book

Last night I read an interesting introduction to new media. I will post tommorow when I have researched it online and am feeling better.

Blog Entry

Ill today so hoping I didn't miss too much work. I'm trying to teach myself the you tube stuff but feel I'm reasonably up to date on it now, so not too worried about that.
I am really looking forward to finishing this project and seeing it in all it's glory. I am also looking forward to presenting it in front of my peers and getting feedback as well as seeing others work.

Library

This is very similar to my project and my use of the library. I may do some similar filming to this in St Martin's College library at come point.

Birds

Birds are an important part of my film as the pose an interesting antithesis with the boy in the confines of the library and later as he escapes to the real world.

Nude Descending Stairs

"Nude Descending a staircase" by Marcel Duchamp caused a scandal in 1913 at the Amory show New York. 62 years later, Shigeko Kubota, produced a new media version of the same name using a physical representation of the title. To me this shows how the instillation is useful for projecting the film.

However I am finding it very difficult to decide on what instillation to project onto. For me, the film is the art itself, and it is important that the backgroud is not so busy as to take away from the film itself. I have based the work on the natural and manmade so I would like to encorporate this somehow into the projection. I have thought of books from the library, feathers from birds, trees, windows and mirrors, yet all of these are not a good projection surface. I think feathers and wood would be workable around the surface and intend to discuss this with my other class mates.

Video of natural manmade sounds

So far for this project I have researched many artists using the internet as my main resource along with several books. I have also used artists who are not necessarily new media artists but who have inspired me through their use of art and installtions. Janet Orselli is a favourite of mine and I have looked at her work for this project as inspiration for mine. My film however was based on the idea of natural and manmade, but has also evolved as my knowledge of how film can be used, has grown.

For example I looked at the way two completely different pieces of footage could be edited to give an impression of something to the viewer, that woulod make the viewer realise something without my needing to spell it out. This is a very important part of the film making process and subtlety can work well but can also be largely lost.

I know exactly what I want the film to do and what I want in it. Actually creating the desired effect is proving tricky, especially when you throw all the technical difficulties in with it!!