Final Project Finished

I put in more pauses and made a new mix of wind chimes.

Project 3 Revision

Project3 Revision from diana hunter on Vimeo.

In the revision I remixed the audio using more of the heart thump noise I captured by mistake one time. I also took the last phrase it’s time to move forward and made it more coherent.

Project 2 Revision

The revisions that I made for this project where adjusting the phasing into new sound, background adjustment and fading in and out. In the beginning of the crickets, I took out an odd chirp that I think came from my smoke detector. I also brought the cricket chirping down to be more of a back ground noise once the opening of the door was introduced. Sounds of scratching where then adjusted to become progressively worse instead of a flat position on the audio line. Lastly, I changed the ending to be more smooth between the cricket chirp segments. I also re-introduced the beginning level of sound for the cricket chirping before fading out to the end.

Final Project Update Dec 8th

Here's the updated version of my final.

The speaker is Mrs. Wong and she reflects about the time spent with her grandmother as a child up until college. In the end she notices that time was a lot shorter then she thought when it came to how long she had left with her own grandmother. I hope to relay this idea that time is fickle and that we don't know how long we really have with others, especially our elderly. I added the wind chimes to give the listener a feeling of place and of time passing as she speaks about her short time with her grandmother. I can't say exactly why but wind chimes make me think of reminiscing and story telling.

Final Project so far

Mrs Wong was recorded on Thanksgiving for the 40 minute interview. I went through the two hour audio and found that the memory of her grandmother was the most meaningful part of the interview. I wanted to get across the idea that grandparents are not forever and that we should enjoy the few years that we have with them while we can.

*Sigh* Another different final project idea D;

My brother's medication is messing with him and all he can do is stare blankly at the turkey. So the plan fell through which wasn't so bad because I had a list of people in mind.

Anyways, I mentioned the interview to family members at both households that I was visiting. A lot of people treated the microphone as if it was gunna suck out their soul if they spoke into it, which I had to remind them that only cameras do that. Finally my boyfriend's grandmother mentions some stories and I start recording her. In the end, I believe that I got something really meaningful for my final. It made me miss my Nanna. I write to her every week <3

But I also miss the stories of my brother burning giant piles of poo in the army.

New Final Project Plan

I have decided to do an audio piece around the interview with my brother. The interview audio will only be two minutes or less. If the story is really interesting then it will go longer. He is a paranoid/ depressed/ schizophrenic that used to serve in the army so he has a lot to say and it is all really interesting and sometimes funny.

There will be additional audio added to the commentary by my brother.

My plan: Record brother on thanksgiving. Over the following weekend I will edit down the 40 minutes and find something really interesting for the 2-3 minutes. Then I will make a list of sounds that I think will be best for the background. Over the course of that week I would like to record audio relevant to the interview. The weekend before the audio is due, I would like to edit the audio.

Final project plan

What you plan to create or develop:

I would like to develop the video.

What you hope to learn and or develop in the process:

Hopefully I will learn how to make the video seem more disjointed with some effects. I would also like to add some better audio. The audio I was thinking of would have an empty feeling.

How you plan to go about the project:

My plans are to record some sounds that give the feeling of disjointed emptiness. Such a type of noise would be static on a television or a record that has completed but is still turning. Once I have the audio worked out, I would like to work with the video and make some interesting edits.

A timeline for your work and revision between now and dec 8:

My timeline is to work with video this week (from now until 22^nd) and see if there are any types of edits or effects that I would like to add. Next week I would like to collect audio and add the new audio to the video. (from 23^rd until 29^th) For the weekend before the video is due (27^th until 29^th) I will be finishing the edits for the video and audio to make sure that everything is running smoothly and to see if I want to add any more audio or video effects. At this point I would rather be at the stage of fine tuning everything.

Final Video

Untitled from diana hunter on Vimeo.


The video is about what is going through the mind of someone who might have depression (or at least I did.) When depressed I could never focus on anything except how sad I was. That is why I kill the noise of nature with static and backwards thoughts. In the end I move forward in life.

Originally I didn't know what kind of sound I wanted to put in but once I decided on a white noise that kind of blocked out life along with my backwards thinking, I wanted something to transition well into a less depressed nature. That is why at the end where the woman moves forward, I use the sound of crickets. I thought that the sound of crickets was a nicer transition from static then the sound of birds or leaves crushing.

Amy Jenkins

Amy Jenkins
Ebb (4 min.)
http://www.amyjenkins.net/video%20pages/ebb.html (her personal website. I couldn’t find her video online.)

Combining an actual object with a projected object was an interesting combination that I thought was worth noting about. Not only was the projection of a woman but there was red water projected in the tub. Having the tub projected full was a really interesting contradiction. In a way the tub was full because of the projection but in reality you could still put something in the tub.

Again I could not find this video online. Having experienced the video online probably would not have done the video justice anyways, so I do not feel like I have missed out on an internet opportunity. From what others have described about the video, a bath tub sits empty. Eventually the tub fills with red water that is projected into the tub. A projected woman comes and sits in the tub and instead of bathing, the red water slowly recedes into the woman to mark a backwards menstruation.

The concept of time is the backwards menstruation. Women experience this pain every month but in this case, the woman is re-experiencing her menstrual pain a second time.

Mako Idemitsu

 

Mako Idemitsu

Hideo, It’s me, Mama (27 min.)

http://www.makoidemitsu.com/ (This is her website. I could not find her video online.)

My reasoning behind choosing this work stems from the interesting concept of a mother who will always see her child as young person in need of mothering. Idemitsu finds a way to show the fear and abandonment that a housewife experiences when her children grow up. It is interesting to see the views of a mother who is having a hard time grasping the fact that her children are no longer children. Instead of dealing with the present, the mother is caught in a never-ending obsession with the past. Her love for the children and because her married life had always been encircled around her children has entangled her in the past instead of moving forward. Basically, this idea of not being able to move forward and constantly dealing with a past is was intrigues me.

I was not able to find the video online but based from the description of the video on Idemistu’s website, the video is a mother who monitors her child constantly via video screen. The child is constantly on a monitor that the mother watches at all times, telling the child how to act and other thoughts of criticism.

In desperation to cling to a past, the housewife will constantly monitor her grown up children through a screen to make sure they are doing the right thing. Two different times are linked in one video. One time is of the child who has grown up and the other time is of the mother who only sees her grown up child as the young child she gave birth to only years ago.

Time Film: Death in Woods.

Time Film from diana hunter on Vimeo.

idea: A girl is walking through the woods thinking of suicide. Moments in time shows the woods empty showing she is irrelevant to that world. It's these moments that show a world of her already gone, nonexistant, already dead. When she stands in front of the camera there will be different dialouge each time.

Time #1 She asks if she belongs
Time #2 she isn't sure of the reality
Time #3 moments of happiness all eventually lead back to here.

Backwards thinking=backwards walking
forwards thinking=forward walking

the quick snaps of time is the anxiety that quickly leads to her death. Death scene has not been added yet. She will be seen dead right before you see her walking forwards in the last scene.

In the end she walks away because death isn't an option, she leaves the consideration behind once again.

I have already decided that the way she is dressed in this rough copy isn't appropriate. Instead her jeans will not be ripped in the second draft, she will wear a normal black shirt, and black shoes. Unless the shoes are not distracting enough.

I think the video doesn't have enough light so it looks a little grainy.

There is no audio yet so don't worry, you're not missing anything.

I'm not sure of what audio to use between dialogue. What audio do you think of when time goes backwards? Do those shoes distract you? Thoughts?

Storyboard

StoryBoard




Just like the video Man With A Movie Camera, I took random shots and strung them together into a video; however, I took all my shots in the woods near my house. I have an ending in mind and the basic idea of girl walking, nothing, suddenly standing, nothing, walking to eventually dead. I cut up a lot of shots and made more interesting moments for the video instead of going with what was basically on my storyboard. (the story board posted is based off the idea I got after cutting up all my shots.)

Basically, this girl (me) will be walking through the woods. There will be two woods areas shot of the girl walking away from the camera on the path and walking to the camera on the path. Randomly there will be shots of the woods with no one on the path. There will also be some random shots of the girl standing on the path. The end will be of her dead on the path. The idea is that this girl is walking through the woods but there are constant breaks in time where she is some where else, dead, standing, or doesn't exist.

I wanted to make a disjointed sound for the video instead of using the sound of the woods. Is there a good way of making disjointed sound?

Audio

Influenced by my own fear of the dark, you will be taken from a state of peace to a moment of creepiness. Are burglars trying to break in? Maybe someone forgot their keys? Either way, they won't be around for long because they never get in.

Ideas of what to do for more creepiness? No speaking noises please. I want it to be like a nightmare where no one has the ability to talk.

Should I make it more calming at the beginning?

What noises make you terrified?

Video Final Version

In this final version, the images are blurry to remind the viewer that the scene is a memory. My memory hasn't been clear for years and trying to remember something from childhood is as blurry as this video. Sometimes my memory is even worse. Since this is a child memory, I wanted the images to also appear soft and comforting. There is a version of the video where the blur is around the edge; however, I preferred this version more.

time video final from diana hunter on Vimeo.

tmpIII time video

This video is about my childhood and my guinea pig. Every Saturday morning I would put her on the floor and watch her run around happily. Sometimes while she was on the floor my dog would eat her poop (in this case, coffee beans.) What I'm trying to do is revisit my childhood by using stuffed animals that I had when I was little. The floor that the guinea pig runs on is my baby blanket.

In the future I would like to add audio of me explaining what is going on in an innocent voice. It's hard to explain the audio that I have in mind because it will involve layering certain sounds at certain moments.
my only question is: can you tell that is a guinea pig toy and a dog toy? I think with audio you'll understand a little more. Also, I tried using a real guinea pig but the moment she got on the floor she opened the door and did the dinosaur. (she ran for it)

tmpIII time v.1 from diana hunter on Vimeo.