Casual & Creative

Ellie Phan's Creative Communication Visual Blog

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REFLECTION

Making this video has been a really good experience. We got a lot of creative freedom with this project, which at first was a bit daunting since there was so many directions I could of taken. But in the end it gave me the opportunity to explore different concepts with very little boundaries.

I've learnt so many different techniques that I've even incorporated into my assignments for other units. But the main thing I learnt from this was to not plan everything out in the beginning but to try out many different things and explore new ideas.

If I could improve anything about my video it would be the video quality. I should of taken advantage of the wide variety of resources available to me like the video cameras or the projector in the cave.

Overall I'm really happy with the outcome of my video. It's something that reflects my personal style and pushed me to my creative limits.

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Changes Made to Video

I decided to get rid of all of the parts of my video that were sourced from other texts including the first clip that was originally from a MSMR music video and the still images sourced from google. I replaced them with my own clips as I found that they made the audience engage better to my video than the alternative clips that made them lose interest. It also made my video flow better as the subject matter was made more clear.

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The process of capturing then editing each individual clip of my video was definitely a long one. It involved the capturing, cropping, lighting adjustment, colour adjustment, resizing and time altering of each clip. I ended up with so many premiere pro files that I feel like a horder.

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Today I cling wrapped my camera to get this shot. Totally unladylike but really fun :))

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In a blink

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Pandora’s box

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Go See Warhol’s Screen Tests in Times Square

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The music I used for my project was an altered version of M.I.A.'s Paper Planes. I took sections of the song and changed the pitch and tempo of it to sort of create a edgy and disjointed feeling, which went really well with the glitchiness of my video.

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Playing with glitching and datamosing

Initially I was terrified of the process of datamoshing and glitching on my own. I knew I wanted to incorporate it into my video because the effects were aestetically pleasing but I had no idea where to start. So I went through countless youtube tutorials until I found one that was actually up to date and didn't require for me to download millions of different programs onto my already slow computer. I used the Avidemux program to take out a couple of I frames of my video to achieve an effect that I was really pleased with.

One problem I had was that some of the scenes in my video were lost in the datamoshing and the only scenes that were visible were the ones that included motion. To fix this I made sure not to take out the I frames of the transition of the scenes that didn't include much movement in it.

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Playing around with the datamoshing technique using the Advidemux program. It also altered the audio which was super interesting.

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Turning the camera onto myself is not my favourite thing to do. I'd much rather be behind the camera then in front of it. Therefore I was definitely critical in terms of what footage I used because I was the one being depicted.

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Over the last 2 weeks I've been recording short clips that involved me consuming certain foods and beverages, following my theme of consumer culture and bad habits. Initially I thought the shadows in the background and inconsistent lighting was a problem but then I decided not to change them because the imperfections make my video more interesting.

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I wanted to add some still images to the start of my video so with the technique of archiving in mind, I typed in the word consumer culture into google to gather some cool pictures.

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Techniques Used in Video

1. Glitch- The video begins with a vintage Coca-Cola ad that I've glitched using Adobe Premiere Pro.   

2. Archive- A collection of images under the google search "consumer culture" are depicted, which I think nicely contrasts against the moving images.

3. Selfie- The rest of the video consists of short clips of myself consuming certain foods and beverages, which depict my own interpretation of "consumer culture".

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This is one of the intros I made for my video. I took a vintage coke ad and used a datamoshing program to glitch the ending.

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Lol Cats & Dogmas - Week 11

Viral images and video Lolcat- An image combining a photograph of a cat with text intended to contribute humour. The text is often idiosyncratic and grammatically incorrect.

Doge - slang term for dog that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus and internal monologue captions on tumblr. Use comic sans fonts. Viral examples- Scarlett Johansson Falling Slugs for guitars Tony Abbot on the phone Techno viking

Contagion happens because of participatory culture. Can use things such as click drag click to rework gifs ect

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I love the quick movement of images in this music video by The Jungle Giants. It gives the video a sense of excitement and fun, which I want to incorporate into my own piece.