Here is a screen shot of my favourite part of the movie which is a slow motion, moving image of my watch with a ‘heartbeat’ sound effect attached. I thought this was a very effective part of the movie as it captured viewers right form the beginning.
This is a Screen Shoot of the process used for my Assessment piece. It was created in MAC Imovie which is a very simple program to use. As you can see in the top Left side are all the clips in the movie and added sound and text.
Assessment 3- Moving Image
For this Assessment we were asked to create one movie image including sound investigating, cultural themes throughout the work. I create my piece around my current situation in my life involving LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS, WORK, FAMILY, CHOICES. Below is my statement about the movie.
THE ROAD
Assessment 3- moving image
By Brooke Evers
I’m always on a road, a road to the top and that’s what I focused my assessment on for Imaging culture. When people ask me ‘how would you best describe your identity’ I simply reply……..my career is my identity. When I walk through the streets people recognise me as I’m constantly in the media and public eye. The identity I have created for myself is my business, this is me.
For this assessment I had no idea how to begin so I started experimenting with different techniques and images in Imovie and Iphoto. This was not the easiest assessment to complete as I was overseas for 2 weeks in Hong Kong, but then I realised I was there because of my identity so I started filming bits and pieces. The beginning of the clip I took snippets of my watch ticking in slow motion. I also incorporated a heartbeat which all demonstrated the time I had to complete this journey I am on and the adrenaline that comes with it. Everything is time, everything is now that I why my intro is what it is. The clip then rolls into a festival I filmed myself which shows the energy and confidence people need to perform. I’m a professional dancer and this section shows what it feels like to get on stage in front of a major audience. The slow motion technique is great because it captures emotions.
Throughout the entire assessment I filmed a lot of roads that run in reverse, slow motion and extra fast. The reason behind this is focused around my journey and the road to success. As I started to type up my 500 word rationale, I filmed as I typed. I loved this effect a lot so I used it in my piece. The words written are questions I ask myself everyday. I ask these questions as I’m still confused as to what I am doing in life so I came up the notion I just live in the moment.
Imaging Culture was a subject I really enjoyed for my last semester here at Griffith University. Although I had a lot of trouble balancing work commitments and uni I felt I learnt a lot in the subject about images and the culture we currently live in and where my identity fits in this ever changing environment.
Week 8- Time and Spectacle: Journeys of the Eyes and Ears
We talked about the origins of video and sonic art and the way imagery has transformed due to the advances of technology.
We looked at famous philosopher Gilles Deleuze who ‘influential in developing a language for theorising the reception of contemporary artistic expression, in particular these two quintessential “modern”, “post- modern” or “experimental” forms, and their integrated, sometimes less artistic relative, cinema.’
Deleuze thoughts locates him as an influential figure in present-day considerations of society, creativity and subjectivity. Notably, within his metaphysics he favored a Spinozian concept of a plane of immanence with everything a mode of one substance, and thus on the same level of existence. He argued, then, that there is no good and evil, but rather only relationships which are beneficial or harmful to the particular individuals. This ethics influences his approach to society and politics, especially as he was so politically active in struggles for rights and freedoms. Later in his career he wrote some of the more infamous texts of the period, in particular, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. These texts are collaborative works with the radical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, and they exhibit Deleuze’s social and political commitment. - http://www.iep.utm.edu/deleuze/
After surfing the net for some cool digital art I found a couple of links that I just LOVE. These images are manipulated with photoshop and other computer programs that have captured by attention dramatically. I am very interested in digital art as Im also studying New Media art.
Enjoy!
Week 7- Video and Sonic Art: Precursors, Definitions and Receptions
This week we looked into Video art which is a very popular subject of mine as I love working with installations, sound and photos. A site that I came across that is interesting was that of www.videoartchive.org.au which has alot of different artworks. One artwork that I really enjoyed was by an artist Sue Dodd.
http://www.videoartchive.org.au/sdodd/diet.html
I found it hilarious although very interesting.
Another artist that caught my attention was Anne Wilson with her artwork ‘Conversation’
http://www.videoartchive.org.au/awilson/conversation.html
There are many different artworks available on this site for viewing created by Australian artists.
Week 6- Abstract but Useful Ways to think about Culture and its Images
Ok, Im not sure if I was the only one in class that thought this but I had no idea what was going on! It was a very scientific approach to imagery and I lost interest. I understood the concepts and meanings but I like to keep my images simple yet artistic.
Week 5 Tute exercise
Task: Use your camera in ten different spaces (inside and outside the space) to
experiment with the ideas of continuity and separation (discrete or continuous)
- I used my university bag for the experiment as I take this bag around where ever I go, pulling things in and out continuously. In my bag I have alot of valuables that I wouldn’t want the outside to see. Separation from the outside world is what I want with this bag and continuity is the constant movement in and out!
