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Appearance. – Final

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50 words

Look a little deeper, see a little further. The way we walk, the way we talk, the type of shoes that we have all got. It is the little things that we do that make us who we are. The main character of our own life story.

 

Reflection :

I thought that this assignment really make me realize and think about a lot of things. Being this industry means that we have an audience that could be able to interpret things more differently than having to spoon feed them with the general ideas and things. I also need to take note of how I music also play an important role in portraying the mood of the whole video. The layout of the video should be consistent throughout the whole thing. So many things!!!

Appearance. – WIP 04

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After the consultation, apparently the title you is too in cheesy and in your face. I could perhaps change it to The appearance or have a sentence with the word habit in it. Regarding the layout, I will do it without the white background, the quality is somehow part of the project I guess. I should blow it up and do a full screen of it. Everything should be in the same orientation and make everything going in the same direction to keep it consistent. For those that are taken in a portrait format, I probably have to take them out instead.

The music is somewhat weird? according to what Robert has told me, it is too fantastical. I need to change the pacing of the whole video considering how I was editing according to the music, the length of each footage is somewhat long. Probably could edit the pacing to changing it every time they take a step or something. Music should be secondary. After the edit than find a suitable music to fit in with my video or if not possible just leave the whole film in silence. If I actually use the sound of the raw footage, I am scared that I could  be too chaotic.

On to another attempt of trying to edit the video and trying to get more videos from everybody for the final. About the title I should also try to pick a different font and make it smaller.

So I tried to look into more of the happy music. The musics that are generally happy are mostly the generic advertisement musics which is not something that I would want to use for my video.

Honestly, I was kind of bumped out on which music to pick until I went to watch the Trolls music. Honestly their music was really mostly the sunshine and butterfly kind that I thought hey maybe I could use it for my video? So I went to find the music that could possibly suit my video. In the end, i came across this cover.

Appearance. – WIP03

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After actually seeing everything together, I realised that the footage all varies in different quality. I am also pretty unsure of what layout to put them in. I tried to put them in different direction instead of just them walking in one direction. I duplicated some of the footage as it was too blurry to try to blow them up.

Then I tried another way of putting them together to minimise the bad quality, by minimizing all of them on the screen and having a white background but I am not really sure if that is actually okay. It will look somewhat like this.

This whole project is like not expecting what you get and trying to piece everything together, which somehow adds to the element of the whole project. It being that fact that everyone does everything in their own way, even how they take footage of themselves.

Appearance. – WIP 02

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So I shot a few things but I still was not sure really sure of how I want to piece the scenes together for my short film. To be honest I just thought of shooting random people and even people whom just dress out of the normality which somehow really expresses the fact them not being afraid to be themselves.

Despite the fact that people could be looking at them with a weird look. But than again the more I think about the more I thought that perhaps that was a ted too in your face? We can literally anyone and we are still being ourselves. So I thought some more, maybe I could take shots of people going on with their lives and enjoying themselves.

I had the thought of starting off with perhaps a down shot scene of a person’s feet walking. Also, the shots of them smiling and having fun. It was originally just a try out since I was not sure of still what I wanted to show in my film and I need to consult to be sure that this is a green light.

Apparently after the consultation, my idea seem to be like an inspirational video which is not supposed to be like that. I should make my video more simple and not as direct. I need to be able to let my audience think of what I am trying to show instead of having to throw everything out there and be too direct.

So in the end I tried to put more of the walking video together to express individuality. The fact that the different shoes we wear and how we walk shows the personality of the person. Instead of trying to have too many different scenes and ideas all in one video.

I should also try not to take inspirations off of advertisement since they are work done by professional. Also, it is something that we can’t really achieve without the use of professional equipment. Unless maybe we have prior experience or something.

This is just the screenshot of the few that I have. I have about 15+ videos of them that I will put together but I am honestly still quite unsure of the music. I guess I will try to post up the video of the edited version.

50 words :

Look a little deeper, see a little further. The way we walk, the way we talk, the type of shoes that we have all got. It is the little things that we do that make us who we are. The main character of our  own life story.

Ps. I do not want to do animation for my film because I want to try something new. Also the fact that I can do animation for the rest of the time here in uni and also the fact that I am still bumped out after my poly end of the year project.

Appearance. – WIP 01 (Research)

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For assignment three, I was thinking of portraying being free from modern society standards. But after thinking again, I was not sure of what or how to portray it. The first that actually came to me for this assignment was “Be free. Be you.” Honestly speaking the first that I thought that I could actually get inspiration from is music video. However after what hearing what Mr Robert said in class about not having to depend on the lyrics to show what  I am trying to tell the audience than I thought of advertisements. That fact that They are also about the length of 1-2 minutes, I thought why not trying to get some ideas from there how how I could or should shoot my scenes.

But then I actually came across this short video which was actually pretty interesting to me. Basically, the video is what it is titled. It was a compilation of people breathing in many different scenario. The fact that breathing can actually tell us quite a lot about what someone is actually feeling or doing, from us sighing to even breathing intensely when we are in a state of panic.

To me the thought of freedom is actually something similar. The fact that we could be whoever we want whatever we want to be in this ever changing society. There was recently an advertisement by SK-II where they ask the adults and kids about what is their dreams.

That was when I started realising a lot of things after hearing what the kids said about their dreams. The amount of constraints that society has put on us and the stereotypical judgement we have on people just somehow make people more afraid of showing themselves. I feel like when it comes to freedom there is Adidas and Nike advertisement is perhaps something that I could possibly get some inspiration from while perhaps incooperating the idea from the breathe short film.

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I especially like this advertisement from Adidas because of the shots use. The way the back view of different people is shown and the fact that even from the back you could clearly see that everyone is different. At the end of the clip, it is clearly you yourself who will be the one shaping your own future, which in turn shows the is what I wanted to try to show in my assignment three. “Be free. Be you.”

So I thought about my 50 words statement that I should write for my film and thought that perhaps it will go like this :

Has the modern day society shaped us into the cookie cutter shaped cookies? The us whom we are afraid of expressing because of the judgement that we are scared of getting. Perhaps we should let “the us” be seen. Maybe it is time to be free and be you.

CCA – Exhibition Review

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Honestly speaking I was kind of confused when I watched the first film, I was actually bored out by it. I find that the pacing of it is too slow and the fact the stillness of it seemed to throw me off a bit. The fact that I am too used to the fast pace of modern day movies and shows that it kind of making me uncomfortable.

After which I kind of gave up watching it halfway and begin walking around. However, the seed room was really amazing, somehow when I entered the room, I felt at peace. The documentation of the different types of seeds by Natabar Sarangi was a really intriguing thing to read about. Also, the soldiers wanting to take over that piece of land was just a really absurd thing to do for a government.

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I finally went and sat down to watch the second film, a love story. For some reason, I actually liked it even though it is somewhat similar in a sense to the first one. Perhaps it was the way the subjects in the film moves. The whole film gives off a very peaceful yet sad undertone to it, which gave me the feeling that I hope I can achieve for my third assignment.

The whole film is pretty much shot from a tripod stand where everything is still and there was not much or no panning or zooming at all. I also really like how they did the transitions by fading in and out between the scenes, it was so subtle and old school but yet it works. At the end of the film there was the part where it was only just recording of flashing lights and the overlaying of recording which really struck me. It was just the monotonous yet sad sounding recording which got me thinking of what could have happened. I thought that it might be another idea that I could probably apply into my third assignment where I would use voice over to describe to the audience about what is going on, like storytelling.

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In the end, the whole exhibition gave me a mixed feeling but I would say I learnt about a number of things still even though I might not be able to understand most of the stuff going on inside there.

Freedom – Final

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Honestly speaking the me before assignment 02 is all about aesthetics and the pretty colours. However, after doing assignment 02, I realised that there is something about raw images. There is a sort of feelings you would actually get from the images instead of it just being especially nice to look at and that is it?

I went through like almost 3 weeks of newspaper searching but I only got like 68+ images? I honestly don’t know what I was expecting. I thought it would have been more and all but I guess I should not have too much either. Otherwise I am scared that I might not be able to paste everything on the wall on time during presentation….

Artist statement :

The constant worries that everyone have every day is something that cannot be avoided. However, I wanted to show the happier side of the story where ones problem is solved or even alleviated despite the fact that it might be something small but it still makes someone else’s day.

I wanted to find the type of happiness that can be felt through a photograph. The type of raw feeling that I hope to find which in the end led to the idea of getting them from the newspapers. Hence, the concept of found images from the straits time.

A series of 68 images from small to big, also in a way telling people that worries and happiness is just a thin line between each other. The fact that they come in all different sizes and appear at unexpected timing throughout our life which explains the layout of my series.

Freedom – WIP 03

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I was like kind of drifting around here and the there about the images since I was not sure which images actually meant freedom. After consulting again, I realised that the images I thought that were too normal were actually the ones that tells most of the story. Like how a normal photograph of a family can also mean freedom. I just had to read along the line of the title. The fact that most of the happy news have images that can be use for my theme.

The fact that the images are in all different sizes means that I could play around a lot with the layout and stuff. However this also means that I should try to get as much photos as I could and try to bring them together with the layout that guide people through.

I thought of mixing around the different sizes of the newspaper I have cut out when I present them. I feel like sometimes happy times are really random so perhaps I could play around with the placements mixing up the big and small cut outs.

While searching for the photos, I thought that advertising images could be used as well but somehow when I put them together with the other images, it feels like they are very fake? I am not really sure how to explain it but they stand out way too much with all the proper posing and clean backgrounds. There were also images with gradient highlights which I find hilarious.

I would post the final images in another post but this are the awkward rejected photographs.

The horror of having to go through the huge pile of newspapers.

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Freedom – WIP 02 (Fail)

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After the reading the brief before the consultation we had during the recess week, I thought of trying out the photo montage. I was like really excited and all, trying to do in reference to the Ashley Edwards mainly and other artist inspirations I have for this assignment. I was like digging through the images online, trying to test the compositions out.

Since I wanted to do about freedom from worries, for the first composition I tried to do like a little girl blowing bubbles. Somehow bubbles feel like a very joyful thing. Also, there is clouds which we would sometimes just zone out seeing them drifting by so freely. Then I thought why not putting them together like ; in a sense “blowing away all  the problems and worries”. The background was this mountains and the rectangular vectors which I thought feels like windows. The meaning I was trying to tell was like the hardships or worries will pass by.

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For the second composition, it was more like using the representation of wings to show like flying free and away from the problem. I guess I tried or rather I wanted it to feel like the person grew out wings. Be free.

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After the consultation, my images were somewhat too abstract and hard to understand. The fact that my topic on freedom itself is already quite vague, I should try to narrow down my search instead of finding the images online, confusing myself and the search scope is just too big.

The suggestion I was given was to maybe try finding images from newspapers since it is full of daily worries and all. I could probably do something like picking out the beauty advertisements, talking about how this is all that we are into nowadays and all. Perhaps I could try to use our daily worries and try to use “negative” images like the slimming advertisement or world problems to make my stand in freedom from worries. Something similar in a sense but not too off and deep at the same time to get the message across.

Freedom – WIP 01 (Fail)

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So we had to find images related to our assignment one, I am guessing this is to help us get have a clearer view of what we want to do? I went around digging for the many photos, I realised that I cannot really just stick to searching only using the word freedom. Then I started to think about what are the different things people do that can be portrayed as freedom or when seen people will have the sense of freedom.

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Ideas

After consultation, the apparently the images that I found is just based on aesthetics, also the fact that they are too literal. They are still just used for what they originally were trying to portray. Somehow the images just does not seems to feel real and raw. I guess in a sense I needed to find images and put them into a new context which I just somehow did not really have a clear idea of what that really meant so this happened.