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Design Journal: Marbles Inspiration
View : http://vimeo.com/1795653
In my search for resources that could help me present marbles in a really Interesting way, I came across this piece on vimeo. I find it inspirational because it captures the beauty of marbles. After looking at this, I realized that it would be neat to discover and record the natural quality of marbles – for instance marbles tend to roll around alot making it difficult to keep them steady. As well, in the video, we see the reflection of the ground in clear marbles, which is another aspect I thought I could keep in mind. The vimeo resource is not filmed with a video camera, it has actually been created through software, which explains its extremely choreographed motion. It would be difficult to attempt this kind of motion, but the concept inspires me more than the technical execution.
Design Journal: Critique
Link to Video:
http://vimeo.com/1198341?pg=embed&sec=1198341
We focused our critique on 1 minute of the video : starting at 3:50 and stopping at 4:50
Critique
Thoughts on Sound
Sound matches the video very well, for instance the feather fluttering according to the sound.
Sound effects are minimal and subtle to help focus on imagery and to only support it.
Movement
Rhythm of movement is sharp at times and then still, it has dramatic and sudden movement.
The shots are composed in a way that leads the eye to a spot where the next shot appears, creating a fluid transition. Interesting shifts in focus, from background, middle ground and foreground in a very systematic way. Explores every bit of the environment by panning.
Overall Concept
It feels like the artist is giving life to remnant of life; like the feather and the feces of the birds. The shifts in movement and focus make this possible. The area of shooting emphasizes the abandonment of space, after it is used.
Creativity Involved
It is a creative way to see an object that is ignored or not appreciated. Editing techniques are not predictable because they are sudden therefore are more lively and surprising. Duration creates suspense for the viewer.
Our Suggestions
We feel that the color of the film is a little bit dull. It doesn’t have excitement or a story-line to follow, so the viewer feels lost. There is no climax, the pace is always equal, suspense is spread over evenly, instead of leading up to a heightened thrill.
Proj 1// Dream Catcher
Designed in collaboration with Joyce Ng
Final Cut Rationale
The keywords that we had in mind were: Time, Escape and Reveal. We structured the sound in a manner that is compl ex at the beginning and then simplified. The chimes, clock sounds, wind were used throughout the soundscape because they symbolize time to us. They sound serene, flowy, and full of movement. By using fast beating sounds at the beginning we wanted to accelerate the listener’s awareness of sound, and then juxtapose it with a slow down and calm progression of it. Keeping this in mind, the images also follow the same procedure, going from complex intertwined and fast changing images into softer, whiter images. Lastly, our transitions make it possible to have many different types of images.
