Getting there...

The last clips and images for our video were taken yesterday. We managed to alter all of them in IPhoto which was actually so much fun! They were then imported into IMovie and we started to put them into a suitable sequence. We've been working on the video all day today and have made quite some progress, its just way too long at the moment cause of the amount of pictures we have. And theres only a few transitions and effects that are suitable for our video without making it look daft, so its been kind of difficult trying to make sections look different while using the same ones.

Making The Video

We decided the other day on the final ideas for our video, the themes being 'Lack of Communication' and 'Ignorance in Society'. The idea is basically, two people who know eachother yet seem to not want to know eachother, so whenever they come in contact they simply ignore eachother. Trine and I came to this idea by a few conversations we've had in the past surrounding the fact that we've had experiences with people who choose to continuely ignoring us for some reason or another even when they know you. For example, you could have a flatmate, who you live with and see everyday, yet they wont even make eye-contact, let alone say something. And i've wondered what it is that makes someone blatantly ignore you even when they know who you are - is it shyness? is it simply ignorance? not knowing what to say? why is there this lack of communication? Whatever it is, it is nevertheless annoying and we feel it is visible in today's society. So, we tried to illustrate the idea of two people (Trine and myself) living in similar environments, having the same routines/habits, meeting in many situations, noticing eachother, yet are never able to bring themselves to say something.
We started taking photos and mini video clips around uni in places we would likely bump into eachother eg. passing eachother in the corridors or street, at a bus stop, in a cafe, in the library, in the park, jogging. (We got some strange looks off of people but that just added more humour to our day.)
The images we've got with be edited in colour and quality and imported into IMovie.

Some Inspiring Images

Researched images which we liked the look of, and would like to achieve similar effects in our own images. Imported some of these images into IMovie and distorted them, making a mini video, just to see what kind of effects we could get. We're going to start taking pictures and short videos of ourselves, distorting them on IMovie, and building up our final video.

More Ideas

Link to a video by Adam Chapman. He deconstructs movies and uses selected clips to make a new movie...

http://www.adamchapmanart.com/video/rope_frame.html

An installation by Jennifer Steinkamp - The Wreck of the Dumaru

I like how she manipulates the seascape so its like an animation with the vivid and eccentric colours.

Been thinking about the project, but obviously no real progress can be made until Trine and I see eachother again. I've been looking at work from artists to try and get some inspiration and ideas for what we could do, and I like the idea of using a digital camera to capture images, but changing the settings so the outcome is different. I had taken several pictures, experimenting with different settings, but unfortunately the memory card was playing up, so I couldnt transfer them onto the computer and they were lost (its my brother's camera, so i'll just blame him!) While messing about, a couple interesting pictures did get taken, so when doing the actual project, I hope to capture similar effects.