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Design work for my first year at Victoria University. Let's open our eyes.Let's find art in the world around us.

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//Revised Proposal

For this last project, I want to explore a place in more than one moment in time. Using timelapse techniques, I would approach my result with digital merging. In this process, I want to find patterns in the objects moving in these spaces. 

The overall idea is that I will create an image out of what has been but never truly was. 

//Conclusion

This was an interesting project, which gave me a different perspective on looking at the way people interact with spaces, and finding types of similarities and patterns in the images was a fun way to approach this. It also got me thinking about the fact that we see people everyday that we will never see again in our lifetime.

Which reminds me of a quote:

“...we are all one consiousness experiencing itself subjectively...life is only a dream within the imagination of ourselves”

-Bill Hicks

If I were to do it again I would play around with the image editing a lot more now that I have had practice with the technique.

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These are the images I have created so far with my time-lapse merging. If I have enough time, I want to take photos similar to Pelle Cass to give a different tone to my series.

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Contact sheets from my time-lapse experiment last night. I have been editing to try a similar effect to Alexey Titarenko, which is similar to star trail photography where you can use the image stack script in photoshop, but I've found using masks and editing manually creates a more natural effect.

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New inspiration for this project has lead me to Pelle Cass and Alexey Titarenko. Both of these artists use time-lapse style photography to make one image. I love the idea of freezing a moment in time and in both of these examples the image consists of many frozen moments in the same place. My -ology will be psychology, and showing ways that people move in space. 

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I started this project out with looking in the 3D light extrusion and by using the example from my artist precedent and other videos photographers had made, I experimented with light painting. I found that for the light extrusion to work well, the model that was created had to be elaborate to get the look I was going for (like with the body cross section). I decided to go for a different approach to this project after testing.

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Images taken at 3:58pm every day, mundane/stressed media design student

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This is an amazing work by Croix Gagnon, the dissected cross-section photos of a convicted murderer made into a video and drawn out with light.

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The best of my weekly task - star gazing. I found it best to face the camera directly up from my flat's balcony, as we have a view of the city which creates a lot of light pollution.

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Inspiration for this project came from Len Lye's work where he used colours and shapes with music. I like the way he abstracted his work, showing a feeling of the music in the visuals created.

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My final video exploring destruction through digital and physical manipulation. I am really pleased with what this project has made me created. I would have never tried out any of this process if it weren't for the exploration throughout this project. I named my final “pinhole” as I used a circle as the viewing point of the video. I also used an invert and black and white filter in after effects to achieve the end result. I had also never explored after effects before this project, and now I know a lot about it.If I could do the project again, I would take more photos and earlier as this would have given me time to further explore the video side of it. I would have like to try a stereo view for the video, with two different montages going at once.Overall I really enjoyed this project, it pushed me out of my comfort zone and in turn made me think more creatively.

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The other sequence that I made, both of which I created in After Effects

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This was the first sequence used in the projection for filming, which I then made my own filters over the projector.

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This is the audio "glitch" that I created with samples of glitchy loops and creepy ambient sound from freesound.org. I wanted the track to be disjointed to emphasise the way that the projector reacted to the filming of it, and to also create cues for cuts and effects in the video editing stage.

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My second shoot, using slide dilm this time. I was focussing on destruction, as I found a really old beaten up and rusted truck at my dad's work. The truck had some really interesting materials. My film also had lots of light leaks which emphasised my destruction theme.

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This is my first shoot for project 2, my goal was to test out the camera, using double exposures and just getting a feel for taking photos in a new way.  My project has evolved from a few different stages, where in the beginning I wanted to show music through photographs, I then changed to taking landscape photographs with the intention of showing pollution through the way I would manipulate physically. After more of a brainstorm I am going to shoot a video with projections of the images being manipulated digitally... More to come soon!

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This is where I took my final images.

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My final images. //Day and Night// I found this process to be a fun challenge, with the weather being really unpredictable and changing as I was trying to take a continuous series, the colours came out slightly different even with using the same exposure for each photo. The night photography was easier for the effect of blending as the lighting and colours didn’t change much.If I could do the project again, I would spend more time finding different places to photograph to see which come out most interesting as a panorama and mini-world.