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==description of what I'm actually trying to do as a graduation project now== | ==description of what I'm actually trying to do as a graduation project now== | ||
===what is it about=== | |||
My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos.<br> | My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos.<br> | ||
(why confessions?) | |||
A video is projected in a room, a collage/mashup of videos directly streaming from YouTube.<br> | A video is projected in a room, a collage/mashup of videos directly streaming from YouTube.<br> | ||
====why streaming from youtube exactly?==== | |||
I have been examining other projects that make use of youtube videblogs, but I have been very much disappointed to understand that none of | |||
===how does it work== | |||
while there is no one watching, the video shows an idle scene, pieces of video in which a person stares at the camera, waiting for an audience; as soon as visitors enter the installation space, the video gradually changes into scenes in which the vlogger is revealing more and more intimate details about their life; the level of intimacy and the content of the confessions/revelations is related to factors like the number of people present and the distance between the spectator/s and the projection, the level of noise recorded. | |||
==link to the videos I made and playlists on AA== | ==link to the videos I made and playlists on AA== | ||
{{#widget:Vimeo|id=39081732|width=640|height=360}} <br/> | {{#widget:Vimeo|id=39081732|width=640|height=360}} <br/> | ||
[http://vimeo.com/38450375 Video on Vimeo] | [http://vimeo.com/38450375 Video on Vimeo] | ||
Revision as of 18:00, 22 April 2012
Project Diary
explanation of how my project used to be about self affirmation of identity and ended up being about confessions
actual explanation
Over the summer, I started becoming more and more fascinated with the concept of constant editing and control over an Online Identity, I had read several books about it, and it seemed a good topic to explore for my graduation project. I started looking at how people behave online, at the pictures they choose to represent them, at the patterns recognizable in people's behaviour online.
Until I saw this video.
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Then, all of a sudden, I realized: I was much more fascinated by the motive that may drive a hyperactive teenage girl to talk for six minutes about her new fuzzy slippers than any other topic I had explored.
After that, it was just a matter of time before I stumbled into my first confessional videos
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description of what I'm actually trying to do as a graduation project now
what is it about
My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos.
(why confessions?)
A video is projected in a room, a collage/mashup of videos directly streaming from YouTube.
why streaming from youtube exactly?
I have been examining other projects that make use of youtube videblogs, but I have been very much disappointed to understand that none of
=how does it work
while there is no one watching, the video shows an idle scene, pieces of video in which a person stares at the camera, waiting for an audience; as soon as visitors enter the installation space, the video gradually changes into scenes in which the vlogger is revealing more and more intimate details about their life; the level of intimacy and the content of the confessions/revelations is related to factors like the number of people present and the distance between the spectator/s and the projection, the level of noise recorded.