UNIT 10 - WK1

video installation is about creating an environment around the viewer by building your video and sound into the views physical environment. this video here by Sonia Falcone depicts very well what video installation can be, a great blend of sound and video witch also uses the environment around it in enhance the whole thing, as you can see by the reflection in the floor making the project feel more involved and almost jump of the screen.

how i want to create my project is less environmental and more to do with what is being shown on screen. so i would like my video to be shown on a projector screen to make the whole thing feel more like a cinema experience and less of an attempt to try confuse my viewer by putting loads of screens around the room like a curtain artist Ugo Rondinone - THANX 4 NOTHING (2015) that i saw at the infinite mix witch i thought was some forced attempted to feel more impactful some how, when i believe his work is more impactful when i looked at one screen a focused on the words he was speaking and not looking at every screen to find the differences and on listening to the lyrics being spoken on screen.

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thats why i feel i need a simplistic set up. my first idea for a theme was exposer and revealing ones true self. I've thought of a way to do this by putting a picture on top on a green screen then burning the picture away revealing the green screen, then in post i will put maybe another picture or clip onto the green screen depicting what is actually happening beneath the photo, (beneath the surface). i like this theme and idea as it allows me to touch on lots of different creative and relevant issues and express them in an interesting and creative way, wile at the infinite mix i saw loads of different works and if I'm totally honest there was only one witch really felt like it was trying to say something with this work.

the rest just felt like a collection of nice shots mixed with some music and that was it. for example Kahlil Joseph's m.a.a.d. in my opinion is just shots of a black neighbourhood with some shots cut to the beat of the music, telling no story, giving no insight as to how a black neighbourhood might operate we just see people doing things, just stuff of no meaning or consequences there was no meaning to the madness, no story and i didn't enjoy watching that. in my opinion your work needs to express something of interest and relieves and I'm not just talking about lessons to educate people through yourwork but even just a simple story would work fine, there are also cases where some people can just get lost in imagination because of what is happening on screen and that alone but like I said I prefer the story over the beauty of a project, thats part of the reason i love movies but one came across as meaningful in this for me was "Thanx 4 Nothing" by Ugo Rondinone. his poem is very moving and is in a way telling the viewer about his incredibly hard life struggles and how he is thanking someone, but when never find out who stimulating the idea that he is thanking himself for all the pain he's gone through and thats very sad and interesting. its telling a story its giving me a lesson on life choices. that is what i want to capture something meaningful and interest so that I'm not just taking nice shots and cutting them to some nice music that is not video installation as far as i can tell that is what we call a music video. work but even just a simple story would work fine, there are also cases where some people can just get lost in imagination because of what is happening on screen and that alone but like I said I prefer the story over the beauty of a project, thats part of the reason i love movies but one came across as meaningful in this for me was "Thanx 4 Nothing" by Ugo Rondinone. his poem is very moving and is in a way telling the viewer about his incredibly hard life struggles and how he is thanking someone, but when never find out who stimulating the idea that he is thanking himself for all the pain he's gone through and thats very sad and interesting. its telling a story its giving me a lesson on life choices. that is what i want to capture something meaningful and interest so that I'm not just taking nice shots and cutting them to some nice music that is not video installation as far as i can tell that is what we call a music video.

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initial idea: my main choice of theme would have to be about forgetting memories, i feel that there is something interesting and relatable when it comes to people forgetting things and there is also something interesting to be done with remembering so my idea for this is to have pictures set up on a table and then film them being smashed and destroyed (forgotten memories) in different ways and then in post ill slow the footage down to a snails pace and then revers the footage so that the pictures are putting themselves back together (remembering memories) i will shoot it in pitch black with a light shining down on the objects being destroyed

location report: the location is a empty studio in streatham, I've chosen this place because it has lots of open space that i can make a mess of and then clean up very easily after I'm finished. it also blocks out a lot light, this will allow me to control the lighting in the room completely with my own lights

risk assessment: i will be smashing glass with a base ball bat. i will need to use letter gloves to pick up the glass so that i don't cut myself. i will also need to wear protective glasses so that no smashed glass gets in my eyes. to protect the cameras that belong to the school i have put them to the right and left of where i will be aiming the smashed glass, but my own personal camera will be front and centre and i have no real way of protecting it.

story board:

shot list:

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rick assessment:

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location report:

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evaluation:

i think my installation was very effective, it blended the appropriate music with the video well enough so that they did not feel separate or disconnected in any way, also the pictures i used were not stage, they were real, actually happened and are memories that i personally hold very dear to my hart and i think that makes the message of the video installation (how we forget things) hit that much harder then it would if these pictures where just staged made just for this project. i think the audience got the emotional response that i was looking with were sadness and fear of forgetting as shown by these quotes "I liked the idea of your video installation, it made me feel a bit sad", "bittersweet" and "i think that the repetitive smashing was effective" i behalf this shows how people responded in the way i intended. the music was my favourite part of the video and how it integrates with whats happening on screen works to enhance both the music and the shots. the angles and shot are my least favourite thing about it as they had to be fix in one position so that no glass would hit them. this meant that through out the film there is only three angles and thats it. i wish i had more freedom to move them but it was to much of a risk, but it couldn't be helped. if i had to do anything differently it would be trying to create some different angles by maybe putting something on the cameras to protect them, I'm not sure what but just trying to create different angles for the film would make it less repetitive.

Feedback

-" I think stanleys instalation was heartwarming but I think using more screens could make it more effective"

-" I liked the idea of your video installation,it made me feel a bit sad" "also the set up did not need multiple screens unlike others"

-"i think that the repetitive smashing was effective and having one screen allowed you to concentrate"

-"bittersweet" "might have worked better on several screens in my opinion."