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Editing

This is a short clip from my film ‘defunct’. I have been looking at was to combine both found footage and rotoscoping. Whilst I am happy with what how things are coming together visually I have been more and more concerned with sound. I have been looking into dementia and visual and auditory hallucinations, at first I was very drawn to the idea of a very heavy and chaotic soundtrack but after researching and asking those I know that experienced this personally or second hand. To my understanding people experiencing this will hear false voices and “A soundtrack of the scene” This in particular made me curious trying to discover the soundtrack of the scene. I live in the city and there is no such thing as silence, I have been trying to understand the nuances of constant background noise that exists in the every day. This clip may not be the perfect example but it was my first attempt at constructing this sensation. I am hoping to further exaggerate this throughout the film so as to represent a decline into isolating and frustratingly exaggerating version of experiencing a moment. 

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Jeff Scher

Still From Garden Of Edith

https://vimeo.com/user623597

I through my project I have been looking at ways to evoke memory and movement, researching into this I have become more and more drawn to Jeff Scher in a more stylistic sense but I recently came across  his film ‘Garden Of Edith’ (a tribute of Scher to his grandmother) I was taken by how this film was able to evoke so much movement and nostalgia in a 10 second clip. In the film the figure morphs from line and colour into the image of a face perfectly capturing the experience of remembering the features of those we hold dear. The pink tint of the animation evokes the act of seeing with rose tinted glasses (sorry for the cliche) that is associated with the manipulations we place on memories. Whilst the actual animation doesn't show much movement the manipulation of line and tone are constantly shifting our perception imbuing the film with the life of this figure. I think it is a masterful handling of life through the moving image and whilst my film is far more monochromatic I hope to capture a the subtleties of moment and memory that Scher captures both in this film and others

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Rotoscoping for Final Project

As I have mentioned previously I have decided to use rotoscoping as a component for my final project. 

What have I been doing?

In this clip I am exploring ways in which to transition my drawings with my scratched film. In this example I have abstracted original film so it disintegrates into line and tone in the hopes that the imagery will appear to melt seamlessly into film. In testing this animation and others I have found at points it can be a little jaring so this was my attempt to try a more fluid transitional effect. the disadvantage I have faced with rotoscoping is the realisation that my film will ultimately be less dense in this technique as I would have liked however it has allowed me to think more creatively in using the animations that I currently have and made me more conscious of what else I need to include. For the moment i will continue to keep drawing and producing as many frames as I can. i have found the combination of these techniques to be quite satisfactory as it creates an immediate sense of nostalgia and whimsy to the work.

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Final Project

Defunct.

No longer existing or functioning.  When as human beings do we become Defunct? at what point to we start our inevitable journey of losing our minds? There is an innate human fear of losing ones cognitive ability, when memory is so central to who we are what then do we become with ought it? For my final project I intend to create a work that explores and amplifies this experience of remembering and its eventual disintegration.

I chose to explore this topic as I believe that film in itself  can have a quality of nostalgia and melancholy. for my previous project I used some found footage, I was struck by how strangely personal the film felt, even though it was of people i’d never met. It felt almost voyeuristic, as if intruding on someone else memories. The film was faded in some places and I further bleached and scratched the film, the effect of which, whilst both physically destroying the image, visually evoked a sense of the decay.

I will continue to use this process as well as the rotoscoping technique. The imperfect and personal nature of this technique I think will further inject the sense of the individual, pared with with a soundscape that will hopefully seem both familiar and completely alien.

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Angels

This is a clip from my rhythm project. In this moment my intention was to make something that felt chaotic so as to evoke feelings of anger and confusion. I created this clip by drawing on 16mm blank film and then looping it.

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Drawing on clear leader for my rhythm project

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Rotoscoping

The animation process of tracing over film frame by frame to create a moving image. 

Thoughts:

For my first attempt at this technique I was over all pretty satisfied with the result. I choose to do a pretty simple piece of footage as, whilst I was curious about creating the movement of the object I was also intrigued by movements based on my own human error, this being imperfect tracing or subtle moments of my camera due to it makeshift tea cup tripod. whilst I know that I could have edited out these things to a degree I found these things where what I enjoyed most. In hindsight I possibly could have spent less time on each drawing in favour of more frames, I will continue to think about ways in which to balance detail with a more dynamic result. 

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Athyrium Filix Femina

by Kelly EGAN 

2016 / 35mm / colour / sound / 1S / 4’ 19

https://lightcone.org/en/film-12385-athyrium-filix-femina

A captivatingly chaotic and unsettling personification of torment and emotional decline. The artists though the use of found footage erratically layered with what appear as haunting shadow like botanical figures intends to question a distinctly androcentric history.

What drew me most to this film was the stark acid blue hue to the film that pulsated as if I was seeing the footage physically burn. I also was attracted to the use of plants as outlines instead of physical objects placed on the film. The sense of absence this created was both ominous and intriguing.

The editing of this film is jarring, images flicker rabidly, the edges of the film are always in view, sometimes invading the centre of the film as if it where collapsing in on itself. 

This imagery is accompanied by an ambient static that is distinctly familiar and yet simultaneously indistinguishable. like the film it flickers and pulses further aiding in this sense of visual anguish.