with it really..which was rubbish. Urg so annoying. I guess this is part of the experimentation then, trial and error.
This being the error.
Alyssa monks
Not project related at all.. but i like
http://www.booooooom.com/2010/01/18/artist-painter-alyssa-monks/
www.booooooom.com is amaaaazing
http://www.booooooom.com/2010/01/18/artist-painter-alyssa-monks/
www.booooooom.com is amaaaazing
Ideasideasideasideas
Ideas a brewing!
When writing this all down it sounds so crazy.. and i now feel very self conscience of it..
So then, i think i might do a piece on this, get inside my own head, try and figure out why i do this? Ive got a few ideas/possible images that have already popped into my head...
-repeated sounds/ images
-buildings, streets, urban environment
-text/numbers
-flashes of images; walls, chair legs, shelves.. mundane images
-contrasted with simple peaceful images ie the sky
-structured geometric frames, lines, shapes etc.
Right then now what?
????????????????????
I want to go back to that car park roof.. where I shot those Gurskey photo's. I have an idea of panning across that, think i maybe mentioned that in the post? So panning of that building, with a sort of voice over counting, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. With a build up, rhythm, pace, beat going along with it.
How would it resolve?
I'd try it getting faster and faster until nothing? Bit of an anti climax but there is so resolve in this for me anyway! Ermm i could try contrasting it, having a peaceful mind one second, then the counting starts.. film bits of sky, interrupted by counting, no fading or effects, just cut it blunt.
Could do a sort of stop frame animation of a building.. drawing around the edges (what i do in my mind anyway), again with a beat behind it, bits of video of sky, sounds of birds etc.
Ok, that's enough of thinking, im going to go out and take photo's/ film bits of video with these ideas in mind.
When writing this all down it sounds so crazy.. and i now feel very self conscience of it..
So then, i think i might do a piece on this, get inside my own head, try and figure out why i do this? Ive got a few ideas/possible images that have already popped into my head...
-repeated sounds/ images
-buildings, streets, urban environment
-text/numbers
-flashes of images; walls, chair legs, shelves.. mundane images
-contrasted with simple peaceful images ie the sky
-structured geometric frames, lines, shapes etc.
Right then now what?
????????????????????
I want to go back to that car park roof.. where I shot those Gurskey photo's. I have an idea of panning across that, think i maybe mentioned that in the post? So panning of that building, with a sort of voice over counting, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. With a build up, rhythm, pace, beat going along with it.
How would it resolve?
I'd try it getting faster and faster until nothing? Bit of an anti climax but there is so resolve in this for me anyway! Ermm i could try contrasting it, having a peaceful mind one second, then the counting starts.. film bits of sky, interrupted by counting, no fading or effects, just cut it blunt.
Could do a sort of stop frame animation of a building.. drawing around the edges (what i do in my mind anyway), again with a beat behind it, bits of video of sky, sounds of birds etc.
Ok, that's enough of thinking, im going to go out and take photo's/ film bits of video with these ideas in mind.
Counting Obsession
As i've mentioned quite a bit, I want to do a piece/project on something personal and meaningful. Ive had this obsession or ocd or whatever for as along as i can remember with counting things. It's something i don't even realise i'm doing, and when i do realise i can't just stop, my mind is never rested. The thing about the way in which i count is that it's of completley random things- the outlines of things.
So like for example, say a chest of drawers has 3 drawers, I'd count the outside of each drawer which is 4. So in total the drawers would make it 12 (3x4). Then i'd add each drawer to make 15. This is what's the most annoying thing about this obsession, is that i can't stop at 15, it has to be an even number ending in 0, so 10, 20, 30 etc for example. I can't just leave it at 15, or something like 23.. it makes me feel like i haven't finished something, a bit uneasy. So because of this, i'd find something else on the chest of drawers so make the numbers up. Each remaining side of the chest of drawers; top, bottom, back, left and right make it to 20.
And then i start counting the same thing all over again.
I do it mostly when sitting still like in the car for example, or watching t.v and if something comes up on a programme/ film, in a lecture, on the bus, i do it walking to places.. basically all the time, it never stops.
As crazy as it sounds, i even have favourite things to count, or things i prefer to count should i say..
>windows when im in the car
>a face- 2 eyes, 2 eyebrows, 2 nostrils, 2 lips, 2ears = 10
>any general geometric shape.. i don't like counting things with rounded edges (i think its not fair.. don't ask.)
So like for example, say a chest of drawers has 3 drawers, I'd count the outside of each drawer which is 4. So in total the drawers would make it 12 (3x4). Then i'd add each drawer to make 15. This is what's the most annoying thing about this obsession, is that i can't stop at 15, it has to be an even number ending in 0, so 10, 20, 30 etc for example. I can't just leave it at 15, or something like 23.. it makes me feel like i haven't finished something, a bit uneasy. So because of this, i'd find something else on the chest of drawers so make the numbers up. Each remaining side of the chest of drawers; top, bottom, back, left and right make it to 20.
And then i start counting the same thing all over again.
I do it mostly when sitting still like in the car for example, or watching t.v and if something comes up on a programme/ film, in a lecture, on the bus, i do it walking to places.. basically all the time, it never stops.
As crazy as it sounds, i even have favourite things to count, or things i prefer to count should i say..
>windows when im in the car
>a face- 2 eyes, 2 eyebrows, 2 nostrils, 2 lips, 2ears = 10
>any general geometric shape.. i don't like counting things with rounded edges (i think its not fair.. don't ask.)
Gursky try..
After looking at Andreas Gursky i scouted around Leicester to see if any building here could match up, or at least come close (unlikely). I found a council building, although the day was dull and so was the brickwork, nothing like the illuminant colouring in Gurskey's work.. obviouslly.
So below are a few shots I took.. I do love the symmetry and i'm amazed at how many windows there are in this building, it really is huge.
I thought the photo shoot went okay, but not really happy with lighting and colouring etc. too dull, bland, boring of a building and day for that matter.. that I can't help. The building itself though is brilliant, i'd go back on another day, bit sunnier perhaps. Or maybe even at night, that would be so much better actually. Could include it as part of video.. a pan? Scale is quite big. Anyway, below are a few of the photographs.......
So below are a few shots I took.. I do love the symmetry and i'm amazed at how many windows there are in this building, it really is huge.
I thought the photo shoot went okay, but not really happy with lighting and colouring etc. too dull, bland, boring of a building and day for that matter.. that I can't help. The building itself though is brilliant, i'd go back on another day, bit sunnier perhaps. Or maybe even at night, that would be so much better actually. Could include it as part of video.. a pan? Scale is quite big. Anyway, below are a few of the photographs.......
stanley kubrick 1928-199
An American film director, producer and photographer with a very artistic mind frame and careful, thoughtful way of working. Most famous for films such as The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket.
Ive been watching a few of his films recently, well The Shining and with all this thought of symmetry and angles, and a careful way of looking and viewing things.. I've completely fell in love with his work all over again. With symmetry, The Shining in particular, it creates such an eerie and horrible feeling, creates such suspense and atmosphere (compiled with the music obviously) that I was just took a back and see symmetry in a whole different genre.
Below are a few stills from The Shining as well as A Clockwork Orange and 2001.
And also that creepy scene from The Shining *shudder*
Andreas Gursky
German visual artist b.1955. In the early 1980s Gursky studied at Germany's State Art Academy, the Kunstakedemie Dusseldof, and it is here where he was trained and taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher (see previous posts).
Best known for his enormous high quality colour photographs with amazing detail, he captures man made structures such as office buildings, stock exchanges, car parks.. anything with great scale. The way they are presented in galleries and such are about 119 x 81 inches, so pretty grand on scale. They are usually in a light box too, and you can see such little detail due to this.
He is currently represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and Spruth Magers Berlin London in Europe.
http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=136&im=1
What I love about his work is the pure quality of such an image, quality in terms of the vibrant colours presented as well as the smaller details. I also love the structure and stern geometric simple shapes laid before, with more complex shapes and happenings going on within them. I'd really like to produce work on this sort of level, but equipment costs and set up costs would be impossible, as well as traveling as no where around me has amazing buildings such as these below!
Best known for his enormous high quality colour photographs with amazing detail, he captures man made structures such as office buildings, stock exchanges, car parks.. anything with great scale. The way they are presented in galleries and such are about 119 x 81 inches, so pretty grand on scale. They are usually in a light box too, and you can see such little detail due to this.
He is currently represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and Spruth Magers Berlin London in Europe.
http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=136&im=1
What I love about his work is the pure quality of such an image, quality in terms of the vibrant colours presented as well as the smaller details. I also love the structure and stern geometric simple shapes laid before, with more complex shapes and happenings going on within them. I'd really like to produce work on this sort of level, but equipment costs and set up costs would be impossible, as well as traveling as no where around me has amazing buildings such as these below!
Observing stuff
Just some symmetry and patterns i photographed.. repeated shapes in buildings and that, whilst on my way to uni.
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