Thursday, 27 May 2010
A step by step of what I did during project 4
I started of the process of creating my video clip by doing research on my chosen area witch was the graveyards, I then drew a story board and wrote out my script. We went to the castle and filmed, we captured the video, edited it and outputted it.
Video Artists
Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations. Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data.
David Hall (born 1937) is a British video artist, whose pioneering work did much to establish video as an art form. During the 1960s he worked as a sculptor and showed his work internationally. He won first prize at the Biennale de Paris in 1965 and took part in other key shows including Primary Structures, New York in 1966 which marked the beginning of Minimalist art. Soon he began working with film and at the beginning of the 1970s turned to video as an art medium.
Lisa Steele (b. 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of V tape in Toronto. Born in the United States, Steele moved to Canada in 1968 and is now a Canadian citizen. She has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s. An important pioneer of video art in Canada since the early 1970s, Steele has shown internationally at the Venice Biennale (1980), the Kunsthalle (Basel), the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the National Gallery of Canada, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 49th Parallel Videoseries, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Long Beach Museum.
Danny Matthys (Zottegem 1947) is a Flemish - Belgian visual artist, which was originally known as conceptual artist of international reputation. In the beginning of his career in the sixties of the 20th century, he was a pioneer in Polaroid art and Video art.
Digital Videos
There are different methods of storing and displaying digital videos.
Storing digital videos Displaying digital videos
1) on the original tape 1) through the TV
2) on computer hard drive 2) on the computer monitor
3) on a memory stick 3) on an over head projector
Documentary Makers
I have looked at different documentary makers to get a better idea about how to put together my segment of our project.
I found an Australian wildlife documentary maker named Malcolm Douglas who goes around Australia filming his adventures with the help of his mate and dog that accompany him. He is sometimes referred to as the barefoot bushman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUiliNiTxus
My lecturer suggested I should also look at Michel Moore and Anthony Q Artis.
I found some information about Michel Moore on Wikipedia which i found interesting to read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore
Anthony Q Artis has a blog were he posts his work.
http://downanddirtydv.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Stirling Castle Documentary
I have been very busy doing research for my part of the documentary. The group I have been placed in consits of Jennifer and Alexandra along with myself.
From the 2nd through 19th of April the entire college is on Easter Break after we returned we started planning for the trip up to the castle. During this trip we must get enough usable footage for our parts of the documentary, then in the fallowing weeks we will edit it all together to make a cohesive DVD.
On the 29th of April we went up to the castle to do our filming. Our class divided into groups and proceeded to film footage relevant to our own topics. I did the majority of filming for my group. We did not get to use a tripod as there was a shortage of them, so some of the footage might be a bit shaky.
May the 2nd and 3rd were college in-service days. Thursday the 6th we tried to up load the footage but the computers wouldn't cooperate with us so we had to leave it for the fallowing week after the maintenance man has had a look at them and fixed the problem.
Editing is going well however when Alex and I tried to do our over dubbing the mics didn't really want to work. We should finish our part of the documentary by the end of next week.
