For my final project, I would like to develop a celebration/parade/festival of bicycle riding. The event would take place in and around Overton Park, and would include an art-bike parade, bike safety game show (projected live feed?), art activities for all ages, live music, and possibly a scavenger hunt and other bike related activities.
My hope is that the event will make people excited about riding bikes, as well as educating about bicycle (and driver) safety.
I know this is a big project. Preparation for the event will include:
-Planning the date and time with parks department
-Promotion
---Posters
---Press release to be sent out to radio stations, newspapers, businesses, and organizations
---Bicycle and driver safety zines to be distributed at art events, bike shops, record stores, other businesses
---Maybe turn my van into a mobile gallery for Broad Ave art walk on April 13, featuring bike-related art, hand out fliers, etc
-Volunteer recruitment
-Live music people
-Games/art activities planning
-Equipment round-up
Finally, the documentation of the event will be very important. I want to film the parade, interview people about what they love about bikes, what would make this a more bike-friendly city, etc.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Inspiration over break
Harry Belafonte's Sing Your Song
Soap Factory experimental stuff:
-Gun shaped projector that only worked by heartbeat
-Kinnect game about urban planning
Walker:
-Video of inside of a subway
-Frank Gaard
House of Balls
Soap Factory experimental stuff:
-Gun shaped projector that only worked by heartbeat
-Kinnect game about urban planning
Walker:
-Video of inside of a subway
-Frank Gaard
House of Balls
Monday, March 19, 2012
three ideas:
1. I was thinking a lot about bikes.
How can Memphis become a more biker-friendly city?
Awareness.
So I filmed from the perspective of a biker biking in a bike-friendly city.
It would be projected outside in a public place on a very large screen in front of a slew of stationary bikes. Ideally, the man-power coming out of the stationary bikes would power the projection, but even if not, the viewers would ride the bikes and watch the film.
Here's a link about turning an exercise bike into a power generator:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-an-exercise-bike-into-an-energy-bike/
2. Project from car onto highway walls or median bikers, animals running, people running.
3. What's up with Memphis' public transit system??? a million poor people AND a million cars? how does that make sense? Even Minneapolis has more reliable, more frequent, easier to use, and more transferable buses and trains. WTFFFF!!! So I want to make something public for MATA. Maybe project from the top of the North End terminal videos of easy/made up bus-routes, no more waiting, transfers. It should be interactive because I am not personally involved in the transit system of Memphis but I have seen the way it affects people negatively. I will ask people waiting in the heat what they would change about MATA if they could. Get people dreaming.
1. I was thinking a lot about bikes.
How can Memphis become a more biker-friendly city?
Awareness.
So I filmed from the perspective of a biker biking in a bike-friendly city.
It would be projected outside in a public place on a very large screen in front of a slew of stationary bikes. Ideally, the man-power coming out of the stationary bikes would power the projection, but even if not, the viewers would ride the bikes and watch the film.
Here's a link about turning an exercise bike into a power generator:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-an-exercise-bike-into-an-energy-bike/
2. Project from car onto highway walls or median bikers, animals running, people running.
3. What's up with Memphis' public transit system??? a million poor people AND a million cars? how does that make sense? Even Minneapolis has more reliable, more frequent, easier to use, and more transferable buses and trains. WTFFFF!!! So I want to make something public for MATA. Maybe project from the top of the North End terminal videos of easy/made up bus-routes, no more waiting, transfers. It should be interactive because I am not personally involved in the transit system of Memphis but I have seen the way it affects people negatively. I will ask people waiting in the heat what they would change about MATA if they could. Get people dreaming.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Self-critique of frame-by-frame project
The title of my frame-by-frame project is Sounds that Prove that I'm Alive. The main idea that I started with was attempting to capture and record the real, everyday sounds that my body makes in order to prove my existence. This is something that I often think about, even since I was a child. Every now and then, I experience waves of existential crises- strong feelings that everything in my life is actually just a figment of my thoughts, in my head alone. Since I was a child, I have had the feeling that although the universe is huge, even infinite, I am only interpreting it through my senses. The piece, Sounds that Prove that I'm Alive, is about self-exploration, confusion, coming into one's being, and experiencing the uncanny. It's meant to question what is real and what exists only in the mind. Memory, emotion, sound, sight, feeling, etc.
I used a cut-paper collage for the visual aspect of the piece. It was shot one-frame-at-a-time. I recorded 4 different audio tracks of the "sounds that prove that I'm alive" and overlapped them to create the voice-over. Parts of it line up to what the animated character is doing, and parts of it don't. The reason I did this was to blur the line between what is real about the piece and what is constructed. The figure is obviously constructed yet exhibits human characterstics. The sounds might seem more real, but the outcome is a messy audio collage of everyday human noises. I want there to be friction between the real and the fake in order for the audience to question their own reality.
Initially, I want the audience to be drawn in by the aesthetics of the animation and overlapping sounds. I want them to wonder if the sounds are coming from the girl herself, from her thoughts, from an unseen character, or from themselves. I want them to be caught between what is real about the film and what is constructed. I want the audience to question the reality of the project, and ultimately question their own reality.
The main theme of the piece: It is a self-reflection upon existential crises that I've been experiencing since I was young.
Problem areas: I had some difficulty with technology. I accidentally imported the footage as "large" instead of "full size" into iMovie. I didn't catch this until I was done editing and ready to export. I plan on re-doing the whole thing in HD so that the quality of the video won't affect the content. I want the cut paper to be crispy clear.
In a post below, I included potential film festivals that my piece my fit into. As far as how it would be exhibited, I was thinking that maybe it could be rear-projected onto what looks like a mirror with a performance aspect: I would be sitting in front of that "mirror" doing the same things as the animation. Another idea is that a live-action video would be played across the room from it.
I used a cut-paper collage for the visual aspect of the piece. It was shot one-frame-at-a-time. I recorded 4 different audio tracks of the "sounds that prove that I'm alive" and overlapped them to create the voice-over. Parts of it line up to what the animated character is doing, and parts of it don't. The reason I did this was to blur the line between what is real about the piece and what is constructed. The figure is obviously constructed yet exhibits human characterstics. The sounds might seem more real, but the outcome is a messy audio collage of everyday human noises. I want there to be friction between the real and the fake in order for the audience to question their own reality.
Initially, I want the audience to be drawn in by the aesthetics of the animation and overlapping sounds. I want them to wonder if the sounds are coming from the girl herself, from her thoughts, from an unseen character, or from themselves. I want them to be caught between what is real about the film and what is constructed. I want the audience to question the reality of the project, and ultimately question their own reality.
The main theme of the piece: It is a self-reflection upon existential crises that I've been experiencing since I was young.
Problem areas: I had some difficulty with technology. I accidentally imported the footage as "large" instead of "full size" into iMovie. I didn't catch this until I was done editing and ready to export. I plan on re-doing the whole thing in HD so that the quality of the video won't affect the content. I want the cut paper to be crispy clear.
In a post below, I included potential film festivals that my piece my fit into. As far as how it would be exhibited, I was thinking that maybe it could be rear-projected onto what looks like a mirror with a performance aspect: I would be sitting in front of that "mirror" doing the same things as the animation. Another idea is that a live-action video would be played across the room from it.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Film fest ideas
Backyard Film and Music Festival:
Backyard Film and Music Fest seeks to create a welcoming space for the community; champions the immediacy of live music and of experiencing film in a communal setting; favors the independent artist; provides an outlet for new and original talent, as well as preserving unique voices of the past; believes the festival experience need not be predictable; and celebrates the ideal spirit of backyards everywhere.
NextFrame International Student Film and Video
DIY Film Festival
Bluestocking Film Series
Films made by/about women being represented in positive ways
WAMMFest
AniMazing Spotlight animation shorts festival
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