II felt a bit overwhelmed, like i do at the start of most units, but more so because i chose film, something i have always had an interest in but never looked into before. I felt the same way when i looked at photography... like a big world i new nothing about. I decided to look back at how i started my photography unit and do the same, look at artists, make notes and then try it out and maybe expand on it.
William Kentridge.
His films are constructed by drawing, filming it, making changes, and filming it again. He gives each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. His drawings, along with the films, are shown as finished pieces of art.
I really like his films made from charcoal drawings, they are always on the same sheet of paper, instead of traditional animation when its drawn on separate sheets.
I like the methodology to his work and i find it interesting that, by drawing he gets a better understanding of the pain and because of that i feel it becomes very powerful and that understadning is expressed in the work.What i find interesting about how work is that it is not just stop frame animation it is more, the message behind some of his work and the way he lets the frames move i find interesting... also the fact he uses charcoal so each frame is only temporary i feel speaks to me more because it represents life, each frame in life is only temporary and constantly changing and moving forwards...
What i really liked was the last images at the end, the objects broken and coming back together at the end, i wanted to try that idea out a little, so i got paper and charcoal and went for it.
So i have done stuff like this before a little with pencil and i just used a gif maker so i could try it out quickly, i wanted to try and take this idea a little further try and expand on it and make it more connected to my work.
I wanted to step away from this a big and look actually filming, because i feel this is my comfort zone and i need to push outwards. When i was at the Alchemy Film Festival i watches one short film by Dana Berman Duff called catalogue, her work, in this series, looks at objects in knock - off home furnishings photographed in staged rooms imitating a noir style film. They make you consider the time it takes to look at an object. It made me think a lot about composition in film, and the stillness of a scene.
http://www.danaduff.com/project/4/
I decided to just look at things going on around me at college, like a day in college... but how i see it, how long i look at it and also how i look at composition.... I started just taking short clips of things around college, i did not have a tripod so this was a bit more challenging to keep the camera still. I wanted to create things with little bits of movement but still feel very still to try and capture the way observe things that go on at college.
I used I movie to edit it, i found it very easy to use and i really enjoyed the editing process i found it very exciting seeing it come together.
I ended up with this:
William Kentridge.
His films are constructed by drawing, filming it, making changes, and filming it again. He gives each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. His drawings, along with the films, are shown as finished pieces of art.
I really like his films made from charcoal drawings, they are always on the same sheet of paper, instead of traditional animation when its drawn on separate sheets.
I like the methodology to his work and i find it interesting that, by drawing he gets a better understanding of the pain and because of that i feel it becomes very powerful and that understadning is expressed in the work.What i find interesting about how work is that it is not just stop frame animation it is more, the message behind some of his work and the way he lets the frames move i find interesting... also the fact he uses charcoal so each frame is only temporary i feel speaks to me more because it represents life, each frame in life is only temporary and constantly changing and moving forwards...
What i really liked was the last images at the end, the objects broken and coming back together at the end, i wanted to try that idea out a little, so i got paper and charcoal and went for it.
So i have done stuff like this before a little with pencil and i just used a gif maker so i could try it out quickly, i wanted to try and take this idea a little further try and expand on it and make it more connected to my work.
I wanted to step away from this a big and look actually filming, because i feel this is my comfort zone and i need to push outwards. When i was at the Alchemy Film Festival i watches one short film by Dana Berman Duff called catalogue, her work, in this series, looks at objects in knock - off home furnishings photographed in staged rooms imitating a noir style film. They make you consider the time it takes to look at an object. It made me think a lot about composition in film, and the stillness of a scene.
http://www.danaduff.com/project/4/
I decided to just look at things going on around me at college, like a day in college... but how i see it, how long i look at it and also how i look at composition.... I started just taking short clips of things around college, i did not have a tripod so this was a bit more challenging to keep the camera still. I wanted to create things with little bits of movement but still feel very still to try and capture the way observe things that go on at college.
I used I movie to edit it, i found it very easy to use and i really enjoyed the editing process i found it very exciting seeing it come together.
I ended up with this:
I liked the small amounts of movement and the process of it. I like the relationship between the stillness and the movement. I used black and white to eliminate colour, and i did not add sound because that in itself is a huge field and i didn't want to take on too much for my first attempt. I chose the time of each scene by how long i looked at these things and i like the way it makes you notice more the more you look at it.
I feel really excited about the next steps and i can see this unit being really eye opening and it is starting to really pulling me in!
Exciting Cat!
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