Final Project {ponderings+inspirations}

inspired by:

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The two examples above show a story that plays with time in the sense that it is broken up frame by frame confusing the eyes, but basically is a short video that follows some sort of order.
The next video messes with the time format of the story. Like the previous videos, the subject is creative and transformative stop motion. Unlike the above, the cuts jump around and don't always make logical sense.

 (i.e. cutting the butter; one slice with the knife and we suddenly have 5 pieces.)

Also this is cute and funny to use house hold objects and do a voice over:

Proposal

Inspiration~~~

Labyrinth. looks like a brain- the human brain is a labyrinth.

I was thinking of using video as an orifice for my explanation of a labyrinth. I want to have someone chewing gum, blowing a bubble, and having it pop, but have the sound be off-track.
   At first, this will seem just like the video is lagging, but then the person in the video will react to the sound effects, acting confused and disoriented, trying to blow their bubble again and again with further sound distortions.
 I plan on doing this layout of video/sound with a couple different scenarios, then for the final presentation having it be a room full of theses videos, with the sound all going off at once, like each video is reacting another. Overall effect very confusing and stimulating. Maybe I will use a bunch of televisions, or just have all of the videos projected on the walls.



I found some sound clips that I can layer together to create the audio effects that I want to achieve.
 http://www.soundsnap.com/man_chewing_bubble_gum_sloppily_and_breathily_and_casually
http://www.soundsnap.com/man_chewing_bubble_gum_sloppily_with_mouth_open
http://soundbible.com/1982-Gum-Bubble-Pop.html


I hope to hone my skills at video filming and editing that I have learned with our last project, and create something that fully gets my point across as well as encompassing the requirements of the course and pulling in final presentation as much as thoughtfulness in the project itself.

M0∑EN†0~~~~

me·men·to

 noun \mə-ˈmen-(ˌ)tō, ÷mō-\

: something that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or thing

FILM:

Two different sequences, one in black and white and one in color,  shown in reverse order. The characters get reveled to you slowly- you are kept on the same confused track 

LABYRINTH ~~

LABYRINTH

Excerpt from Borges' The Circular Ruins:

"At first, his dreams were chaotic; a little 
later, they became dialectical. The foreigner 
dreamed that he was in the center of a circular 
amphitheater, which was somehow the ruined 
temple; clouds of taciturn students completely 
filled the terraces of seats. The faces of those 
farthest away hung at many centuries' distance 
and at a cosmic height, yet they were absolutely 
clear. The man lectured on anatomy, cosmography, magic; the faces listened 
earnestly, intently, and attempted to respond 
with understanding—as though they sensed the 
importance of that education that would 
redeem one of them from his state of hollow 
appearance and insert him into the real world. 
The man, both in sleep and when awake, 
pondered his phantasms' answers; he did not 
allow himself to be taken in by impostors, and 
he sensed in certain perplexities a growing 
intelligence. He was seeking a soul worthy of 
taking its place in the universe. "


I think there's an interesting path here between the idea of one's life on earth, one's life inside his own dreams, and one's life in it's full prospect- what we will to become.



He dreamed of life. He dreamed up life. 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_fish


"To speak is to commit tautologies."

These ideas of linear and non linear time- like also the stories we read, kept going in circles. A labyrinth is some place 'moment' where you find yourself in circles. Tripping on Mushrooms is very much like this. I always find my mind/situation going in circles. Life is a circle. I find circles to be heavily meaningful in life and have been shown again through schooling / growth, personally.

Here is a cool exhibition that was at MoMA a couple of years ago:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/5