OVE PROJECT 4 – FINAL

After successfully filmed 2 musicians and had videos and images uploaded, I was reminded by Seth that I need to have a release form signed by the musician in order to use their footage on my account. Unfortunately I was not able to get back from them and therefore I changed my prototype again.

A friend of mine, Mark Chan is a musician currently busking around Melbourne city. Since he was the only who got back to me and would like to be filmed and shared on social network, I decided to change the prototype to a documentary of one musician instead of multiple artist. My idea is to arrange the interface with designed images and videos, each of them are uploaded in a sorted order and each song Mark performs would be cut into 2-3 of a 15 second Instagram video.

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Mark has his own personal Instagram account, so with the posts that allows me to tag, his account would be tagged on them. He does have a Facebook fan page Mark Chan Sings which specifically remediates his performance, therefore it is link on the Instagram fan profile as well.

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OVE PROJECT 4 – The Instagram Documentary on Buskers in Melbourne: Starting

The studio on Friday last week ended up with a semi approved prototype and I will be working on it alone. Since I finally got on a right track I think this is a good start of a project that might save my ass from a dangerous position I have been at in the course (laugh).

So I created a profile with my student account and clearly stated that this profile is made for my media project. My first filming took place on Saturday, I filmed the performance of The Elliotts Band performing at Bourke St Mall in front of  H&M GPO. My second filming was on Sunday, about Tash Sultana, a musician from Melbourne who has held numbers of gigs and shows around Melbourne.

Basically I plan to structure the profile page in very clear sections on different artists: each artist has 3 videos and 3 612x612px photos edited from a pano taken on my phone. The profile is planned to be a collection of buskers performing in Melbourne city.

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The profile has been created for a few days but videos were uploaded just this afternoon. Videos of Tash Sultana has reached 13 likes in less than 20 minutes.

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With the use of hashtags, I have gained 3 followers by the time of 16:24.

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OVE PROJECT 4 – The Again and Again Brainstorming

So Aref and I talked and decided to make something involves with less filming techniques and closer to everyday life in Melbourne on Instagram as our Online Video Experiment prototype after our idea of racing cars was denied. We talked a bit more during the weekend, failed to have an agreement, then we met up and talked again on Wednesday after non of us were able to attend the studio on Monday. However, our short meeting (Aref didn’t have enough time) didn’t lead us to a conclusion but got us stuck at the neck of a beer bottle — Aref wants to do fitness and I want to produce an on going narrated documentary about buskers in Melbourne on Instagram.

Inspired by the group that is doing coffee review, and had a thought that Melbourne is famous of its coffee culture, I decided to look into something that’s somehow typical in Melbourne as well. I walked around Melbourne city and looked back the videos I took with Instagram before, I think buskers can be something represents Melbourne as well.

Then I started planing for a structure for the Instagram profile that will be documenting buskers with videos using the typical 3×4 layout. Inspired by RORORUKO, a Japanese fashion model Roruko’s Instagram which uses individual Instagram photos to construct bigger images and link them together.

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I used to cut some of my panorama photos into 3 equal sessions make them a whole image rather than only showing a part of it as limited by the squared frame of Instagram.

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After reading an article by Kimber Streams about Instagram as a short documentary of real life, I’m proposing a narrated documentary (and on-going documentary that does not necessarily comes to an end) using the 3×4 profile layout to present stories of buskers. Each sequence are make up with 6 videos and these videos are uploaded in a sorted order. Each videos continues the content from the previous videos. A visitor of this profile may view the whole production if starting from the first video and next ones in produced order.

Buskers are chosen by chance and I will acknowledge them in the texts below each videos and link their Instagram profiles (if any). Copies of videos will be sent to them if required.

NOTE: this is not agreed as a prototype.

OVE PROJECT 3 – The Making

Published sketches: 6 in total. (Sketch 2-7)
All sketches are filmed by myself with a Canon EOS 60D.

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Sketch 2:

You are at the station, tired, unclear about the time of the day, looking at the person waiting for a train that goes to the opposite direction. Is that just one man at the station at for the whole time? Are they different men? Is there a girl standing there looking at you? Or there isn’t anyone at all?

Filmed at Jolimont – MCG Station with my friend Castiel Cheng, Penny Wang and Gary Peng. Castiel and Gary were on the platform opposite to me and Penny, Castiel stayed at under the light as the person in frame and Gary was guarding as well as keeping continuity, Penny was at the same role as Gary while I was filming. Penny took the camera while I stood on the other side to be filmed.

Inspired by the Paris underground scene shown at the opening of ‘Hurricane’.

Sketch 3:

You are walking some where but can’t stay on your feet. You have hallucinations that a girl is walking towards you in the dark. You can’t see her face but it seems like you know who she is. Eventually you collapse.

Shoots of the street was filmed by myself on Lt Latrobe St and the ones showing skyline from a lane way was filmed on Union Ln, accompanied by Angus Ward in 2014.
Shoots of a girl walking in a park was filmed at MCG, staring Penny Wang, Castiel and her stayed on the phone for directions and Gary was guarding during the shoot.
Background music: ‘L490’ by Thirty Seconds to Mars, from album ‘This Is War’.

Inspired by the jump-cuts and flashing shoots during the entire opening sequence of ‘Hurricane’.

Sketch 4:

You are a boxer, or you are trying to be one. You want to be tough but you’ve been lying on the ground. You can’t see who is around you, you don’t hear any sound. You are in a dream.

Filmed at T.U.F. Gym Melbourne with Naz Shah. Staring two boxing trainers Christopher and Mark. Lighting apart from the light in studio was a dido kit hired from RMIT. Sound was taken off at editing.

Sketch 5:

You are travelling in a city, you don’t know where you are and who is leading you. It’s an endless journey.

Filmed in Shanghai and Zhouzhuang in June 2014. Music used is ‘Intro’ by The XX.

Inspired by the genre of music video and the theme ‘dreams’.

Sketch 6:

Is he dropping a book or picking up a book? The “book” can also be considered as a faith or a belief. Are you loosing it or holding on to it?

Filmed at RMIT near the courtyard. Starring Kevin Chan.

Inspired by the scene that a priest, a monk and a pope throwing their bibles and books to the fire at 5:55 in ‘Hurricane’.

Sketch 7:

You know, sometimes the dreams you have dreamt before come back to you. Sometimes one comes to you alone and sometimes they come to you together. Just like stress. They hit your dreams at once and you feel like you it’s too much for you to handle.

Footages are combined of previous sketches, background music: ‘L490’ by Thirty Seconds to Mars, from album ‘This Is War’. Sound effects are from free SFX downloading website.

Inspired by the theme ‘dreams’ and my daily life.

From My Balcony

Had a very heavy rain on that day (about 20 minutes before this photo was taken). The rain was able to turn day to night.

 

At dawn of a normal day.

About 5pm and it was about to rain.

 

Same day as the previous photo, started raining.

 

Some photos of the view I can get from the balcony of my apartment. The first two photos were taken in May and June with Nikon D60 (with NIKKOR AF-S DX 18-85mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens). The second two were taken this week with Canon EOS 60D (with Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens).