User:Roelroscama/R,W&RM

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Descriprion of previous projects / Assignment 1

Work 1:
The work is a video documentation of an event. It fades into an opening shot made from the front window of a driving van. Then the scene is overlaid by two texts "Freekea Woerkshop" and "Reverse engineering Ikea products and building them yourself". The next scenes show more driving, the passengers of the van and a big Ikea store. In the following scenes the passengers are getting out and entering the store, where they standing in line for breakfast. Some footage of breakfast ensues. Then the video cuts to a hand getting ikea's typical pencils, measuring tapes and note sheets. After that in several scenes the people are seen measuring down various types of furniture in the store using these instruments. Then they are seen getting free furniture fittings.

Then the scenery changes and the group is seen in an office building working with computers and a laser cutting machine. There are seen making a lampshade and then comparing it to an identical one on the ikea website. This kind of comparison between self made product and the ikea product is repeated with other objects. The video ends with a panning shot of all kinds of self made furniture with the Ikea product names next to it, a last shot of the building and the text www.partsba.se

Work 2:
The work is a website under the domain www.theragepage.net. It has a black background and starts loading and playing approximately twelve different youtube clips at the same time. The videos are scattered around the browser window and are partly overlaid on top of each other so the viewer is required to scroll around to see them all. The videos are footage and sound of people and animals screaming. Examples include rabid cats, people on a roller coaster, a rooster, a woman getting a tattoo and two videos no longer available. When the sound is on all the sounds played at the same time are very annoying. At the same time the heavy load of the website freezes my computer a bit, making it unable to alter or close the website until most of the videos have been played. Every time the website is reloaded the same videos seem to load in a slightly different order creating a different soundscape.