What the video I'm developing now means to me.

PROLOGUE:

Like most art, my video's meaning will be pretty subjective unto the audience and I'm OK with that.

Why do I bother opening this post with the allegedly obvious statement above? The meaning I feel is most important to this work (apart from subsidiary layers of meaning) is concerned foremost with honest personal expression of feelings that may well be obscure the majority and again, I'm OK with that. Of course I hope my video will end up constructed well enough that some viewers can relate to it and like it.

I preface with this form of disclaimer so as not to waste production time on conversations about changing its meaning to something else. That's not the idea here.

That said, I'll be open to suggestions on improving how I'm conveying the meaning. It's a fine balance between too explicit and too obscure, or perhaps critics just need to relax a little and reconsider substance before style. Anyway, I've begun to consider using text titles and/or narration as a major feature of the work and would surely request feedback if I reach an impasse.

MESSAGE:

*****I'll write this later. Having spent too much time writing the above, I need to get to class now.

The plan

I will be doing intensive re-editing of my previous project, with the aim of a creating a two-part (tentatively estimated at 3 minutes each) video work.

My current ambition for the 2nd half of the project is to edit a significant part of it on a single-frame basis; a strobe montage technique. From work I have already done on this over the break, I'm aware of how time-intensive this is.

I will likely be integrating a small amount of the footage from my previous, previous film.

Though writing the score from scratch in SuperCollider code is also time intensive, I plan to develop the soundtrack in tandem with the video.

a vague eyedea

The premise is a view from inside a human eye. Not the view of eye itself though, but the view of something like a little metaphysical parasite swimming around in the vitreous humor.


This view could be conducive to an empowering expression of reality as a indirect dreamworld whose bounds and rules are malleable by the dreamer; thereby the peace and happiness a person strives for are contingent only upon conscious perception, not material reality.

I'm thinking of mostly using color and heavily processed semi-abstract sound to create an arc.

(possibly)La Bicikla

A sketch of a potential idea. It's a bit production heavy though, so I don't know if I'll tackle it. Maybe I can pare it down somehow...

No Good Ideas Yet

I had equipment out over the weekend hoping for inspiration to suddenly come, but it didn't. Repeated lengthy ideation sessions haven't yeilded anything productive either.

I'll figure something out before this weekend

Making a trailer

"Explore verisimilitude using only light, paper and string. Hint: think
of the act of drawing."

I interpreted it this way: "explore verisimilitude" Use the simple materials listed to
make a creative cinematic representation/suspension of disbelief that might be
difficult to produce in live action. Perhaps in the manner that some trailers
function as an abstracted theme-encapsulating mini movie (e.g. in the opening
ceremonies article)

I'm going to explore two-dimensionalality and probably have a protagonist with an eyepatch. Paper targets on a shooting range is likely to be one of my scenes. Maybe a lifesize standup of darth vader too. Indonesian shadow puppet plays and silhouettes have so far provided some inspiration. Inverted shadows (shadow as a light in the dark) is a challenge I might like to attempt.

Thematically, I'm probably moving towards a story about regret and surprisingly, revised history, a bit like the last assignment.