Today's Progress

Today was a day of discovery for me. I learned that I was trying to do too much that wasn't even what I was really supposed to do. So, with that said, here is my new final proposal.

For my final I am going to be making a video using both film and digital photography, as well as piano and spoken word. After talking to Lana, I went back to my computer puzzled. How can I do this? Her idea was to make a video of my creating of art. liked that idea but how to execute was beyond me. Her suggestion was to either take a video of me creating or do still shots with the piece slightly furthered each shot. After racking my brain, I decided I wanted to do both. My idea is that I will super speed up the video images then just stop with still images of whatever it is i'm making constantly a step further, until finished at the end. Here's the sequence idea:

Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still

An idea I have is to go backwards after the canvus is done until it is empty again. I am still really unsure of this idea...guess Ill see how it all looks...

Then, I want to take the videos and images and compose small appropriate piano riffs taking from 7 songs of FY that most embody my source. The songs are:

a new light
paperclips
emo mcdreamy
stalking the book
daylight savings time
ill never let you in
could it be

Once the songs are in place I am going to write a new poem made from the most source poignant lines in those songs. I will do a spoken word recording to go with the piano.

So that is my new video project conceived today in class.

Oh and I forgot to mention one big thing... the source behind all this has shifted toward the idea of my questioning of love as well as my relationship with art. I will further detail my source with next weeks postings, s well s my final final final proposal!

LASTLY! New timeline!

Due Next Week:

-Absolute final proposal. to blog and printed
-Video shot (thursday)
-images taken (thursday)
-new poem conceived (but never concrete)
-post poem and images to blog
-buy and install final cut (life is too hard without at my fingertips!)
-equipment needed: camera, digital camera, tripod for digital camera, lights

In Class Next Friday:
-Video rendering and beginning of editing (post clip to blog)
-meet with Lana again

To Finish before due:
-put video and images together
-compose music
-record music
-record poem
-put music and poem on video
-post final video
-put together the DVD

5/1
Judgement day has come!