Week 2

Blood In the Gutter: Editing for Page + Screen

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Jessica Jones opening shot: Comic vs Show

Jessica Jones opening shot: Comic vs Show

 

Week 2 Reading + Editing Lecture 

The Blood in the Gutter comic came at such a great time because I started reading comics just a couple of months ago and immediately noticed how well comic presentation could so easily apply to screen storyboarding, editing, and cinematography. It’s a great and simple way to examine shots and the story telling.

My favourite part of the reading would definitely be the types of transition between gutters/shots:

  1. Moment to Moment
  2. Action to Action
  3. Subject to Subject
  4. Scene to Scene
  5. Aspect to Aspect
  6. Non-Sequiteur

It was so interesting to see the comparisons of dominant storytelling styles between cultures – how one artist could stray from the dominant style yet still remain mainstream/popular/straightforward.

I totally have to play with those transition styles soon – especially the non-sequiteur. The comic also had an interesting point about the relative impossibility of having truly unconnected images; that one way or another, we will impose some sort of relation on them.

I’m just really excited to play with editing styles and effects!! I’ve always enjoyed the post production process so it’s great to really study it more closely.

Media exercise in the Emporium: Wk 2 Lectorial

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If we didn’t already know it before, this exercise cements into your brain that media is everywhere, used by everyone for everything: personal, corporate, marketing, art etc. It’s impossible to be immune to it if you lived in any kind of city. There are so many forms of media and the ways we use it are constantly expanding.

However, compared to many other shopping locations in the area (especially Melbourne Central), the Emporium has considerably less media exposure. It’s quite subdued in there in terms of screen bombardment and is by no means any kind of Time Square. It could be because of the Emporium’s reputation as a more upscale destination and they want to preserve that luxurious atmosphere.

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UP HIGH:

  • Animated restaurant menus on screens
  • Soundtracks to accompany your shopping, has the vibe of the store

ON THE GROUND:

  • Projections of logos/advertising images

MID-GROUND:

  • People on their phones
  • People taking photos
  • People on their laptops using the free wifi in the food court

BACKGROUND:

  • People on their phones
  • Screens projecting advertisements
  • iPads in many stores to enhance a more personalised, “cooler” approach to shopping in their stores

FOREGROUND:

  • People on their phones
  • interactive shopping centre maps/information/game screens

IN YOUR HAND:

  • my iPhone

Photos:

Video:

https://vimeo.com/158586383

 

Is the unmediated life more authentic than the mediated: A ramble

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Screen Shot 2016-03-10 at 5.03.01 pmWhat even is an authentic life? How do you measure authenticity?! It is often said that people these days live behind a screen (usually implied as a bad thing) and we should all instead go out into the real world and have adventures. Okay, cool. The real world…

I have a friend who has been working in remote South American forests these last few months and trees apparently don’t conduct strong wifi signals (who knew) so he’s pretty “unmediated” right now. Safe to say, he’s probably living a life many would call “authentic”, unperturbed by technology and the public gaze.

Me? In the last hour I’ve tweeted, inboxed people on Facebook, sent emails, surfed Youtube, and scrolled down Tumblr. You, studying Media and probably reading this from your laptop, might have spent a recent hour in a similar way. So what makes my eco buddy better than people like us? Is his life better lived, his time better spent, just because he’s in a hut with no running water? I, for one, enjoy running water and have little desire to live without it yet people applaud his way of living and dismiss our own as shallow. I’m sorry I like to have people and knowledge at my fingertips! It’s awesome that we can communicate with people worlds away from us or that we can share our passion on a globalised scale – it makes our experience of the world all the richer. This is the world we live in and media is at the forefront. The mediated world surrounds us now so mediated experiences should never be dismissed as anything less than a valid existence. Meanwhile he can play with a leopard while waiting 5 minutes for the gif I sent him to load…still a valid existence, I swear!

Now on authenticity – do my friendships in this city overshadow those with people overseas? So there can’t be hugs or coffee dates but there’s Google Hangouts and Tweets and everything in between that reflect just as much on who we are as people. Of course it would be cooler to actually play with a leopard than seeing a video of it but there’s nothing to say that metropolitan living is better or worse than less urbanised living.

Something that really irritates me are people who romanticise “those days when we actually had to talk to each other!” Oh, please don’t pretend for a second that 21 year old you in the 80s spent your evenings having lovely chats and playing Scrabble with your parents. You think your 18 year old great great grandmother spent all day having tea with her mother dearest? People will talk when they want to and find ways to get away from each other when they don’t. Nothing groundbreaking here.

Unfocused rant over. That was exhausting. Ummmm okay……..PUBLISH!

Samples of Self: Lo-Fi Self Portrait Project

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IMAGES:

dressing lights

IMG_0259

shoes

bookcase

stage door

boxes

These collection of images are made up of the different moments and motifs that embody my life. bookcase and things focus on pure, untouched moments whilst boxes and dance shoes are clearly more staged photos – both portraying my life in equally faithful ways. The boxes in boxes actually hold a collection of memorabilia from every year of the past decade, as with those diaries slotted in. dressing lights and stage door fall between moment and motif, being both ordinary moments and partly staged snapshots.

 

SOUNDS:

Train Sounds

Rehearsal Studio Sounds

Late Night Sounds

These three ambient tracks portray the places I regularly find myself in. Rehearsal Studio is the only unstaged sound and no one was aware they were being recorded. The ticking clock in Late Night is a special favourite feature because of the almost delirious state it depicts when it’s 3 am and you’re doing god knows what. Typing is featured in both Late Night and Train – may reveal how much time I spend on my laptop.

VIDEO:

https://vimeo.com/158367987

The first clip is a very self aware recording of me losing my shit over a TV show. The faint blue light coming in from the window indicates it’s 6 am and I woke up just to watch the newly released clip.

There is one thing I can be certain of in my current existence and that is spending 2 hours on public transport to get to places every day. Nothing very interesting happens in that video because nothing very interesting ever happens on the train and it’s just this whirring, blue and grey eternity.

The last clip is just a bizarre little thing exploring escape and interruption.

TEXT:

it’s a gasp of energy and escape

a breath of ribbon

and moonlight

like pencils gliding under stars of ticking clocks

dancing on hats and painted saxophones

A little nonsensical thing I wrote that explores different sensations that somewhat encapsulate the entire self portrait project.

 

– Margaret xx