Mar 19, 2015
Whelpness!
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Whelpness!
Creating my video
Datamoshing in my video: The datamoshing implemented I feel really made the video as it initially solely represented poorly produced news broadcasting. I did however end up changing the audio speed, and had cuts in each clip with little to no transition to add to the poorly produced effect. To datamosh I first had to trim the videos I downloaded from YouTube as they were 10-20 minutes long each. I ended up with 15 or so small clips from those three initial videos. I then datamoshed each video in Avidumux, which was actually very easy compared to the first time I did so in the Datamoshshop class. After having messed up those videos I took them to VLC and screen recorded them using QuickTime. It all ran very smoothly.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014: I initially wanted to use iMovie as I had never used Premiere before but after speaking to my tutors, both insisted that Premiere was the much superior program. I got the hang of it pretty quickly after Karen gave me a quick tutorial. I had a few saving issues, and even now after I've finished I'm worried about it not opening on the computers in class but overall the program served its purpose very well.
My video is finished and up on YouTube.
I'm happy with the way it came together, however I'm a little worried about the ending of the video. Although I want to keep the reasoning behind the video open to interpretation, I hope my intended meaning and message translate. I included a short description just in case, and kept it quite brief in hopes that consumers already understand the positioning of this short video. I'm hoping the question at the end really ties the video together, making the intended meaning quite clear.
I used this YouTube video as a tutorial to export my video properly. I don't have much experience creating short videos, and it's my first time using Premiere so this helped a lot! I exported it as a H264, setting the preset to YouTube HD 1080p 23.976. I then changed the maximum bitrate (mbps) to 25, and the target bitrate (mbps) to 15. Lastly, I selected 'use maximum render quality' and proceeded to export it.
I'm currently sifting through a bunch of videos I pulled from YouTube.
I'm trying to think of a way I can focus on how mainstream media manipulate consumers to see the world a particular way. I've wanted to focus on delivering a sequence of very poorly produced clips relating to crisis' in parts of the world that don't receive as much coverage as the rest, and then juxtaposition those clips with bright, well produced clips of reports that in comparison to the conflicts in Gaza/Palestine are not news worthy at all.
I will datamosh the clips I've chosen to represent the parts of the world with lesser coverage, as I'd like the video to explore balance (or lack of) when comparing those clips with the well produced. The video will explore how the well produced clips shift the focus off of the poorly produced, as the poorly produced are more difficult to deconstruct, and if understood, are much harder to digest.
I feel like there's a good chance my video will be received the way I intend as nowadays people are much more cynical and aware of how the media is controlling and manipulative.
"Our entire understanding of the world and current affairs is filtered through the mass media, interpreted by journalists and so-called experts. Their views become our views simply because we are not offered any alternatives" (Fraser and Beeston)
Researching for my video I found a really interesting piece entitled The Brotherhood and the manipulation of society. Carrying on from my GIF, I want my video to question mainstream media - does production manipulate our views on world affairs? The article I found walks us through manipulation in society as a whole.
"The vast majority of the world's population are merely sheep happily following the herd. Whatever is broadcast in the media as being desirable to the masses suddenly and miraculously becomes desired by the masses" (Fraser and Beeston)
"forbidden knowledge" - the URL feels so relevant to my video topic of choice.
Week 10: Dirty Media
The focus in this weeks seminar was Dirty Media. We explored the potential of glitches and errors in art, focusing on Glitch art and Datamoshing. Datamoshing is the act of intentionally compressing digital video resulting in what is known as Glitch art. Glitch art is defined as bugs or errors that corrupt digital data, creating a unforeseen effect.
In Class we looked at many examples of Glitch art and/or Datamoshing, including Kanye West’s 2012 music video and Alex Galloway’s Prepared Playstation.
Following the discussion we looked at how to Datamosh, participating in a Datamoshshop where we were shown to do so using a short clip in editing software Avidemux. Datamoshing is practiced using compressed videos containing different video algorithms. The algorithms are known as the I-frames, P-frames and the B-frames and are used for video compression. We were advised to remove the I-frames (also known as Key Frames) as they don’t require other video frames to decode and are the least compressible, allowing for Glitch art with the least likeliness of corrupting the video to the point where it cannot be redeemed.
DATAMOSHSHOP
My first time using Avidemux for datamoshing. I had quite a bit of trouble using this software and found it confusing at first.
After finally seeing the end result I am surprised because I wonder why anyone would even want to do this to their videos.