Monday, April 21, 2008
Final task
-plan your idea as a gallery installation - physical objects in a gallery that the audience can interact with.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Interrogated Ideas
Questions from group mates
What equipment do you need?
2 projectors, 2 computers, 1 tv, 4 DV cams
Where can i shoot?
My garage
Are you going to use dynamic?
Maybe...
What do you want them to feel?
happy and comfortable
How many camera do you need?
4 should be enough
What is the length of the video?
Around 15 to 20 mins
Are they any depth meaning?
Just try something new
How many people will be in the production?
7 or 8
How long is it going to take to film?
15 to 20 mins
Question from teacher
Is the audience going to sit and watch it in a festival context?
I hope so, but I going to work in my garage, so it is bit too small for audience to sit and watch. If someone really wants to come I can do something.
Would it be screened in a gallery?
Again… I hope so… just depends...i hope it would be screened in gallery.
Do you want the audience to watch it from beginning to end?
Yes. I supposed everyone to watch it from beginning to the end.
Do you see it in a fine arts context?
Yes… it can be anything.
Will you shoot the video that the musician responds to?
Yes, I am going to shoot different kind of sea waves.
How will you choose what is in the video?
Just randomly choose something I like.
Will you carryout this experiment multiple times, with different video images, or different participants?
No...my plan is 1 time only (no rehearse and no U turn)
When you edit the video together, will we understand immediately what is happening and how the different elements relate to one another?
The meaning is just a meaning; it belongs to the project so I think everyone should have his or her own meaning of the video. However, at that time meaning and outcome are not important anymore, so just enjoy the moment and watch the video.
Or will this be revealed over time?
Maybe…
If you were posing a question by doing this, what would it be?
I think it would be “Why not?” or “Who cares?”
What equipment do you need?
2 projectors, 2 computers, 1 tv, 4 DV cams
Where can i shoot?
My garage
Are you going to use dynamic?
Maybe...
What do you want them to feel?
happy and comfortable
How many camera do you need?
4 should be enough
What is the length of the video?
Around 15 to 20 mins
Are they any depth meaning?
Just try something new
How many people will be in the production?
7 or 8
How long is it going to take to film?
15 to 20 mins
Question from teacher
Is the audience going to sit and watch it in a festival context?
I hope so, but I going to work in my garage, so it is bit too small for audience to sit and watch. If someone really wants to come I can do something.
Would it be screened in a gallery?
Again… I hope so… just depends...i hope it would be screened in gallery.
Do you want the audience to watch it from beginning to end?
Yes. I supposed everyone to watch it from beginning to the end.
Do you see it in a fine arts context?
Yes… it can be anything.
Will you shoot the video that the musician responds to?
Yes, I am going to shoot different kind of sea waves.
How will you choose what is in the video?
Just randomly choose something I like.
Will you carryout this experiment multiple times, with different video images, or different participants?
No...my plan is 1 time only (no rehearse and no U turn)
When you edit the video together, will we understand immediately what is happening and how the different elements relate to one another?
The meaning is just a meaning; it belongs to the project so I think everyone should have his or her own meaning of the video. However, at that time meaning and outcome are not important anymore, so just enjoy the moment and watch the video.
Or will this be revealed over time?
Maybe…
If you were posing a question by doing this, what would it be?
I think it would be “Why not?” or “Who cares?”
Class Task 4: Interrogating Our Ideas(Melvyn, Michael, Jen-Hwa, Edward Wan)
Name: Melvyn Soong
Concept Synopsis:
Name: Edward Wan
Concept Synopsis:
Name: Michael Hall
Concept Synopsis:
Name: Jen-Hwa Tung
Concept Synopsis:
Concept Synopsis:
PUPPET JEALOUSYProject Type:
Tim & Tam are a pair of handmade marionettes belonging to Wang's string-puppet show. All is well until jealousy sets in between the marionettes during a performance one night and left Tim seriously damaged. Wang's performance lost popularity due to the loss of one of his key characters of the show. With the show on the brink of closing down, Tam realizes his mistake to save the show.
- 3D animation
- Achievability?
- Length? maybe 1:30?
- Ending
- What kind of background/foreground going to be use?
- What's the over all style?
- Are there going to be any texture?
- What is my target audience?
- What do you want them to feel?
- What is the animation style am I going to use?
- What is the purpose of the animation?
- What is the length of the animation?
- How do I make the sound scape?
- How many characters are there going to be?
Name: Edward Wan
Concept Synopsis:
Video ContentProject Type:
The audience will see an artist is dancing in front of a wall. And at the same time he is listening to the other musician’s music from headphone. And at the same time the musician is watching some sea wave video and he plays music randomly. And at the same time there are two projectors are projecting video on the wall, one is projecting the sound wave from the musician’s music, the other one is projecting the sea wave video that the musician is watching.
Concept & Outcome
Firstly, this project is an experiment. It is showing a new form of listening (looking) to music and using a different form to perform music. By using visual form to look at music. In addition, video and dancing will be the part of the experiment and they will help the audience to understand the idea.
Secondly, some the teammates of this project such as the dancer and camera man will be some normal students (don’t know about art very well), so the final product will be unpredictable. Because not everyone can see this experiment in live so it is going to be recorded by video cameras so it will be easier to let people know about this project. And hopefully it can inspire more people to try to do more interesting things.
- Experimental Video
- budget
- equipments
- What equipment do you need?
- Where can i shoot?
- Are you going to use dynamic?
- What is my target audience?
- What do you want them to feel?
- How many camera do you need?
- What is the length of the video?
- Are they any depth meaning?
- How many people will be in the production?
- How long is it going to take to film?
Name: Michael Hall
Concept Synopsis:
The third idea is sort of random; it’s a experimental video type concept that I think may be great for a TV add of some sort, would sit well in that medium. The basic plot starts off with objects falling from the sky. TVs, cupboards, glass windows, all fall from the sky from a great height. There will be lots of quick camera cut shots, close ups, wide shots etc, hence the chaos feel.
After all these random objects fall from the sky smashing into the ground the camera will turn and pan to the perfect degree (which will be the top view), to reveal a picture from all the smashed objects.
The chaos has created unity with itself creating a very calm pleasant picture of the product being published.
Product may be my name, title of production, logo, or maybe just a cool picture of a dragon fighting a man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWnj7ZNxa_MProject Type:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb8P7dfjVw
The Sony Bravia Ads are a perfect example of what I would like to head towards with this concept. The Ad of the explosion of colours starts off with a calm atmosphere then transforms into chaos as all the colour explosions set off. Once the chaos is complete the calm atmosphere returns, a pleasant outcome that restates the product being published. The use of the chaos actions has produced a clear calm product outcome. The same kind of feel/ motion I would like to take to my experimental video.
- Experimental Film
- How to pull it off?
- How will I create the camera movements involved?
- How many cameras will be used to shoot with??
- How big is the crew/ how many people needed?
- Why do I want to create this piece?
- Target audience?
- Sound scape that will be used?
- What's the location that will be filmed at?
- How will I get the equipment to be used throughout the piece?
- How much will the production cost?
- How do I want it to be interpreted to the audience?
Name: Jen-Hwa Tung
Concept Synopsis:
Calm 心靜Project Type:
In a small little Chinese temple, a little monk is meditating beside his master. They are both sitting under a big tree calmly. While they are still meditating, a mosquito flies beside the little monk’s ear. The sound of the flying mosquito is making the little monk unable to concentrate. The little monk swing his hand left and right trying to scare away the mosquito. Shortly the little monk opens his eye and ready to attack. CLAP!! The little monk got the mosquito. The little monk is happy and he returns to his meditation. Out of the blue, three more mosquitoes are flying all around the little monk’s head. Almost immediately the little monk lost his patient and jump right up to scare away the mosquitoes. He swing his hands everywhere CLAP!! CLAP!! CLAP!! More and More and MORE!! Mosquitoes appear. Soon the little monk run out of breath, he looks at his master, then he realize there isn’t any mosquitoes around his master. The little monk quickly sits back to his position and meditates. Magically the atmosphere change to very peaceful and calm, and all the mosquitoes are gone. The Master peeks on the little monk and smile.
“更宜调息净心，常如冰雪在心，炎热亦于吾心少减。不可以热为热，更生热矣。”故越是天热，我们越要“心静”，遇事戒躁戒怒，心平气和.
Translated phrase from above:
“When the mind is still, you will be calm, cool and collected”
- 3D animation
- skill of making it
- What kind of background going to be use?
- What's the over all style?
- Are you going to use dynamic?
- Are there going to be any texture?
- What is my target audience?
- What do you want them to feel?
- What is the animation style am I going to use?
- What is the purpose of the animation?
- What is the length of the animation?
- Are they any depth meaning?
- What is the character's characteristic?
- How do I make the sound?
Major Project: Synopses of ideas
Idea.1
Video Contend
The audience will see an artist is dancing in front of a wall. And at the same time he is listening to the other musician’s music from headphone. And at the same time the musician is watching some sea wave video and he plays music randomly. And at the same time there are two projectors are projecting video on the wall, one is projecting the sound wave from the musician’s music, the other one is projecting the sea wave video that the musician is watching.
Concept & Outcome
Firstly, this project is an experiment. It is showing a new form of listening (looking) to music and using a different form to perform music. By using visual form to look at music. In addition, video and dancing will be the part of the experiment and they will help the audience to understand the idea.
Secondly, some the teammates of this project such as the dancer and camera man will be some normal students (don’t know about art very well), so the final product will be unpredictable. Because not everyone can see this experiment in live so it is going to be recorded by video cameras so it will be easier to let people know about this project. And hopefully it can inspire more people to try to do more interesting things.
Idea.2
Video Contend
The camera will film at an A2 size glass. Then a man will stick some newspapers and images on the glass. Those newspapers and images will show about war, violent, discrimination, drugs etc. When the glass has fully covered by them, the guy will use a hammer to break the glass from the back of it.
Concept & Outcome
There are many crimes in the world. And most of them are done my teenager. (The man in the video will be a teenager) This video shows that teenagers can control their mind and behavior. Although you have done something wrong, you still have chance and choice.
In addition, the video will show that people should always remember and remind those crimes. People should be positive; people should “KNOW” about the crime but not “REMEMBER”.
Idea.3
Video Contend
The video will be shown in first person angle (main character). But everything the audience can see will be blurred. Because this video is going to let the audiences experiment having shortsighted. The main character in the video has lost his eyeglasses in the morning. He can’t find it so he just wakes up without the eyeglasses. The main character will do some normal things (such as brushing teeth), but his vision is blurring so he will get in many troubles.
Concept & Outcome
According to www.wrongdiagnosis.com, there are more people getting shortsighted, in US, there are approximately 1/3 of publication have shortsighted. And shortsighted actually can make people become blind. Therefore this short video is going to use a relaxed way to show how troublesome shortsighted is and tell people to protect their eyes.
Idea.4
Video Contend
A person will stand in front of a big white background. And the person will in the middle of the background. And 1 projector will project some video on the person and the white background. (Left or right side only)
Video Contend
The audience will see an artist is dancing in front of a wall. And at the same time he is listening to the other musician’s music from headphone. And at the same time the musician is watching some sea wave video and he plays music randomly. And at the same time there are two projectors are projecting video on the wall, one is projecting the sound wave from the musician’s music, the other one is projecting the sea wave video that the musician is watching.
Concept & Outcome
Firstly, this project is an experiment. It is showing a new form of listening (looking) to music and using a different form to perform music. By using visual form to look at music. In addition, video and dancing will be the part of the experiment and they will help the audience to understand the idea.
Secondly, some the teammates of this project such as the dancer and camera man will be some normal students (don’t know about art very well), so the final product will be unpredictable. Because not everyone can see this experiment in live so it is going to be recorded by video cameras so it will be easier to let people know about this project. And hopefully it can inspire more people to try to do more interesting things.
Idea.2
Video Contend
The camera will film at an A2 size glass. Then a man will stick some newspapers and images on the glass. Those newspapers and images will show about war, violent, discrimination, drugs etc. When the glass has fully covered by them, the guy will use a hammer to break the glass from the back of it.
Concept & Outcome
There are many crimes in the world. And most of them are done my teenager. (The man in the video will be a teenager) This video shows that teenagers can control their mind and behavior. Although you have done something wrong, you still have chance and choice.
In addition, the video will show that people should always remember and remind those crimes. People should be positive; people should “KNOW” about the crime but not “REMEMBER”.
Idea.3
Video Contend
The video will be shown in first person angle (main character). But everything the audience can see will be blurred. Because this video is going to let the audiences experiment having shortsighted. The main character in the video has lost his eyeglasses in the morning. He can’t find it so he just wakes up without the eyeglasses. The main character will do some normal things (such as brushing teeth), but his vision is blurring so he will get in many troubles.
Concept & Outcome
According to www.wrongdiagnosis.com, there are more people getting shortsighted, in US, there are approximately 1/3 of publication have shortsighted. And shortsighted actually can make people become blind. Therefore this short video is going to use a relaxed way to show how troublesome shortsighted is and tell people to protect their eyes.
Idea.4
Video Contend
A person will stand in front of a big white background. And the person will in the middle of the background. And 1 projector will project some video on the person and the white background. (Left or right side only)
Research Task 3: Visual Research
Zen for Film (1964)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1sOsIrshU
In 1964, Nam June Paik made Zen for Film (referred to as Fluxfilm No. 1), which consisted of nothing but clear film leader running through a projector. This film action, as it might be called, was made in the anti-art, anti-commercial atmosphere of Fluxus performances. Paik eliminated the film image completely, partly in jest, but mostly as an act of defiance against the highly aesthetic zed filmed image of even such experimental filmmakers as Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger. About forty Fluxfilms are on record, ranging from Dick Higgins’s Invocation of Canyons and Boulders for Stan Brakhage (Fluxfilm No.2 1963) to Wolf Vostell’s Sun in Your Head (Fluxfilm No.23, 1963) to Paul Sharits’s Word Movie (Fluxfilm No.30, 1966). The Vostell film has particular significance for the history of Video art in that he used his 8-millimeter film camera to shoot videotaped material from television programs, thus displacing both the ‘revered’ film image (by focusing his camera on already videotaped material) and the ‘direct’ video image (by re-recording it with film). This type of subversion of social and artistic structures was hallmark of Fluxus.
Reseach Task 2: News Article
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1722633,00.html
What was Hong Kong known as back then in 2003? A SARS affected country?
A worried and helpless area?
Time passes so fast, it was five years ago and now in 2008, there’s this flu is hitting Hong Kong suddenly and everybody is getting nervous and serious.
This flu had killed about 4 kids up till now.
What you can really care about now?
Flu and sickness is not the only thing that is threatening out lives.
Life is so short and full of “surprises”.
Through another case of this, I realize life is very strange... You never know what is happening the next second. The only question in my mind is "What are we doing now?"
Human has been too unsatisfied with their lives and so they invent and generate a lot more things, which brings the technology up higher and higher, and by this time, human gets too proud of what they have done to the society, but then they have ignored the side-effects or the dark sides from all those technologies and improvement…
I don't think H5N1 was existed in the old days. Maybe those new technologies are just too much some times.
Things are getting too complicated…
What are we doing now? Are we doing something right? ...Let say... i have been learning about "zen" and Chinese think for 3 years. But one day i asked myself, "Am i happy? And is Zen 100% suitable for me? Zen asks us not to have sex...but i want..."
And i have thought of something and it woke me up...
If i spent my whole life to understand Zen, i would just stand under Zen for my whole life. So what is above Zen??????
The answer is "ME".
According to this news, i think i really have to think deeper to understand myself...
what i should do in the rest of my life.
The flu that causes all these happens is called H5N1*
Quoting from wikipedia: “Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as A(H5N1) or simply H5N1, is a subtype of the Influenza A virus which can cause illness in humans and many other animal species.[1] A bird-adapted strain of H5N1, called HPAI A(H5N1) for "highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1", is the causative agent of H5N1 flu, commonly known as "avian influenza" or "bird flu". It is endemic in many bird populations, especially in Southeast Asia. One strain of HPAI A(H5N1) is spreading globally after first appearing in Asia. It is epizootic (an epidemic in nonhumans) and panzootic (affecting animals of many species, especially over a wide area), killing tens of millions of birds and spurring the culling of hundreds of millions of others to stem its spread. Most references to "bird flu" and H5N1 in the popular media refer to this strain.[2]
Terminology
H5N1 isolates are identified like this actual HPAI A(H5N1) example, A/chicken/Nakorn-Patom/Thailand/CU-K2/04(H5N1):
• A stands for the species of influenza (A, B or C).
• chicken is the species the isolate was found in
• Nakorn-Patom/Thailand is the place this specific virus was isolated
• CU-K2 identifies it from other influenza viruses isolated at the same place
• 04 represents the year 2004
• H5 stands for the fifth of several known types of the protein hemagglutinin.
• N1 stands for the first of several known types of the protein neuraminidase.
*Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5n1
4 Kids that were killed in this flu during 2008 February were at an age about 2-7 years old
Metaphors:
Kids are passing away one by one, they may not have much in hopes or any big wishes, and to the grown-up, we should planned a bit more for their life or even for the next generations, this may be a bit like a “big-talk”.
But do whatever you like, even the whole world is rejecting, but just do it as long as you are happy about it. =)
PS. I am from Hong Kong.
Week 2 Task Representation and Character
Step 1
My Brother.
Tough, hard working, aggressive, helpful, responsible, indomitable
Once he has got the idea and he will try his best to achieve it.
Step 2
Everyone is so happy tonight. Smoking, drinking and dancing. But suddenly my friend next to me has been knocked down. “What’s happen?” I shout. I am so afraid because I see a big guy is running toward me. The big guy is coming; he is going to punch me. Oh God! Suddenly the big guy stops. He is so close to me. Someone pulls him down. It is he! He pulls the big guy down and asks me to run. I find somewhere safe and watch the fight. It is so messy. There are more than 6 people. And I see the big guy is fighting with him. The big guy is taller, bigger than him, but he just tries to stop him. Oh no! The big guy has just punch on his stomach. And I short loudly and ask him to come. He sees me and runs towards me immediately. And we both run outside the club and the bouncers’ just stop the big guy.
Step 3
Sunny, Tiger, knife, grass molding machine, night club, Andrew WK, black
Step 4
My Brother.
Tough, hard working, aggressive, helpful, responsible, indomitable
Once he has got the idea and he will try his best to achieve it.
Step 2
Everyone is so happy tonight. Smoking, drinking and dancing. But suddenly my friend next to me has been knocked down. “What’s happen?” I shout. I am so afraid because I see a big guy is running toward me. The big guy is coming; he is going to punch me. Oh God! Suddenly the big guy stops. He is so close to me. Someone pulls him down. It is he! He pulls the big guy down and asks me to run. I find somewhere safe and watch the fight. It is so messy. There are more than 6 people. And I see the big guy is fighting with him. The big guy is taller, bigger than him, but he just tries to stop him. Oh no! The big guy has just punch on his stomach. And I short loudly and ask him to come. He sees me and runs towards me immediately. And we both run outside the club and the bouncers’ just stop the big guy.
Step 3
Sunny, Tiger, knife, grass molding machine, night club, Andrew WK, black
Step 4
Franz Kline (1910-62)
"You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has noting to do with knowing, it has to do with giving."
---Franz Kline
One of Pollock’s favourite drinking partners at the Cedar Tavern was Franz Kline. Originally a figurative painter, Kline discovered a new approach to working after enlarging one of his small pencil sketches. The enlargement created some interesting abstract designs, and it was from these that Kline created his large black and white gestural paintings. Because he only used black, the linear quality of Kline’s work created parallels with element of Asian calligraphy. The broadly applied areas of paint reflect Kline’s slashing arm movement.
I like his work because I just like it. He inspired me to do something in an expressionistic, aggressive way. Just let my arms to draw just let my body to move without thinking. Stop worrying about the result…
…learning while we are doing…
Spend more time to find our own form…once we have got an idea...our life is short…stop thinking the difficulty and just try to do it :P
Week 1 Task 3 things.
Cigarette
I was around 17,18. My brother is a smoker and he smokes a lot. So when I go out with him, like going to a shopping mall. He usually smokes before entering the mall and I just stand next to him and wait. And one day I was standing next to him and I thought, “Smoking is not that bad. At least it provides people a moment to stay in outdoor area.”
Staying indoor area like office, classroom etc. with air conditioner makes people stupid. So that what I think why people want to smoke. Although the cigarette makes our lungs dirty, but it cleans our mind and makes us awake. Although the time is short, like 5 to 15mins, but I think it is better than 0.
Let say if you worked 8 hours a day, slept 8 hours a day. It means you only have 8 hours left a day. And in those 8 hours you might spend most of the time at home, friends’ home, café etc. if you didn’t really like to do outdoor activities, the only time you spend in outdoor area, would be walking to the train station or waiting at bus stop…
Or standing next to a smoker.
I was around 17,18. My brother is a smoker and he smokes a lot. So when I go out with him, like going to a shopping mall. He usually smokes before entering the mall and I just stand next to him and wait. And one day I was standing next to him and I thought, “Smoking is not that bad. At least it provides people a moment to stay in outdoor area.”
Staying indoor area like office, classroom etc. with air conditioner makes people stupid. So that what I think why people want to smoke. Although the cigarette makes our lungs dirty, but it cleans our mind and makes us awake. Although the time is short, like 5 to 15mins, but I think it is better than 0.
Let say if you worked 8 hours a day, slept 8 hours a day. It means you only have 8 hours left a day. And in those 8 hours you might spend most of the time at home, friends’ home, café etc. if you didn’t really like to do outdoor activities, the only time you spend in outdoor area, would be walking to the train station or waiting at bus stop…
Or standing next to a smoker.
Class Task 1: Alien's Report
Group members: Jen-Hwa Tung, Edward Wan
While exploring planet earth, we come across this object, here is our summarized report.
- Square x 1
- Circle x 1
- Hole x 1
- Material x 2
- Strange patten on the circle
- Different Colour
- Circle - hard
- Square - soft
- Many strange symbols on the square
After long investigation on the object, we think the symbols is the key to activating it, but what we do not know are, what will happen if it got activated? what is the purpose of it and will it bring us any harm to our planet if we bring it back to our lab for further investigation.
here is our formula that we figured out: Square x Circle + material x 2 + Symbols = ?
we think further experiment on this object is necessary, we are here by asking for permission to bring the object to our planet.
Bxukalieex
Xeijena
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