Reading Paul D. Miller's (DJ Spooky) article "Material and Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image" I was introduced to a different view of film as a ritual. Miller talks about Maya Deren who described a ritual as an action that needs to be viewed so that it's purpose can be understood. Miller explains how then that film and time are one because film allows a ritual to be seen at a time and space when it is not physically happening. He continues to explain the elusiveness of now and the wonder of how everything works. The blip of consciousness of reality that is the present can be captured and preserved in film, I understood that this is why he remixes film, to alter the reality that was once lived in order to draw the attention of a spectator to his message.
This was an extremely interesting article mainly because of its relation to what I have been doing with my audio and video captured in my drifts. I have been remixing reality, capturing the ever changing present and remixing the story of my walks in order to create something entirely different. For me the idea of what I am creating is not as interesing as how I am creating it in this instance. I did not edit my video in a way that would invoke a cetain message in a viewer, I instead attempted to alter my memory of what I had viewed on these walks and I think partially has to do with what I read from DJ Spooky.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Video Hardware/Software Response
My experiences with the Olympus digital camera ultimately effected how my final drift project turned out. Overall I was very pleased with the capabilities of the camera once I discovered a few things about it.
Firstly I was somewhat tricked by the lcd display screen's size. Being so small it seemed like objects farther away that I wished to capture on video were too insignificant and minuscule to be noticed. After bringing the camera back from my initial walk and uploading the content I was pleased to find that the video was taken with much better quality than I had expected. So those far away objects were represented better than I had previously imagined.
I was also intrigued by the effects that natural light, obviously the sun, had on the camera. It created an interesting purple glow on the video that I eventually implemented into my final video.
This camera was much simpler to use than camera's I have previously worked with. This allowed me to not worry too much about the functions of the camera and I could focus on what it was I was trying to capture. In the end I think this allowed me to take more substantial material.
I was able to capture light being transmitted through natural life (i.e. leaves and bushes) effectively with this camera, but it was the effects I was not intending to capture that I was most interested in and are depicted in my final video.
In an ideal world the camera would be able to capture things the human eye could not perceive, I find this more entertaining material to view.
I had quite an adventure deciding on a video-editing software. I am most framiliar with Adobe software, but since I did not have a copy of Premiere Pro, and am financially restrained I searched for an alternative. I am using Windows on a laptop so Imovie was out of the picture and Quicktime Pro required the spending of money I did not have as well. I had initally turned to the basics of Windows Moviemaker but could not edit the video from the camera, so I made due with stills for the first rough drafts. I tried to convert the video with VLC but unsuccessful so I downloaded a free trial of Sony Vegas which I was pleased with. Vegas was easy to use and provided enough basic tools, as well as more complicated tools that I had no need for, to feel confident in my video. Presently I am contemplating investing in this software. There's a few day's left on the trial so I might play around with it to see what it's capable of.
Firstly I was somewhat tricked by the lcd display screen's size. Being so small it seemed like objects farther away that I wished to capture on video were too insignificant and minuscule to be noticed. After bringing the camera back from my initial walk and uploading the content I was pleased to find that the video was taken with much better quality than I had expected. So those far away objects were represented better than I had previously imagined.
I was also intrigued by the effects that natural light, obviously the sun, had on the camera. It created an interesting purple glow on the video that I eventually implemented into my final video.
This camera was much simpler to use than camera's I have previously worked with. This allowed me to not worry too much about the functions of the camera and I could focus on what it was I was trying to capture. In the end I think this allowed me to take more substantial material.
I was able to capture light being transmitted through natural life (i.e. leaves and bushes) effectively with this camera, but it was the effects I was not intending to capture that I was most interested in and are depicted in my final video.
In an ideal world the camera would be able to capture things the human eye could not perceive, I find this more entertaining material to view.
I had quite an adventure deciding on a video-editing software. I am most framiliar with Adobe software, but since I did not have a copy of Premiere Pro, and am financially restrained I searched for an alternative. I am using Windows on a laptop so Imovie was out of the picture and Quicktime Pro required the spending of money I did not have as well. I had initally turned to the basics of Windows Moviemaker but could not edit the video from the camera, so I made due with stills for the first rough drafts. I tried to convert the video with VLC but unsuccessful so I downloaded a free trial of Sony Vegas which I was pleased with. Vegas was easy to use and provided enough basic tools, as well as more complicated tools that I had no need for, to feel confident in my video. Presently I am contemplating investing in this software. There's a few day's left on the trial so I might play around with it to see what it's capable of.
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