Heather's Final Project

My video, “More than passing notes” is a combination of new ideas with elements from two previous projects. I wanted to work with my last video “Passing Notes” because I thought it had a lot of potential, and I decided to mix it with my stop-animation project that used scrabble letters. I chose stop animation with my video because I thought that in this case, it especially helped enhance the mysterious and scary parts. I tried to make my video have a creepy feeling to it, and thought I could achieve this by having allusive scrabble words appear throughout the video. I didn’t want the viewer to form a concrete opinion on what they were watching, but rather to be puzzled and form their own thoughts on what was going on. I watched “Passing Notes” many times in order to pinpoint what worked in it and what I thought had to be changed. I think that this video captures what I was trying to achieve in my previous version and in doing so it became a very different work.

Morgan's Final Video

“Mask, I am” is apiece about identity and the confusion it can bring. I originally started out wanting to create a piece that showed the material aspect of the identity and self and it became something not only about the materialness of identity or the mask in the video many of the hidden truths or “I am”s in the piece. In the sound of the video I am reading the dictionary definition of identity as a part of the materiality or literal understanding of identity, which is not how we always think of it. The “I am”s correspond with the ripping of the masks off of the face in trying to reveal a hidden self, or a true self, which there are many of. For me the piece is also a little dark because, the masks look almost like a second skin so the line between what is “true” identity and what is “fake” are not always clear.

Marika's Final Project "Hands"

--My final project incorporates the use of my hands and how they are used to perform daily tasks. Simple tasks may include braiding hair, to typing on a keyboard. Hands have a unique and almost fluid motion that is very rhythmic. My film is divided into separate segments, each with two distinct tasks of how my hands move. For instance, my first segment: shows me braiding my hair and also doodling on a piece of paper. I thought these hand performances complemented each other because the doodling has a very curvy, unique pattern to it, similar to a French braid when it is done. I chose to use a lot of transparency in my piece, because I not only liked the effect that it gave, but I also thought it brought my concept of hands to life. My sound piece is a combination of rain, the sound of frogs (because they were making noises in the rain), typing on a keyboard, tapping on a desk, creasing paper and doodling. I thought my sound piece incorporated a lot of obvious aspects that my film portrays, but adding the rain added a feeling that was natural. After all, rain is part of nature and our hands are a natural feature that we are given when we are born.--

Sara A's Final Project

This piece incorporates film with sound. It is taking the sounds of a basketball game and turning it into a rhythm, while putting images of a basketball game and a viewer to the beat. This piece incorporates repetition and varied tempos in order to give each action its own beat and emotion. Towards the end of the video, the tempo speeds up and it becomes much more choppy and quick. This was put in in order to capture how it feels to watch the end of a basketball game and the emotion of anxiety we feel when we watch the end of a basketball game. There are certain actions and sounds that are common when we view a basketball game, and this video is highlighting some of those sounds and actions, but through a different perspective. I wanted to turn the sites and sounds of a basketball game into more than just an event. I wanted to summarize what I observed when I watched the basketball game, but instead of explaining it, I put it to sound and images. There are many instances where certain songs remind us of certain events; this piece was an interpretation of that idea.

Morgan's In Progress Video

Leland's new project

Heather's Scary Movie

In my video, I wanted to create a creepy atmosphere by having the camera constantly moving and I tried to do this by only using a tripod sparingly. My inspiration were the movies I know What You did Last Summer and The Blair Witch Project.