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This was fun to do for a bit. And i actually really like the results gained from this trial. I prefer this stills to these films where the feet are smaller, to the large feet size that they go to. However, i am not convinced to the fact that the plants around her make her seem as though she is very small - like thumbalina! ... Anyway, what i will take from this is just having a part of the body. The whole body is not needed, just one section. However, the way these feet are, i believe that she seems very dead, and i don't want that. There seems to be not questioning here. Also, i think the background looks great on the right hand side one. This was fun to play with though, i will now attempt making some of higher quality with just one section.
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i believe this was when colour films first began to be a thing, no longer was there just film noir, this was the second main development. It was basically highly saturated colour, rather stylelised - something i really like. I want to push my colour further, enhance it to be more garish and a main point. And almost on a side note, i like the almost fuzzy effect the film has, but that is really what is to be expected of this type of aged film. another one so soon? yes. Andy Warhol's Empire Film is rather quite beautiful. It is a film of the Empire state building that has been filmed over 9 hours. There is hardly any movement, but the slight blemishes in the camera make it slightly haunting yet mesmerising. Your heart beat almost stills to the pace of the film, you become consumed by it. On reflection of my last film, i believe there to be too much movement. I want her to be still as possible, and the only movement to be there, perhaps the rising of her chest as she breaths or the blinking from her eyes - is that too much? I want it to be ordinary, benign but at the same time so distant. Is she alive or dead? Did you just see movement? In one of my films i just focused on the feet, and Gillian asked if i had seen trouble with Harry, by Hitchcock. I hadn't, but there is the reoccurring theme of looking at peoples feet close up. We spoke about other ways to film as i want to be able to film the body from side on, to be moving up the body on the floor. But to do this on premier would require tracking and technology things that i don't understand! Gillian suggested that i project the film onto a wall and then film that and move my camera then, when i have a complete film. I will hopefully try this out this week! Ew, so my sound really didnt go how i would have like it to have gone and i found that it actually went quite childish. So i wont be enhancing on the one i did. I have included it here for proof, but please dont listen to it.
Anyway, new thought. What if i was to have no sound. Yes, that is what i want. But i do want something to go alongside the work. Maybe some writing then. This could be about the place. Or about her. Or about limbo. Or it could be the script of the environment she is in, for example: the wind blows the small dark fern at the front, the fern then moves in turn. A woodlouse makes scuffling noises in the far right hand corner of the garden. Or actually i could write about the life of a bug within the scene, endless possibilities haha. With my other film with the feet randomly popping in and out, i didnt like that. I have decided to do a very slowwwww film of just her feet resting in the grass and see how that looks. You wont know whether the feet are attached to anything and if there was a body, what that then also looks like.
Egglestons work is highly saturated with colour, which makes your eyes run all over the page. There is almost no one focal point, only the colour itself. Every last bit is rich and increasingly infused. It is very rich, and could almost make you feel sick from the intensity of it all. However, the is almost a polaroid feel to the work, it is almost grainy in appearance a slight bit of noise to the work. I want to bring this saturation into my work more, it almost puts you over the tipping edge, like things are just too much when you see it. It again places you into another world, one that we are not familiar with, placing you on the boarder of recognition and familiarity.
This week I had a tutorial with Andy, and it went really well, like super good! I’m feeling a lot more confident about my work and where it is going. We spoke for quite a long time and it was nice to hear about something that he worked on in his work too. He gave me a few artists and books to look at and so I’m just going to ram this all down into this post, and then look into it further and with more detail.
In our death cafe group we are holding an exhibition, to which one of my films will be in. And no, as of yet, i am unsure which one or even if it has been made! However, it was nice to see my work be put up on the instagram page. It was also entertaining to see how it was described! "Haunting and uncanny" mmmm YES! I am looking into the uncanny and want my work to be like that. But it was interesting to see my work described as haunting. This has never been something i would have described my work as, so this was something new. And so are they? i could think about that! What is haunting? why i google it it means evocative, something that is moving or touching. It good to know that this is how someone felt in response to my film.
I have decided on two new films ideas/ concepts
1) film her on the floor again, and her to be moving slightly and then, her hand starts to twitch/ glitch, or some other part of her body does. And whilst this is happening also have some spoken work playing, and then when her body starts to malfunction, glitch, so does the spoken work that accompanies it. 2) My second idea is to have a panoramic film shot of my work, and as it glides round, there is a slight glow from behind one of the fence panels from where the sunshine is creeping in, and all seems lovely and happy, and then, right at the end, you see this foot on the floor the sound goes wrong, either it glitches or gets really loud. This artists was recommended to me by my tutor.
I am at a point where i believe my dissertation to be there, yes ready to be handed in as a draft, however, i am still unsure of its title. But it will come from what i have written, and hopefully i will have a bit of help with that.
Now we move onto more annoying issues. This week i wanted to work on my sound. Over laying bits of speech to create this 'noise' and highlighting other parts so that people can follow. From that i wish to place it with my film of her sleeping. Then i want to make a montage film work to it, where there are warnings in the text, a more scary image will come about. However, after recording her voice yesterday and, what i believed to be ready today, i found that the microphone had in fact been broken before i got it. Everything that i had recorded come out scratchy and fussed, i could not hear a single work that had been said. Everything that i was hoping to get done today will not be. I have been frozen in my tracks. I will be unable to record anyone for a while and so am stuck doing nothing, which then led me to this. However, i may have a look for artists and see how they can spur me on in my work! |
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Kerry FosterThird Year Fine Art Student at Falmouth School of Art. Fellow artists: |