Light, Duration, Form and Sound Project
These are my results for the first project I completed for my time-based communication course.
For the first exercise, we got into groups and were assigned the task of capturing 60 images to create a time-lapse sequence. My group and I interpreted this as an opportunity to play with stop motion photography, so we photographed Kyle jumping at a consistent distance from the camera, on every 6-degree interval, 360 degrees around the camera.
In this exercise, that criteria was to create a sequence of similarly shaped objects to play with transitions between forms. My partner Kyle and I filmed the faces of different people sitting in a consistent location in the frame, and I played with the editing to create a transiting between their faces.
For the next part of the assignment, we were supposed to create a 1-minute sound sequence which would convey a certain mood or emotion, to create an auditory experience. I wanted to create the feeling of space travel and suspense. I got great help from my friend Anas, who is a DJ/electronic music producer, to create this original soundtrack on Ableton Live.
The last part of the challenge was to produce a 1-minute visual sequence that would strengthen the mood that the audio was trying to create. My initial ideas were very literal, and quite boring, but one night while enjoying an afternoon snack of baguette bread with an olive oil and vinegar dip, I noticed the beautiful forms that appeared in the olive oil and vinegar mix. When mixed, it appeared like a microcosm of the cosmos. Its simplicity leave a lot for the imagination, but the solid forms create emphasis of the sounds and build of suspense.
These are frames from some other textures that were filmed, but did not make it into the final piece. Although many are more complex and interesting than the ones that were chosen, I felt the simplicity of shapes in the final movie were more fitting to the soundtrack.
Some of the videos where altered in Color, a very interesting application in Final Cut Studio which I am starting to learn. However none of those altered videos were using in the final video.
I produced the visuals by mixing various ingredients (such as olive oil, vinegar, lime juice, cream, alka seltzer, food colouring, etc) on a plane, and filmed them using a Canon 7D with the EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens.
Added October 29, 2009