Bromance Final Draft

Bromance Draft 2

Craft: The draft of this project was created using a Canon DSLR for the footage, Adobe Premiere to compose the video, and Garage Band to compose the music. Adobe Premiere allowed me to edit the footage and time lapse the video.
Concept: The theme of the project was to make a short film featuring someone traveling, someone waiting, and one person having a package for another. I decided to intertwine this with the concept of "bromance" to delve into the lives of two friends who have ventured different paths after graduating college.
Composition: I used feedback from the previous critique to strengthen the video. One piece of advice was to add another flashback to reinforce the time the two spent together during college. Music was also a big change, in which I focused on conveying mood in the three key points of the film. For example, the music in the beginning was composed to communicate the character's loneliness as he played the game alone, wishing for his friend.

Bromance- Draft 1

Craft: The draft of this project was created using a Canon DSLR for the footage, Adobe Premiere to compose the video, and Garage Band to compose the music. Adobe Premiere allowed me to edit the footage and time lapse the video.
Concept: The theme of the project was to make a short film featuring someone traveling, someone waiting, and one person having a package for another. I decided to intertwine this with the concept of "bromance" to delve into the lives of two friends who have ventured different paths after graduating college.
Composition: Because I developed a script first, I was able to compose the events of the story in a logical sense. I experimented a lot with capturing actions from different angles to

VAC Performance

Craft: This project was made using two major programs. Adobe Premiere was used to compile both the video and audio while Garage Band was used to edit the music.
Concept: The object of the assignment was to compile the shots from the performance into one video along with the audio we edited last week.
Composition: I did not necessarily want to choose the exact scene where the audio occurred I chose to gather different clips to communicate some sort of progression.

Week 12: Audio Exploration

Craft: This project was edited using Garage Band on the Mac. Various tools enabled me to play with different ways to alter the sound of the music track.

Composition:One tool that I used was reverb which made the sound sound as if it filled space. Another tool was tremolo which was an effect that made the instrumentation sound shaky. I also played with vocal alterations. The monster one that I used made the voices deeper, muddying what was being said. I believe that making the words harder to understand turned the focus to the tones and sounds produced by the voices. I also played with echoes which were different from reverb in that each note was repeated without a sense of atmosphere.

Special Edition Post: Edyta Stepien Installation

This exhibition consisted of large-scale video projections on the walls of SXU's Art Gallery. When I first stepped in, there was a striking impact as if I had been transported to an entirely different environment, Stepien opened her presentation  by allowing the viewers to ask her questions about her piece. The first topic of concern was how the piece was made. She stated that the video clips were taken by pointing a micro-lens camera at a fish tank filled with water, with natural substances such as plants and sand while also including man-made objects such as wire, glitter, and bits of paper. To create a tumultuous atmosphere in this small setting, she created ripples in the water with a blow dryer and moving the water physically to created a disturbance into the items in the tank. The sound was also a component in this multimedia exhibit. Stepien stated that the sounds came from field recordings of pitches from hurricanes and storms.

Another topic was what she wanted to communicate with this piece. Stepien's inspiration for this piece came from the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. Stepien stated that she wanted to explore the relationship between the natural and mechanical by making this simulation of a violent storm that transported us as the viewers to the center of the chaos. She explored how even natural objects have man-made components.I believe that this was successful in the way the entire gallery space was transformed to envelop the viewer in constant motion and dimness. 

This exhibition is different from any other exhibition I have attended in that it made me pay attention to both space and sound. I enjoyed how more than one sense was required to interpret  what was happening in the composition. Even though I knew I was inside of a building, the walls no longer felt like walls because of the depth and scale of the projection. While my eyes were visually interested, my ears were audibly interested in the ominous sounds of wind whistling and high pitched, resonating bells that provoked a certain emptiness or muffled sound as if I really was underwater, immersed in chaos.

Week 6:Impossible Fiction, One Instrument

Craft: The drawing was made on an iPAD app called Procreate. I used a variety of tools to illustrate my fictional character, mainly a chalk pencil mark which provided the furry texture I desired. The music was made using Garage Band.
Concept: The concept of this project was to create a piece of art and music using a specific set of rules. For the drawing, the rules were to not draw people, make a total of 5 drawings or make a drawing within the theme "Impossible Fiction". I chose the later theme, making a creature that is built of a rabbit, ram, and leopard. The musical piece required that we use only one instrument or use recordings/narration. I chose to make my piece of music with one instrument: the piano.
Composition: For the drawing, I thought mainly about how much of each animal had to be represented in a way that the viewer could identify each animal. I wanted the rabbit to be the most visible so that's why it is the head of the creature. The ram is most noted for its horns so I decided to replace the rabbit's ears with the horn. Since I didn't want to make the body primarily a ram's body, I decided to give it a snow leopard's body based on the color scheme I had started to establish of grays, black, and white. I used a separate layer to make a background that I thought gave a sort of mystical presence in the vibrant colors and light effects. Concerning the music, I only  used one instrument within the app's piano category, Those instruments were the arcade synth and the grid bass which gave an 8-bit video game quality. I wanted to play around with different melodies that could act as a drum's baseline although I couldn't use drums and differing melodies with low pitches and high pitches. I focused a lot on contrasting sounds although they were made by the same instrument.