This is a new experiment of a different journey on my way to London. When I got on the train I realised there were no tables for me to put my camera on and I panicked a little.. I remembered first class had them so I tried to see if I could sneakily do it without anyone telling me off.. luckily I found a lady in first class who said she would watch my camera for me and the ticket guy said it was okay so.. win win! I took in total 850 photos.. seems like a lot but I think I should of taken more. I set my camera to take an image every 1 second 850 times. I wanted to do something different from the last train time lapse so I had to break up the images in to different sequences and make 5 different videos in My Movie on my PC. I changed the FPS (frames per second) which can determine how slow or fast my time lapse will be moving. The more FPS the slower the less the faster. I also wanted to experiment with the video fading in at the start and fading at the end, I also learnt how to fade the music as well at the end. This was really annoying to do and its all really small on premiere pro. This will hopefully be close to what the final video will look like.. just need more feed back.
After my Brighton trip I had a lot to experiment with in Adobe Premiere in today's work shop. Still got a long way to go with learning all the ins and outs but it was such a successful work shop and I really got a lot out of it and actually learnt something. I've made a small experimental piece that I am really proud of and think it has a lot of potential to grow in to a really successful and interesting project that other people hopefully will be interested in.
This was actually shown in one of my critical approaches lectures by Anthony Luvera, Photography and Death - (Essay question 'Photography is an agent of death - discuss')
This is similar to Ellen Nolan's work where their parent isn't very well and they are using their cameras to cope or understand the process of what them their selves are going through to see their parents going through dramatic changes and obviously for their parents to cope with, helping their children to come to terms with life's changes. I found her work very moving and emotional, her dad wanted to help her, even though he was the one who was terminally ill. He was afraid of leaving them behind, to not be there to support and guide them anymore. Throughout the video you grasp a strong idea of what type of person her father is, he's a strong man, who wants to take care of his family. I like how she has a video of mixed media of still images, audio recordings and video. Its a really beautiful piece of work. For this project we have to develop a digital and printed formats of our chosen narratives. Researching her video gives me a good insight to how to combined all the medias in a particular way. Even though my work won't have an in depth meaning as Briony's or Ellen's it shows me how I can present my work in a professional manner.
The overview
Being a good daughter to my dying dad was tricky. I
struggled to find the balance between dedication to his needs and distraction
from my grief.
At first the idea of introducing a camera into this equation
seemed unwise, but eventually I think it became the solution.
This is the story of an ending without an ending.
And I hope it always will be.
This is my attempt to say goodbye to my Dad with the help of
my camera.
Well after my tutorial today I was left a little confused. I had come up with how I want to experiment with my work using media but it seemed I didn't actually have a theme, so if I don't have a theme how am I supposed to start taking photos? Humm silly Hollie. I think I've also perhaps been over complicating the project and thinking to much in depth about the word narrative and what it means. Who knows. I decided to go and research stop motion videos about the theme I was interested in exploring which is love, I know its simple but sometimes simple is more effective then over complicating it. I feel comfortable with the theme as I feel I can do a lot with the subject. I was thinking how can I show a original stop motion without using people? I thought about all the gifts my boyfriend has bought me or just random objects that remind me of him, I started thinking about a post it note he had left me and the movie tickets I had kept. I think when we were friends I wrote him a really in-depth card about how much he meant to me. Narratives are usually written out first then go on to preform or change it some how, so I've come up with an idea to create a journey using stop motion, of one or maybe a few of my beloved items. I was thinking maybe to buy a fake look-a-like engagement ring and create a story of the ring being left behind when the boy needs to propose with it that day and some of the items help the ring on a journey out of the house to put itself back in to the boys pocket. Just a quick story, I was also thinking of writing a love letter and it also goes on a journey to the post office because a girl leaves it in her room because shes to scared to post it. I need to start shooting these ideas and see how effective they are. So less thinking and more doing!!!
When I first started thinking about the narrative project, which was before I actually received my brief, I was in my mums car at Christmas time and started playing made up scenes in my head of random videos and matching them with songs I liked as well. Even the love to some people is an ordinary topic, love can be an incredibly over powering for some people, obviously there are different types of love that might not make people feel like that. There is an unconditional between yourself and your family, a mothers love will go on forever, the strongest bond I feel is between a mother and her child. You love your friends, you may love food, clothes, shoes, pets, movies, books etc... the list can go on forever of what people say they 'love'. I personally love love! I don't know where I would be without it. What I do love the most is seeing people in love, over the years I've heard the word 'love' being flung around at times like it is nothing. I love a good old romantic love story, whether its with the typical chocolates, candles wine and dine stuff (which is not really my thing) or whether its something really simple like your partner leaving you a sticky note on your pillow saying he loves you.
Basically whilst I was creating random made up love scenes in my head I was really racking my brains to find the perfect song to go along side it, I remember seeing on Britain's Got Talent a few years ago this incredible piece by aHungarianshadow theatre group from called Attraction. I remember bursting in to tears at how powerful and emotional the performance was and it truly took my breath away. Their chosen narratives for one particular performance covered the basic's of life, love, romance, marriage and death. The song accompanied by the performance was Emeli Sande's 'Read all about it' the two combined is so overwhelming, bringing in their audience, creating all these different emotions of happiness and sadness. Its something every human being can relate to, we've all loved and lost throughout our lives, narratives are displayed through different types of media as we've all seen.
When you hear a certain song or look at a particular photo, it takes you back to a memory, it reminds you of people who may or may not be in your life anymore, it makes you reflect on the past and perhaps think about your future. I remember when I chose not to listen to a certain song for a few years because of all the emotion and memory that went along side it, I was sitting in a car with the radio on and the song started playing, I felt scared in a silly way, because I knew admittedly how I used to feel whilst listening to that song, I didn't turn the radio off I just kept on listening and instead of crying because I was sad, I just smiled to myself at how far I'd come since that certain time in my life.
Narrative's are everywhere, hidden within music, photographs, videos and objects. You may forget most of your memories and think about them less then others, with memory attached to different types of media those memories are recreated for you to re-live all over again like a photographic slideshow playing only just for you to watch.
To make things a little easier for myself I've decided to use two separate sketch books to record my narratives. The reason I've done this is to keep things simple when creating my digital and printed narratives, so that it is easier for me and the people who will view my work to have a clearer understanding of what I am trying to achieve within my work and to show the journey of how I've used different types if media and how they turn out.
This is a quick spider diagram in my digital sketch book. I'm going to have to start researching to soon so I can get a solid idea of how I will create my digital outcome. I am still interested in taking the time lapse/stop motion route all I need to do is starting experimenting with different digital techniques to see what I feel will be best for my narrative.
My first blog post on my narrative project is about the start of my first idea.
The goal is to create two visual stories in two different formats, one in digital form either using a slideshow, single screen projection, ebook, pdf with 3 different tableau images. And also one in printed form using a bound publication, booklet, newspaper or newspaper.
After my lectures and writing down ideas in my work book I've decided I've wanted to go down the route of experimenting with stop-motion, time-lapse, video and still images not in a time-lapse or stop-motion form. I feel this will give me a wide range of experiencing with different techniques to visual understand and see how the outcomes will turn out and what will be best for me to display my work. I would like to experiment more with stop-motion and time-lapse as they are still one image capturing one moment of time that can then be converted in to a video format by using CS6 Abode Lightroom or Photoshop. Lightroom will help me make sure all my images are correctly edited all at once instead of individually.
For the printed outcome I would like to experiment with creating my own book either by hand or get help from my graphic designer contacts to help me organize my images so they tell the narrative how I want it to be viewed by the persons who view it. I was thinking about trying to incorporate panoramic images within this book as well to make it flow more, instead of having one or more images organised on the page.
For my idea I wanted to use the concept from the film '<em>Sliding Doors</em>' where the woman is rushing to get on a tube in London and how she misses the tube by a few seconds because a child on the stairs was in her way, the next scene reverses backwards to her at the top of the stairs walking back down and the mother of the child this time pulls the child out of the way and the woman manages to catch the tube. This film shows two different stories of what happens if she caught then tube and what happens if she missed the tube.
I want to create a very similar narrative but one story in a film format and the other within the book.
I will need to watch the film and look at forums online and see what people have to say about the film and what they think about it and why.
This is a good start for me and fingers crossed it will be effective.
