Creating my video

I wanted to create an instalation which revolves around a piece of music, responding to the rhythmic features tempo. The piece I have chosen is 'Stelify' by Ian Brown. This was a tough choice as I wanted to use a piece that had a stong, heavy pulse to work with and this piece has that, as well as different textures to use.

The challenge I faced was to create an an interesting instalation with the three short clips I had. So I used a variety of different techniques to create a a flowing piece:

The first interesting technique I used was to play the video, but in reverse, making the paint appear to be cleared up by the brush.

Certain clips had to be shortened or stretched, in order to sync them in time with the clip, and I think this created a nice effect.

One technique which I used was to create a 'pixel' effect where I set a series of the clips up on a grid and stagger the entries, with about 4 new clips popping up every second, to create the effect shown below:

To the right shows how I created the staggered effect. I did so by creating roughly 30 new video tracks, and positioning each new track just infront of the previous. This was quite time consuming but I was pleased with the results.






Another process I used was changing the opacity to make seemless entries and to fade clips in and out. To stagger the opacity of a clip, i would drag the yellow bar that lies on top of a clip and stretch it accordingly from 0 - 100% opacity. (The longer the slant, the slower the clip will fade to full opacity.

Initial video creation

I have created 3 short videos that use the idea I initially created; using wire paint brushes to spread paint on a drum head.

I set the process up by using a large sheet of white paper as a clear background, focusing attention on the drumskin I placed on it. This was fixed to the paper using masking tape to prevent it from sliding. I then attached the camera to a stand.

Here is my three recordings. . .

I will be editing these short films in 'Premiere Elements', using techniques such as re-winding the clips, to look like the paint is being cleaned up. This will create a clever effect.

I may also encorporate a clip of music and colour co-ordinate the clips to create different moods. For example, red symobolises anger and tension whereas blue may appear a calmer colour.

Movie

I have come up with a movie idea which encorporates music into art; wire drum brushes have

the ability to spread out, so I could use these to mimick a paint brush, and spread paint over a drum skin, using different colours of paint.

The idea I have come up with is to select colours of paint, and place a small amount at the bottom of the drum skin. I will then spread this paint outwards towards the top of the skin. Using 'Adobe Premiere' I would then reverse this small clip til the start leaving the blob of paint.

I will do this with several colours, which could

remesmble different parts of a chosen song (acting as a code)

Relationship between music and architecture

My final piece idea is based on photos aquired at the Southbank centre.

The image to the left is a photo that I am going to repeatedly minipulate heavily, using photoshop, and by photomontage, and using the dark room etc.

I chose this photo due to the outstanding lines and textures it, working against each other.

This phto is one I have minipulated in photoshop by overlapping the same image ontop of each other and experimenting with different colours.

I would like to encorporate this design and approach into part of my final piece.