I really like the antique coloring and movement of the camera. The shaky abrupt movement, coloring, and lights for some reason reminds me of the movie The Skeleton Key. It kinda has a spooky feel which I really like. I like how the movie shakes and then stops. It really makes me focus and concentrate on what ever it freezes on, and at the same time I am trying to figure out the parts that are speeding up. With the repetition I get a sense that a specific event is going on in this video. The viewer can tell that it isn't just random non-related scenes put together. - Helen Kohnke
I liked the connectivity of this piece; the rusted color, the fast-paced camera movements, and the reoccurring shots helped develop an interesting abstract story. Like Helen pointed out, it's interesting to try and tell what the contents are of the different clips.
My only nit-picky thing is that I wish I could take a few seconds to absorb what was going on. The clips are all moving so quickly, and the camera is jostling around so much that for most of the film I feel like I'm being recklessly jerked around. Not to say that it's a bad thing, but I would just need a few seconds somewhere around the middle or at the end to gather myself before starting up again. While you kind of helped the viewer out by having clips occur and reoccur on multiple occasions, it would be nice for you to add a little something extra.
All in all, really great job, I really enjoyed this one!
There is an interesting urgency about this video, where we see or think we see what's going on but then it speeds up. The change of pace is refreshing and I get a definite montage-feel from it. The colors in the video are kept pretty consistently warm, which helps unify the footage despite it's sporadic editing.
This kind of reminds me of some horror movies with the obscure motions and quick movements building up suspense and uneasiness. It creates a level of anxiety that makes you wonder what will happen.
Something that I noticed at around about 1:48 was a sound artifact that I'm not sure you intended to be in your video.
I really like this video, and it reminds me of Black Swan or something...like a creepy person getting their hair ready for a performance and it has to be perfect. I specifically love the parts where we see the faces. It adds another dimension to the viewing experience (which i think partly contributes to the eerie feeling people are getting), because someone is looking back at us for a change. If it were me who had made this video, I might now try to build up the creepy atmosphere even more, and I think some well places sound effects (fragments of laughter, unrecognizable noises, etc) could be cool.
This video was very exciting; it made me think of a murder scene. It was very suspenseful and exciting. The fact that it was silent only added to the suspense. I also think the warm but muted color palette adds to the dramatic and eerie mood. Overall it is a very exciting video.
I love the movement of the camera, but my favorite part are the beautiful colors. The whole video reminds me of a dream sequence. The whole video has an eerie overtone which makes the video suspenseful and exciting. I also really liked your use of the person in the video. It helps it feel as though there is really a story behind the video. Awesome job! -Meredith Ashworth
Imagine if you left the sound in there that would have totally increased your "scary" factor. By scary I am referring to that heightened sense of anticipation before something jumps out at you(which is really cool). Still this defiantly delivers on the haunted house feeling, like in Supernatural when the two main characters encounter a freaky ghost child. It really reminded me of The Ring when that lady is brushing her hair from that video people die from. Anyways very cool.
Hi Justine! I thought I'd already responded to this video, but it seems that my response wasn't posted. Sorry for the delay! I find it interesting that many people seem to be responding to this piece as "scary", which I think says something about how footage like this gets used in popular movies. It seems that anytime the regular narrative flow of images is disrupted by an alternative editing/shooting style, it becomes disconcerting the way any abnormal experience might be the first time. This reading is in no way incorrect, but I guess I've seen enough that I read this more as a fleeting, ephemeral look at domesticity than as something "creepy". It feels very similar to the editing/shooting style of early avant-garde filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Robert Breer, to name just a few examples, and I think it deploys those strategies with a lot of success.
The tension between abstraction and representation here is part of its success: seeing what I assume is the back of someone's head, their hair out of focus, then fleeting lights of some sort, all cut in such a way as to seem like little scraps of memory and perception tied together, contrasted with the short moments of someone's face and smile. It's very ephemeral and delicate, in my mind. For a reference point, maybe take a look at Brakhage's "Window Water Baby Moving" (warning: there are some pretty graphic moments of a home birth, but it's quite beautiful).
The open question here is about the sound: there is a moment near the end where the silence is interrupted by a bit of static. It is so isolated as to feel like a mistake right now, but I think it could be tweaked to really be something powerful. The silence really draws attention to the visual, and sets up a certain expectation once we feel that the whole piece is going to be silent, then our expectation is interrupted by this bit of sound. If you were then to have a section where the audio was tightly knit with the image in some way, then this would change our whole perception of the piece.
I like the coloration, as other people have mentioned, and I think it gives it a kind of vintage feeling. (it resembles shooting in tungsten balanced light with daylight balanced film) It might be nice, if you add to this piece later, to have different sections delineated by the coloration. I will say that it feels very much in the territory of 60's and 70's experimental film, and I think it might be worth questioning how you can make a contemporary update on this style that does feel very connected to that period.
I really like the antique coloring and movement of the camera. The shaky abrupt movement, coloring, and lights for some reason reminds me of the movie The Skeleton Key. It kinda has a spooky feel which I really like. I like how the movie shakes and then stops. It really makes me focus and concentrate on what ever it freezes on, and at the same time I am trying to figure out the parts that are speeding up. With the repetition I get a sense that a specific event is going on in this video. The viewer can tell that it isn't just random non-related scenes put together.
ReplyDelete- Helen Kohnke
I liked the connectivity of this piece; the rusted color, the fast-paced camera movements, and the reoccurring shots helped develop an interesting abstract story. Like Helen pointed out, it's interesting to try and tell what the contents are of the different clips.
ReplyDeleteMy only nit-picky thing is that I wish I could take a few seconds to absorb what was going on. The clips are all moving so quickly, and the camera is jostling around so much that for most of the film I feel like I'm being recklessly jerked around. Not to say that it's a bad thing, but I would just need a few seconds somewhere around the middle or at the end to gather myself before starting up again. While you kind of helped the viewer out by having clips occur and reoccur on multiple occasions, it would be nice for you to add a little something extra.
All in all, really great job, I really enjoyed this one!
There is an interesting urgency about this video, where we see or think we see what's going on but then it speeds up. The change of pace is refreshing and I get a definite montage-feel from it. The colors in the video are kept pretty consistently warm, which helps unify the footage despite it's sporadic editing.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of reminds me of some horror movies with the obscure motions and quick movements building up suspense and uneasiness. It creates a level of anxiety that makes you wonder what will happen.
ReplyDeleteSomething that I noticed at around about 1:48 was a sound artifact that I'm not sure you intended to be in your video.
I really like this video, and it reminds me of Black Swan or something...like a creepy person getting their hair ready for a performance and it has to be perfect. I specifically love the parts where we see the faces. It adds another dimension to the viewing experience (which i think partly contributes to the eerie feeling people are getting), because someone is looking back at us for a change. If it were me who had made this video, I might now try to build up the creepy atmosphere even more, and I think some well places sound effects (fragments of laughter, unrecognizable noises, etc) could be cool.
ReplyDeleteThis video was very exciting; it made me think of a murder scene. It was very suspenseful and exciting. The fact that it was silent only added to the suspense. I also think the warm but muted color palette adds to the dramatic and eerie mood. Overall it is a very exciting video.
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ReplyDeleteI give up on ascii,, I liked that you used a person though.
ReplyDeleteI like it a lot. It's focused enough to give an idea, but yet, still far away so that the viewer has to ake the rest of the connection..
ReplyDeleteI didn't get any sound... Was there any to begin wiith?
I love the movement of the camera, but my favorite part are the beautiful colors. The whole video reminds me of a dream sequence. The whole video has an eerie overtone which makes the video suspenseful and exciting. I also really liked your use of the person in the video. It helps it feel as though there is really a story behind the video. Awesome job!
ReplyDelete-Meredith Ashworth
Imagine if you left the sound in there that would have totally increased your "scary" factor. By scary I am referring to that heightened sense of anticipation before something jumps out at you(which is really cool). Still this defiantly delivers on the haunted house feeling, like in Supernatural when the two main characters encounter a freaky ghost child. It really reminded me of The Ring when that lady is brushing her hair from that video people die from. Anyways very cool.
ReplyDeleteHi Justine! I thought I'd already responded to this video, but it seems that my response wasn't posted. Sorry for the delay! I find it interesting that many people seem to be responding to this piece as "scary", which I think says something about how footage like this gets used in popular movies. It seems that anytime the regular narrative flow of images is disrupted by an alternative editing/shooting style, it becomes disconcerting the way any abnormal experience might be the first time. This reading is in no way incorrect, but I guess I've seen enough that I read this more as a fleeting, ephemeral look at domesticity than as something "creepy". It feels very similar to the editing/shooting style of early avant-garde filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Robert Breer, to name just a few examples, and I think it deploys those strategies with a lot of success.
ReplyDeleteThe tension between abstraction and representation here is part of its success: seeing what I assume is the back of someone's head, their hair out of focus, then fleeting lights of some sort, all cut in such a way as to seem like little scraps of memory and perception tied together, contrasted with the short moments of someone's face and smile. It's very ephemeral and delicate, in my mind. For a reference point, maybe take a look at Brakhage's "Window Water Baby Moving" (warning: there are some pretty graphic moments of a home birth, but it's quite beautiful).
The open question here is about the sound: there is a moment near the end where the silence is interrupted by a bit of static. It is so isolated as to feel like a mistake right now, but I think it could be tweaked to really be something powerful. The silence really draws attention to the visual, and sets up a certain expectation once we feel that the whole piece is going to be silent, then our expectation is interrupted by this bit of sound. If you were then to have a section where the audio was tightly knit with the image in some way, then this would change our whole perception of the piece.
I like the coloration, as other people have mentioned, and I think it gives it a kind of vintage feeling. (it resembles shooting in tungsten balanced light with daylight balanced film) It might be nice, if you add to this piece later, to have different sections delineated by the coloration. I will say that it feels very much in the territory of 60's and 70's experimental film, and I think it might be worth questioning how you can make a contemporary update on this style that does feel very connected to that period.