FINAL WORK - At a Glance
My final work is a digital image inspired by the previous assessment work Apples. Like its inspiration, At a Glance is based on ‘vagueness’.
While I had no idea on what to do, I knew I had originally wanted to stick with the video format of the previous experiment, thus many of my experiments involved filming random scenes and locations which were later used in my final work. All my experiments explored the idea of ‘the lack of’ in regards to vagueness. For my first experiment, I explored the idea of randomness in regards to the unknown – that is, stringing bunch of words and images together that might not make any sense. My second experiment was based on a search for the unknown and how each way of recording had its effect on the work. The third/fourth experiment was sort of extension of the previous, instead of whole films; only small snippets were used to create the sense of the unknown. My fifth experiment occurred after a phone glitch, in which the screen was rendered unusable—this is what inspired my final work.
The work itself features every twelfth frame from previous works from the last assessment and from a video in each experiment. To do this, I used Photoshop to import each video and convert every twelfth frame into a layer. In each layer, I resized the frame to fit a small vertical space. The vertical lines create a very ‘glitchy’ vague look reminiscent of old TV green static screens. The result is a bar-code-esque picture that shows off the process of the work. The image was then transferred to my phone to create my own ‘screen of death’.
At a Glance is not just a picture; it encapsulates my entire process into one image but at the same time, shows multiple videos in their entirety. My work is still a video but in still form.