DEVELOPMENT POST 1 (PB4)
We have commenced our final project and for this we have chosen to expand on our previous work Spaces. Our last project explored how people interact with places, juxtaposing actions with the spaces they were in and other spaces. An unexpected aspect of the project that came through once we had completed it was the visual representation of human bodies and actions. Utilising extreme close up shots and the repetition of movements created interesting visual aesthetics. Feedback from the pitch in the last assignment indicated that we could consider further exploring this aspect of our project.
Therefore, we have decided to explore actions within places once again. However, we will be focussing solely on hands and the movements created with hands. This project will have less of a focus on the meaning, connections and understandings of the actions and is more about the visual experience. We have decided to continue to utilise Korsakow to create this project, as this software affords us the ability to generate the interface we believe is appropriate for our project. In class we discussed the importance of interface and design, and its relevance to an interactive project. The interactive documentary The Iron Curtain Diaries is an example an an interactive project that utilises interface in an integral way to convey information. The projects main interface is an interactive map that shows the iron curtain and 17 clickable hotspots along the line which correlate to cities. I like how the interface in this project provides context and is highly relevant to the project itself. In terms of relating this to our project, we need to think about interface and how to incorporate its relevance to the overall project.
Our current idea for the project is that it will have three clusters and two tags; landscapes and hands. The first section will consist of still photographs of four different landscapes with audio recordings of the place- this section will be tagged with landscapes. The second section will be videos of hands creating movements within the space with no audio- the tags will be both landscapes and hands for this section. The second section bridges the three sections, connecting to the third which consists of only hands and is tagged with hands. This final section will be videos of hands recreating movements from the landscape with ASMR style sounds from landscapes. Each section has an element taken away from it, for example in the first section the audience will be able to see the place, hear the movement but not be able to see the movement. In the second section the audience will be able to see the location and see the movement but not be able to hear it. In the third section the audience will be able to see the movement, here it but not be able to see the place it originates from.
The project will be responding to these four characteristics of online film production:
- Interactivity
- Variability
- Modularity
- Multilinearity
The project is intended to be once again an audiovisual experience, however this time we are focussing on a both visual and audio experience. I think that incorporating audio will create a more experiential project for audiences. Moreover, we will be attempting to recreate sounds from the landscape in an ASMR inspired way. For example, we intend to use water sounds like this ASMR video with clips of hands replicating the action of interacting with water.