Jun 20, 2017
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developing ideas.
okay so, coming up with an experimental project. the idea is to make people feel. what, then is the most direct way of doing that? using emotions.
there are then options. do you choose a primal emotion? a base emotion? a higher emotion?
there are certainly a lot of emotions. a lot that can be worked with, but for now, I'm looking for something thats simple but powerful. something that is needed right now, amidst the chaos humanity is laying down.
how about some peace? now peace isn't an emotion but serenity is. and a little serenity in the world can't be a bad thing.
so from that, theres a simple act of deciding what situations cause this.
a simple, but effective one, seems to be sitting out in nature, with the sounds associated, like rustling leaves, birdsong. An oasis from the normal sounds of life, like cars.
taking this all into consideration, then an individual instillation wouldn't make sense. a general internet release would be helpful. proliferation through social media then, makes sense. to bring a little bit of serenity too peoples days.
and from a quick survey, it seems like it could be a well received idea.
for a lot of the ideas I've come up with, it won't take very long to film, and edit. its a question of picking the most ‘serene’ idea, and setting the situation up.
Experimental Video: ‘Imagine’ live in Ibiza town, August 2016. I wanted to portray a feeling of unity among people from all over the world - there were multiple nationalities in that crowd, some who didn’t speak English, some who did - regardless, everyone in the crowd around me joined in song, forgot about their worries and the world outside of that town for that moment in time. With all of the ‘chaos’ going on in the UK and all over the world right now, I wanted to create something surrounding unity and togetherness - and, I just so happened to have some video footage that would work. What I would change in future: - Landscape video - Naturally I can’t go back and change things, the performance was spontaneous, I didn’t know it was going to happen, and it was also just under a year ago. Trying to recreate it for the sake of gathering landscape video footage rather than portrait would not be as organic. * I recorded in portrait to be able to catch both the crowd and the fireworks in one shot, or at least to attempt to. - Clearer Audio - Again, I can’t recreate this. But, there are points where the audio is so quiet that the song can no longer be heard, perhaps because not everyone knew the lyrics and as it was spontaneous not everyone was expected to know either.
Experimental videos
Experimental videos. big mood for. experimental videos are just that, experiments. They’re art. They’re thoughtful. They’re through provoking.
Experimental videos break from codes and conventions, to bring something that doesn't stick to the normal patter of things. It has been the bearer of some brilliant things, some not so amazing, and others that just defy understanding
par example: this video of someone making a shirt design. (T-SHIRT by Jamie Swarbrick) another example: Colour Bandits by PJ Liguori, which consists of a man standing in a void of colour, devoid of colour, become vibrant.
in the world of video media, there are a lot of experimenters. the earliest being those such as the Lumieres Brothers, and George Melies. Those who pioneered the craft of video/film making. they were the ones that experimented to give rise to the the codes and conventions for all manor of genres, and types. nowadays, the practitioners are all about breaking rules. a major ‘rule break’ is one of the narrative/non narrative. experimental videos can have a story. they can have a start middle and end, and the experiment is how you get from point a to point b a non narrative video experiment on the other hand, does t have the point a to point b to include, so theres a lot more freedom to do with as you please. example?
a difference between the pioneers of the past and present is technology, whereas previously, a lot of experimenting was done by more affluent people, and people already in the world of film, the fact technology has come along, means many more people have access to the art form. theres are arguments to be made, in regards to experimental video now and in history, as: historically, ‘what can we show’ whereas now? ‘what can we do?’
experimental videos are being used more and more often as part of art instillations and exhibits, (I've heard. I've never been to see one, myself, and i can't find any digital replication online to support the fact)