Media Studio | Wed Wk. 11

Today in class, I sat with Robbie and we finally sorted out my theme, from balance, to movement, I feel like I like to expand off movement and work with gravity, and question the art of gravity and how it functions, working with slow-motion, and rotating and mirroring of images, films etc. As I didn’t have any footage to work off in class, I decided to do some research on the RMIT library to help me out, I found quite a couple good articles on gravity and relating it to art. Vladimir Kantor’s journal article, “Overcoming Gravity: Pushkin on Freedom and Art” had an interesting perspective on comparing gravity to life as he states “the kind of freedom and ease enjoyed by Pushkin do not come easily; they are the result of overcoming the gravity of earthly life, its injustices.” He relates gravity has a sense of stabilisation in one’s life, and I found that very intriguing, as without gravity, everything on Earth would be crazy, and therefore, challenging gravity would create a form of chaos. During this tutorial, Nicolette also helped me download the program Premiere, and taught me how to use it so once I had my footage I would be able to edit with ease with this Adobe program.

 

Media Studio | Wk. 10

I missed this whole week of Uni as I was representing RMIT at the Australian Uni Games in Queensland. However, I did message my classmates, and had a look at their blogs to see what I had missed out on. From what I could tell, everyone is expanding from their themes and creating ideas for their film and audio pieces. I am still stuck on what theme let alone which videos and what type of audio will accompany them. I think at this stage I like theme of “movement” and incorporate tumbling, gymnastics, and moving shapes so far, but I’m still brainstorming. I noticed Jordan had done a tutorial on how to use Premiere to create our films with the right dimensions for the Signal Exhibition and they have named it “Obsession”. I guess I’ll have to ask someone when I get back to explain how to export the videos in the correct format, but first I need to brainstorm and film!!!