Abstraction Blog Post
At first I was honestly a little weirded out by some of the art clips shown, but I really began to realize they are meant to be outside the box and against the norms of filmmaking which I found pretty interesting. I really like how many of these art clips shoot in unique angles, or sometimes “the perspective of a bug” as Pipilotti Rist said. It allows for the clip to achieve a visual that the human eye normally doesn’t see. Oftentimes these kinds of clips are achieved with illusions, such as in the Habitat video. The illusions are often mixed with colorful editing such as in the clip “Black Reflection” which creates really beautiful and interesting visuals. I also noticed many of the art clips shown really have no direct structure. This allows for people to interpret the art clips in their own way. These art clips are almost like the opposite of Exercise 2, where we were trying to create something that looks continuous and “normal”.
Interpretations of these art clips are also guided by the sound of them, such as the noises given in the clip “And” which seemed to flow well with the visuals being portrayed and even added a humorous effect for me personally. These clips have given me some ideas for Exercise 3, such as shooting things the human eye could easily recognize from afar, but not from a closeup angle. For example, shooting a closeup of the inside of my computer running with LED lights in the background. From afar it looks like a cool light up computer, but from a closeup shot with outside context eliminated it looks like some cool unrecognizable machine. Also apologies this is a day late, had to finish up a lot of work for Spring break, and weirdly Moodle was down for me for a while so it was hard to view the Abstraction PDF.
(With Moodle down that day, no points are taken off for anyone's late posts.) Nice to hear your honest reactions to these difficult and abstract pieces. I think you're doing a great job of grabbing onto a few things that stand out and make sense to you, then running with them. You're right that this assignment is in some ways opposite of the continuity of Exercise 2—rather it is relying so much more on juxtaposition and symbolism of images, and the feelings that they evoke when they collide with each other. Your initial idea is a strong start, and there are lots of way that you might organize and process juxtaposing images (zoomed in versus zoomed out), possibly showing them on screen at the same time, or slowly zooming/transitioning between them to reveal their similarities and differences—recognizable, everyday things shot for their ability to be formally abstract, non-representational, or unrecognizable. Also, I agree that Mack's work is pretty hilarious in the way that the sound connects with the image—such satisfying visual jokes.
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