The video shows us an isolated viewpoint that indirectly imply a sense of relationship. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken feelings, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in connection.
This is my update for my video.
I have changed it to just an isolated view of a set of hands. The white bars help to further isolate the shot just like in my reference.
It seems much stronger than my last video where I did many shots of isolated viewpoints. Feedback had be given to me to extend the video to 10 min long and I’m still going to put sounds of nature in the background.
I’m a bit worried that the shot may be a bit grainy.
My new 50 words:
The video shows us an isolated viewpoint that indirectly imply a sense of relationship. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken feelings, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in connection.
The video shows us an isolated viewpoint that indirectly imply a sense of relationship. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken joy, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in endearment.
I took a series of closeups of someone hoping that it would show a viewpoint of someone in love. It might be too much and a single 1-2min shot of a focused viewpoint would be stronger in portraying my message. Something like what I have researched in my previous post.
This is my first try.
Thursday Afternoon
Andrew Johnson
Thursday Afternoon is a video work that explores the passage from Youth to Maturity where a dramatic and unsettling alteration is nevertheless, gradually and even almost invisibly realised.
Silent Sight
Zineb Sedira
In the artist’s work, women answer the gazes to which they are subjected by others. Sedira uses the voice-over in Silent Sight to talk about veiling and the impact of her mother’s veil on little Zineb, all the while looking at the spectator. This slow form of witness effectively creates a space of ‘intimate unrest’ between the onlooker and herself. Sedira reflects and returns the gaze.
50 words
The video shows us a series of isolated viewpoints that indirectly imply a sense of closeness, warmth & coziness. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken joy, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in love.
My video would indirectly suggest a relationship by showing close ups of a person maybe travelling in a train. Those close ups cannot be taken if the person filming it is not “close” to him in that way.
I would also like to overlay of flowers splashing into clear water like the stills below by an artist called, Gilles Bensimon, to indicate the refreshing, lively feeling of being in love.
Gilles Bensimon is a famous for fashion photography and helped shaped the magazine that it is today. He does not consider himself an artist but recently he made photographs of fresh cut flowers that are submerged in water.
Here are some of my pre final outcome where I stuck the magazine cutting onto normal printing paper first. This is to make sure it fits perfectly because I cannot resize the magazine cutting; only the printed old photos.
After that I decided to put it into a photo album where I sequenced and arranged the layout to give rhythm to the way the reader reads the photos. I paired most of them to different aspects: the two couples’ hands are touching, portraits of wedding, both couples are gay etc
However some are too out of place and I have purposefully placed them alone in one corner. In some pages I did not put anything in order to give a “pause” to the rhythm.
I chose a photo album because I want it to be viewed as if they are real couple photos and a couple had been collecting these photos for viewing/reminiscing sake.
REFLECTION
All in all I really enjoyed doing this project. I loved manipulating the photos trying to stick to the topic but yet trying to see if I can break this or that boundary, It felt nice to see the 30 images coming together to tell a certain idea or narrative and I realise image sequencing played a big part in the album of how I would like my reader to absorb the information. To see it the way I want him to see it. I really enjoyed doing that part and it was my favourite thing to do after everything.
Below is one collage that I have done. I wanted to make things awkward but somehow correct. I think that I have gone over board with this one and it feels like I’m drifting from the topic. Here, the couple is having their meal with their goat child and I have replaced the woman on the left with a what seems relatively gigantic girl.
It does not keep to the topic of “Love knows no boundaries” and so I decided to scrape it.
Here is a more successful try. It clearly shows the concept of love transcending through time where the magazine cutting and the old photo, that come from two very different contexts and eras, coming together as one unit.
I have chosen to use fashion magazine spreads as I feel like they give me more variety of expression, poses and camera angles.
And I’ve also decided to use old pictures of couples that do not seem too candid. Like it had either been staged or posed for. Also I am using pictures from the Victorian era all the way to the 80’s. I am also varying the ages and the type of people and beings.
In terms of how I would want to merge them, I would do it like John Stezaker. He does very clean merging where the form of the subject is there but he is not scared to show that the angle of the photo is wrong.
IDEA
For this assignment I want to continue on my topic of “couples”. In my last assignment I talked about how LOVE IS UNIVERSAL.
In this topic, I want to go deeper in the term “UNIVERSAL” and say that Love knows no boundaries. Boundaries in terms of age or gender and even in time.
Even little children know what is the meaning of bring romantically in love even if they may not have the full and true meaning of it.
PHOTOMONTAGE
So I decided to use found images of old and young couples and mismatch them buy doing a photomontage or “photo-surgery”
I am inspired by artists who do photomontage like John Stezaker and Jesse Treece. Below is a link to the 10 artists who do photomontage.
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3318/top-10-collage-artists-hannah-hoch-to-man-ray
BOBBY NEEL ADAMS
Another particular artist which I found that is more closely related to my idea is Bobby Neel Adams.
http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/
Using a technique he coined “photo-surgery,” Adams integrates separate images of husband and wife into one, united front.
He documents the regeneration of genes in merged snaps of mothers and daughters. fathers and sons.
Most disconcertingly of all, he fuses snapshots of a subject’s past and present self into one jagged, time-lapsed pictorial.
The photos are an unsettling reminder that there is no escaping your genes or aging.
Family Genes
Age
Couples
My thoughts:
I really like the photomontage on the couples. I think it’s really cool and at the same time disturbing how it shows two different individuals but they look mysteriously similar.
APPROACH
As I’ve said before I am going to do a mismatched photomontage of many couples using old and new photos.
What I mean is that I would use an old photo of a couple and mismatch one of the partners and change it to a photo of lady that is taken in this day and age.
As the 30 photos progress I might want to change it to maybe an old man with a young lady and vice versa, trying to make the photos look really awkward but somehow correct at the same time.
I was inspired by this article by vouge. That compares between the figures of the artist, Lucas Cranach, and the human comedy of today.
By further mismatching the couples but somehow making them feel correct, is re-emphasising my point that love knows no boundaries.