How to show video ?
Originally thinking of playing it on a Mac for assessment: so I needed to burn the video to DVD. Couldn't get it to loop on DVD. As it turned out I didn't need to: for the Degree show it can go on a film reel edited by Martin Thomas.
For assessment I will show retina photographs and have all my video work on a memory stick.
Monday, 18 May 2015
Saturday, 16 May 2015
Continuing technical issues with Photoshop and Premiere
Learned how to make circle templates in Photoshop, save as PSD file,which could then be taken into Premiere and dragged over the top of a video.
Issues with size of template: larger one didn't work as its top and bottom were cut off.
Issues of re-sizing the templated videos to make them equal.
Learned how to play two or more videos at the same time in Premiere.
Learned how to crop each video to fit it in using safe margins to show the centre of the screen.
Also how to apply crop effect; not to whole movie but to each clip at a time.
Issues with the circle templates having bits cut out of them due to positioning: never really understood why...
Issues of sizing of the circle videos: smaller, larger or equal.
Applying cross dissolve and timing between each video.
Effects Mask; to apply an effect to a specific part of a video
Saving everything as Quicktime videos so can be seen on Macs.
Tried experimenting with layering videos but couldn't keep the circles clear.
Issues with size of template: larger one didn't work as its top and bottom were cut off.
Issues of re-sizing the templated videos to make them equal.
Learned how to play two or more videos at the same time in Premiere.
Learned how to crop each video to fit it in using safe margins to show the centre of the screen.
Also how to apply crop effect; not to whole movie but to each clip at a time.
Issues with the circle templates having bits cut out of them due to positioning: never really understood why...
Issues of sizing of the circle videos: smaller, larger or equal.
Applying cross dissolve and timing between each video.
Effects Mask; to apply an effect to a specific part of a video
Saving everything as Quicktime videos so can be seen on Macs.
Tried experimenting with layering videos but couldn't keep the circles clear.
Summary of my thinking and research with regard to final piece.
James Turrell
By phenomenological definition space is a medium of communication, mediation and transference, of idea and perception.
By phenomenological definition space is a medium of communication, mediation and transference, of idea and perception.
Connection
to universe
Nature of
reality
Perception
of reality;
Duality of
mind/body/ interior/exterior/subject/object
Ann Hamilton
Where is
place and form for human making at the pace of the human body in the remote technological
world?
Embodiment:
experience and understanding of physical as opposed to phenomenological
Samuel Beckett
Reality is
purely a construct of mind: it consists of ideas only
Self-perception:
awareness of self, seeing from inside and outside
Helen Chadwick
Experience
of the body: connection with the universe. Conscious meat.
Tony Oursler
Identity in
the digital age
The eye as a
two way form: sees and is reflected in.
Distance and
connection
Display of
videos
Earthrise and Robert Hooke
Perspective
shift: interior/exterior
Centre of universe,
micro/macro, microscope,
My Retina photos
Circular,
interlinked, my perception, threatened.
Body Videos-microscopic magnification
Square
opposed to circular format. Need to be more abstract
Body morph:
vignette not good enough
Circular template,
issues in Photoshop
Difficulties
with cropping and multi videos.
Final Videos
Choice of
how many images, videos at once: two equal sized circles is the strongest
format.
The
duplication of images emphasises the dialogue, the communication, the blurring
of inner and outer…
Saturday, 9 May 2015
Triple image video experiment for final piece.
Decided to have two equal size circular videos playing simultaneously.next to each other. each of three images: two the same: the eye and the nit and two different: tongue and under-tongue. The duplicating and repeating images create a connection, a relationship between the separate videos: Am having problems with YouTube refusing to upload my final video . It's because each of the individual videos has already been uploaded singly to YouTube and it won't duplicate them.
Finalising choices for final video
Only a single image per video. Need to add more and make a sequence. Essential images are the eye, the nit and the two different tongues: Ear, hair and nose aren't strong enough and the association of nit and hair is too obvious.
Experiment with unequal circles: doesn't work, the balance is wrong. The nit's relative smallness doesn't need to be emphasised.
Conjunction of nit and unidentifiable flesh is good.
Tongue pieces for final video
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