The second part suggests that I need to write more of these damned posts, something about being essential to the course or whatever...that makes me REALLY think I should be posting far more frequently.
Okay that bit's now over and done with, so now time for 3 ideas for a 3 portrait-screened looping up to 1 minute art piece thingamajig:
1. Diluted
The idea of this piece is to have 3 screens that run in different times to each other with a single person using this interaction to create imagery through scenes overlaying with each other. The center screen containing the person plays in real time and for the mos part will be at a mid shot so that the person can reach their arm out of one screen and into another. the left screen is slow-motion, however that effect is activated every time the arm passes through the screen, that means that through swiping ones arm across the screen twice one would see 2 arms, by using different speeds and several arm movements one can make odd and beautiful patterns and sequences. The right screen will make several periodic screenshots every few seconds that overlay on one another to create new shapes or patterns or pictures. using a green screen these effects would be possible if several layers and a 60fps or more recording device was used to create smooth slow motion and that the main challenge would be that of choreography and creating the overlays on top of each other. if ambition would take hold then the idea of perhaps dropping an object in the still frame and picking it out again would be a hugely interesting effect and one I'd personally love to do, however the question of how is a hugely pervasive one.
2. Osmosis
This one's a bit odd because it's rather simple and abstract in concept but essentially revolves around my fascination with the fact that my eyesight is consistently getting worse every year, and plus since Samsara almost all of me has wanted to do time-lapses, in this case the obvious idea of morning, noon and night which are also to be used as metaphors for birth, life, and death. Birth in this case is all about fading in from blurs and colour-blindness as children under 1 are still developing eyesight and suffer many problems from it. Life in this case is slowly blurring but consistently stopped by the act of changing the lens, in this case the putting on of glasses that'll clear it up after small readjustment period followed by a blur and looping etc. Death is to include blurred spots and burnt image reminiscent of things like cataracts with a slow blur and fade to black that'll loop directly into the birth scenario.
3. Monotony
scenes of walking crowds wearing business attire shot so that only the waste down can be seen walk towards the center screen from their respective scene (so left walks to right, right walks to left etc.) an this short clip on both sides will be looped but slowly getting faster and faster, the middle screen takes both these images and merges the 2 images together with the faster and faster loops overlapping previous loops and causing a sense of chaos in this crossover from just this simple image, once the middle screen is completely incomprehensible it'll all stop, rewind, and start all over again.
