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 review on Friday I was told that the beginning of my experimental video with the train going passed was successful and that I should carry on with that but make it longer and cut the other video of me and Sammi out of it. To be honest I am totally fine with that I can use my experiments I've used on adobe premiere to slow parts of the train journey down and capture more of what happens when then train stops and use the fading techniques with my audio as well, just some tweaking and hopefully it will be a successful final piece. For me time lapse is something I do for fun that's why I wanted to add more to my video but perhaps the first and simple video is more effective then adding more and over complicating it. I was also told I need to do more research in to artists and photographers which I did with a project last year I just didn't want to add the same research in... but its will show where I got my ideas from as I did want to carry on from last year as I enjoyed it so much... Maybe its something I can develop in more depth when I reach my 3rd year, who knows!
Kindly someone was taking notes for me whilst I was getting my feed back - My notes
Tacita Dean
John Smith (already in sketch book)
Eadweard Muybridge
Paul Fusco -JFK train
Rene Magritte - Painter who does frames within frames
Play more with transitions, more subtly would be good.
'The narrative structure in the first part of your test works well, its the strongest part' - Ellen Nolan
I did this time lapse on my iPhone using iMotion. Its annoying because its got the black side bits which I don't know how to remove but also its wobbly because I'm holding my phone. I did like the positioning of phone but it proves I should really use my camera. I'm going to create another time lapse like this one so it fits with the rest of my videos. I was practicing using the audio settings in Premiere it was really fiddly when I started to create the music fade near the end of the video. Its not perfect but its a huge step in the right direction!
Just another little experiment with Adobe Premiere, I learn how to use the split screen technique just researching on YouTube it was pretty easy to do and now that I've learnt how I can continue experimenting for my final video piece!!
After my tutorial with Ellen Nolan, I was left feeling really confident about my project and it gave me a bigger kick up the bum to fulfill the pretend Nikon advert idea using different typography, different music, but with a multiple rang of video, time-lapse (still images into video form) and still images on their own. I need to practice more with Adobe Premiere so at least my final video for my mid review this Friday coming will grab peoples attention and hopefully impress (might be getting a bit overly excited). After the review I'm assuming we can carry on our digital project as I am really enjoying it and slowly finding my feet and getting to grips with it, just means juggling both digital and printed at the same time but I'm sure I can manage (Y) FINGERS CROSSED GUYS!!
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.
Whilst I've been researching I've thought what are the differences between stop motion and time lapse photography. They are very similar as its 100's of photos combined to then be converted in to a video.
What is Time Lapse?
A video or animation consisting of frames separated by a fixed time interval. For example: A video of the sky in which a frame is taken every x amount of seconds.
The time lapse video was made by some one I briefly know through a friend. This piece of work is incredible and I've asked if I can go along one day to see how he makes the time lapse.. There is a very expensive piece of equipment to create the double movement and you see it when he's filming the time lapse.
What is Stop Motion?
A video or animation in which every frame is taken without consideration for the time interval between frames. For example: You can take a picture of a man in one position, and the following frame could be taken 15 minutes later, or 30 minutes later, and the following could be the following day.
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.
I was just playing around with my iPhone 5s on an app called iMovie, I started messing around with it and saw how much fun and also how easy it was to create a short movie or a pretend movie trailer. After experimenting with this app I started to think whether there was a time lapse or stop motion app on iTunes. I soon discovered iMotion and iMotion remote, the short description on the apple store website says: Take pictures, edit your movie and export HD 1080p & 720p videos to your device or directly to Youtube. iMotion HD is an intuitive and powerful time-lapse and stop-motion app for iOS. Since starting university I've wondered what type of photography it is that I am actually interested in, what do I want to learn about, what makes me tick. When I discovered time lapse and stop motion photography I was really taken in by and the whole process of how 100's or even 1000's of images can been turned in to a video. I had never studied photography before I started uni, I just would point a shoot and be happy with what the result was, I've soon come to realise there is a lot to learn within the technical side of photography, it can be very over whelming as most of the time people want to perfect their work quickly and effectively.
For the narrative project I'm now deciding whether I should use my DLSR Nikon D5100 camera or should I use my iPhone 5s, I'm thinking maybe I should practice with both and comment on the negatives and positives of both media practices.
What does this mean for photography though? If you can do most things quickly on a high end phone? Is my phone better then using the long process of a camera, bigger tripod, computer editing etc...
I created a quick video driving to uni this morning in my boyfriends car, its a bit wobbly but I just wanted to test a quick experiment of how my iPhone creates a time lapse. As I have created small time lapse pieces in other projects I'm wondering what will be better for my narrative project. I'm thinking about buying a mini iPhone tripod so I can create quick time lapse or stop motion videos when I'm on the go on public transport. With a smaller device for capturing images I feel I might be able to capture smaller details as people might not notice I'm recording them, when you have a huge camera out people play up to the camera and don't act so natural. Will be an interesting experiment.
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.
