Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Abstract Space



I choose my entire home for the assignment because it was familiar and it would be easy to keep track of what I was recording.  I tended to be attracted to lighting and clocks, probably because of the sound and the assignment.  I also liked moving through different environments giving the moving a wobbly feel.  The footage was layered over a clock and set to an opacity of around 25-30%.  Each layer is a different walk through and there are several other items layered throughout.  The flashlight was mirrored to give it an interesting effect.  The sound clips was slowed down to half speed and repeated.  The final change of the video editing was flip the video with the flop effect.

I was hoping it would give almost a cult's  hypnotic video feel or a video that shows images of the mind.  The message is conveyed using sound and video for several reasons.  The sound increases and decreases and is warped creating a nostalgic yet confusing feeling.  Several images are played on top of one another in order to create chaos and mind flashes until it combines into a circle at the end.  The image of the clock is flipped and as such gives an odd sensation to the viewer because it is displayed in reverse in both numbers and the movement of the hands.  This leads to the title Time Tells Lies, which was created because of the phrase Time Tells No Lies that seemed to be in my head throughout the project.

1 comment:

  1. Nice work building an intriguing and disorienting meditation on time. I enjoy that the assignment itself has a starring role in the piece.

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