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Last Friday, Liz, Yan Yan, and I went out together to shoot video for a communication lab assignment. Although we had a video script and concept before shooting, it was too loose and vague to follow it step by step.
Regarding this film, I tried to explore and visualize the association processes of human brain. For example, if someone sees the word “red” in a newspaper, then s/he imagines a red color and sometimes connects it to other objects, such as a girl wearing a red sweater or an apple. Objects in this linkage may be amazingly various: written word, spoken word, melody, smell, touch, color, movement, changing, scenery and abstractive concept.
We carried a camcorder, a microphone, two lights, and a tripod. Even though the first place in our plan was a park, we rode the wrong train and ended up in Chinatown. However, we decided to shoot there because we don’t need to shoot in specific place as long as shooting remains the main concept.
Despite our trying to follow the main theme, it was quite difficult to find good objects as well as linkages because of the extremely crowded conditions and sudden cold. Although we literally failed to track our initial script, I think that, ironically, the results reflected our free association process.
In addition, we didn’t divide tasks amongst each other, such as director, cameraman or actor. In spite of the fact that it was somehow confusing while shooting as well as thinking next shot, it was a good chance to perform each part.
The next step is editing, wherein I will try to express my initial concept.
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Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880 - 1910
Grey Art Gallery
The first impression of the exhibition, “Moving Pictures” at the Grey Art Gallery is that I am amazed by how the painting and film create an intriguing juxtaposition to our eyes. The still painting emphasizes the brushes, the paints, the colors and the strokes along with the film, which expresses the movements and its realistic gestures.
I think that the most essential characteristic of painting is stillness of image and that of moving picture is flow of images. I suggest that the next step of image will be involved with interaction or selection of images
I am especially interested in the tricky film in this exhibition. In the film, when a painter draw hat, he got a real hat after a second and the character in the painting changed his face. I think the magic could be possible because the film was flow of images so that producer could cut, copied and pasted the flow of the still images.
While I consider this effect, which is enabled by the basic characteristic of moving pictures, I think further about what the moving really is? For defining the moving, I explore more examples. At first, even in the case of moving pictures, the film itself doesn’t move before someone run it through a projector. Moreover, if someone take a movie of a chameleon, which doesn’t move but changes its color, audience may say it’s a film. Therefore, most important point in the film is not the physical moving but simply changing the images in the film projector.
As a result, I can say that moving is perception, imagination and operation of the brain. In addition, if we dream in the night, we may feel the moving in the dream. If we close eyes and imagine something, we can make them move in our mind.
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