Merry Christmas!!

The Final Frontier

I was asked to make a one minute video for a festival in HK before I came to US.
So, after all I learnt so many thing here, here is my one min video.

Version 3.45

I tried to make it shorter, in fact I cut almost 30 second, but then I add 2 second blank black in the front and I changed the end, so........ it's now around 6:45.

still could not figure out what to do in the second half. maybe I should just leave the stage. i have one more day to think about it.

version 3.1

did some changes, a little bit shorter, more fragmented
the rythem of the video has changed, too.

version 3.0

I hope this is the last version, but.... you know..... you never know.
It's been really far from the very original thought. Or I shall say, somehow it brings me to here.
I am not sure what to do with this video, it seems that, it can stay alone itself.

There are some words and sentenses I would like to list down here about the video:
waiting, writing letter/lyrics, screen saver, want/dont want, hands, present/absent,
wait for 10 mins then you will see the screen saver
screen saver pop out when i am away for more than 10 mins
screen saver originally is made to save the screen, not for our appreciation
i used to put someone else's photo as a slide show for my screen saver but i rarely see them, and normally when i see them, i tape my space bar to back to my windows. and i dont want my friend to see those photos, so, before they come to visit me in my house, i will change my screen saver.
i want to write a letter to someone, but i feel like i should not write
i think lyrics is less direct to show someone's thought
i did not choose a very pin point music for this video, but it shows part of my thought
my thought is contradictory

Title name suddently pop up in my head this evening and that is : You are my screen saver.
Now, I truely have a direction of what this piece is about.

This is another version .
It seems a bit too long. I leave some empty space in this version.

Cloning Effect - When Bruce Scare Bruce

um...Bad eye contact....

It has been a while after the mid term showing, I have been thinking what is next?
Since the finger wrting thing really imprint in my mind, I would like to try on something about writing, finger walk and color.

It's like an un-send letter perhaps.


Started to learn about Final Cut, at this stage, it is still so much like Premiere. But I am sure there is reason why most professional has shifted from Premiere to Final Cut.

Mid Term CAP project

Online now!

My Hands.....

Mix and match from the videos I filmed, cut and psate, fade in fade out, less brightless and more contrast, Opacity 50%, sometime 30%, reverse it, change color balance, add a spot light........ In fact, it is quite fun to play around with all of these effects in my PC.

I did not aim at anything for this trial, but it seems something comes out which is out of my expectatioin.

I choose a music for it. The story goes like this, one day, I play my ipod in shuffle mode, and I suddently hear a beautiful piano intro. So, I use it.

Now, it is a bit walking away from my original idea, but why not let it flow. It may bring something surprise me again.

Will see it on Thursday.

iMovie

We practiced using iMovie last Thursday, it is a very easy and user friendly tool for editing video.
Here is a little trial from the class.



It's funny that the sound at the end, and I do think that the color tone at the end looks like some kind of memorial's video...... :P

Drawings.....

We had a fun class this Thursday, we did some sketchs.....

Drawing no. 1
We use a Charcoal to rub on a paper under any surface in the studio.















Drawing no.2
By looking at other's sketchs, we choose one of our favorite line, and draw it on our own. (It supposed to fill up the whole paper, however, I guess I need 2 more years to finish it. So, I leave it this way)

































Drawing no.3
Think of any line and draw it with eye closed.















Drawing no. 4
Think of one movement that involve our whole body and be able to draw a repeating stroke on a paper.















Drawing no.5
Think of a phrase of five movements. Then draw it on the paper!
We also need to re-interprete other's work to make up a phrase. Hahaha

Since I do not have a Mac

Thank you, Jo!

Ver 1.0

Colors and emotion seems to have a natural bonding, whether color reflexes emotion or emotion affected by the color you see.

The project aim at working on using different colors to create different visual effects which could be something like screen saver, or I will try to paint some images on different types of materials, and photograph them.

After filming these elements, I would like it to be projected on a performer’s hand.

Further on, I want this whole thing to be filmed again in one shot. So, I would need a very dark space to do it, in order not to lose (not to lose too much of) the quality of the very first video.

This last video will be projected in the final. Performer should be dancing with it.

By doing all these, I want to explore the layers of colors and emotion. As simple as tears and laughter can happen together or red can represents both love and angry.

Proposal ver 0.9

Explore the relationship of colour and emotion through visal image.

Wind is blowing.

Have been thinking about the final project......

"Make work from what you know" <- I like this one.

Then, what do I know??
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I have been thinking for really long time that, life is a piece of blank paper, people leaving their colours on us. Sometime people leave us scars. Vice versa, we paint our colour to others as well. We crack sometime, so that we leave some of our pieces in some place. At the end, we are not so pure, but we are experienced.
I guess this concept is somehow from my old pal Elaine Kwok.
um.......
Could this is be the starting point?


Other thing that I want to try for a while, is to start a work without any statment at the beginning. And let the process bring me to a place that I would never expect, and let it be something.
I guess I am somehow affected by my old colleague Xing Liang and Sangba, but I think this is still very worth to try, it will be a big break through for me.
Then how to start? Yes, start with thing that I am familiar with, which has to be moving my body, move it in my favourite way, and make it more complex, more difficult, more extreme......

Two notes for tonight!

Here I go.

A journey has started in Roanoke, Virginia

A blog has made for the CAP class.