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what? Yalou says the first she saw was a flower, how it blooms, the music reminds her of constantly that the time goes, things are going, changing, movement. Ieva: assignment about time that you had to do, time that goes faster and slower, and she was thinking about internal time, when things go faster or slower. Blooming artificially and non artificially. A video about internal time.
How? She had three different process, blooming and dying. Stop motion opening a flower, the second one boiling a flower and the third one just an opening flower. edited in double exposure mostly stop motion, collage and photoshop. Picture>Photoshop + AfterEffects> Eyemovie For the blooming itself 20 or 50 images, together may be around 100.
Why? She didn't know how to represent time. Flowers have this real timeline, and clear to simbolise with the process. She also watches videos of nature. Time would be involved more time in the project that way. Why did you choose animation? She couldn't think of anything and usually when that happens she overcomplicates. She sees the difficulties of working with camera and sets. (A) May be you feel more connected with paintings and still images? Video made out of pictures, so she find that cool to capture movement and there is a strange time of movement. She always starts experimenting but doesn't have a clear vision of what she wants to achieve. Music through "Ableton". Check certain tones and notes.
What came before? Before this project she was making more abstract animations, making them with music to get synchronic audiovisuals but more in an abstract. Yalou comes back to the choice of music, Ieva says that she is inspired by Nicholas Jaar, because he makes music with interesting sounds which seems more landscapes having different textures visually, when a glass is broken you can visualise the kind of texture. So she was trying to make more sound music herself and she puts cords in there, "oh, the four cords are used in all the pop songs". Yalou says that she uses the basic to develop further.
What will follow? There's a relation about the theme: she is struggling with internal problems and subconscious problem. So it relates in the content but also in the formal aspects: audiovisuals by animations with music, which she thinks there are some meaning behind.
What would you change The proportions (aspect rate) in some places and also she feels messy that the frame had a wide line out there. Also work to be cleaner and focus on the details.
What are its limits? She doest know the context of the question. The limits are not that easy to understand if you don't know what is it about? It doesn't have a clear narrative and it is mostly made by one technique.
How could it be translated? She doesn't know... but thinking about showing the video for an exhibition.. It could be translated into a book, with more pages with smaller frames and happier one could just be more faster and clear. The idea becomes very repetitive so it could be translated into a repetitive kind of piece.
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YALOU NOTES
My interpretation:
Flowers, blooming, changing, life, movement.
It reminded me of flowers
What?
It was an assignment on time and how you perceive time. And it was about internal time. She showed the calm part. And she wanted to make it bloom naturally and artificial. When you are upset, you live in the past. When you are calm, time goes slower.
How?
She bought some tulips. 1 fried. And made stop-motion of opening the leaves. 2 boiled a flower and 3 flower in the vase. She put it in photoshop and color graded them. Some of them she put it on after effect and the other parts she added it on iMovie with dubble expositor. Most of it on photoshop.
How long did it take you? There were a couple of hundred photos in the artificial way and the normal blooming less.
She created the music on Ableton and also experimented with synthesizer to know which notes to use.
why?
Why did you choose the flower? She had struggles with the assignment and found that flowers had a clear timeline. And it was clear to her that the flower was a beautiful way to capture the time.
Why did you choose animation? She couldn't think of anything, and it felt like a spiral. Meanwhile, she learned about stage light and was thinking about using that. Most of the time she has big idea's, but she did not want to overcomplicate it.
She saw a video in school, a music video, all made out of stop-motion. That is what attracted her. She liked the movement.
Why did you choice boiling and frying? When you are upset, the time goes slower. Is connected to the frying and the boiling. She starts with experimenting, and after she starts doing it.
Choises?
Music: She is inspired by music of Nicholas Jar. He makes interesting music/ soundscape. The music has different textures to it, visually. She makes the texture hearable. Making more sound music. She uses the basics to create her music.
What came before?
Before this project she created more abstract project. She likes to connect it to the music.
What will follow?
There is a relation with what she is doing right now. It is about internal struggles and subconscious. She likes to focus it on time and the effect of it. This in combination with animation and sub subconscious.
3 questions from the question generator:
What would you change?
She would change the proportions in the video. She would change the aspect rations. Furthermore, she also didn't know that the frame had a bigger outline. And make it a bit more clean.
What are its limits?
She finds this a heart question. One thing is that it does not have a clear narrative and not easy to understand.
How can it be translated?
A book. One that reads fast and another one that reads slow. The fast one might be less boring and more fun and slow might be more pages and difficult to read.
IEVA NOTES
What?
It is an artwork that I made for my third year of university and it is about time and its' perceptions. More explicitly, it is how we experience time internally and how it changes its' speed depending on the emotional state that we are in. When we are upset and in pain we tend to linger in the past, stuck in a never ending loop of memories. While, on the contrary, when we are calm and happy, we do not even notice the passage of times, it ebbs and flows, and passes without leaving visible mark. All in all, it is all the same, a spiral of similes, differing in perception.
How?
I bought tulips and recorded their life cycles in three different ways. Two of those cycles were artificial and one was natural. I fried one tulip, and boiled another, while keeping the third one in a vase, filled with water. As I mutilated these tulips with artificial processes, and forced them to open and close, I took pictures with my phone every few steps, to capture every frame of slight changes. I did the same for the tulip in water, as it bloomed naturally. I later put these images on Photoshop, and cut them out of their backgrounds, to leave the flowers designated on a plain background. I colour graded them into blue and yellow colours, the most simple two colours I could think of to represent juxtaposing emotions. After arranging these newly edited images into a stop motion animation, I exported the video and continued working on it in iMovie and Aftereffects, where I used double exposure and distortion effects to experiment and play with the imagery even further.
The video also included music that I made myself using Ableton. As I cannot read or understand sheet music, I tried to press the notes I do know, using my synthesiser and then repeating those notes on Ableton, while adding on sound effects.
why?
I was struggling to wrap my mind around the concept of time and how to represent something that, in a sense only exists, because we give it meaning (or does it?). The subject seemed too difficult and abstract. One day, while walking to the grocery store, I saw flowers starting to blossom in spring, which reminded me of seasons passing and how clearly they mirror and divide the existence of time. Likewise, flowers have a clear timeline and a limited time span of being, which meant I could capture their full extant.
Capturing these flowers and their changes also signified putting in a lot of time to represent my idea, which meant the technique of expression would be relevant to the concept. I chose to do it as animation, as I find things that don't look natural or out of this world, fascinating and enthralling. Besides, animating, also added an extra layer to the time concept, experimenting with artificial time.
What came before?
Before this project she was making more abstract animations, making them with music to get synchronic audiovisuals but more in an abstract. Yalou comes back to the choice of music, Ieva says that she is inspired by Nicholas Jaar, because he makes music with interesting sounds which seems more landscapes having different textures visually, when a glass is broken you can visualise the kind of texture. So she was trying to make more sound music herself and she puts cords in there, "oh, the four cords are used in all the pop songs". Yalou says that she uses the basic to develop further.
Before this project she created more abstract project. She likes to connect it to the music.
Before this project, I was creating more abstract animations
What will follow?
There is a relation with what she is doing right now. It is about internal struggles and subconscious. She likes to focus it on time and the effect of it. This in combination with animation and sub subconscious.
3 questions from the question generator:
What would you change?
She would change the proportions in the video. She would change the aspect rations. Furthermore, she also didn't know that the frame had a bigger outline. And make it a bit more clean.
What are its limits?
She finds this a heart question. One thing is that it does not have a clear narrative and not easy to understand.
How can it be translated?
A book. One that reads fast and another one that reads slow. The fast one might be less boring and more fun and slow might be more pages and difficult to read.