Editing and Narrative - Michael's tutorial
An exercising python, pil and ffmpeg to sort images by brightness ((make grayscale, convert to 1x1px image, value the grayscaleness of this pixel)). In this way, by altering the rhythm and even the connotation of the original movie - a new composition of body movement is created.
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Further references: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_nude_motion_study_by_Eadweard_Muybridge_(2).jpg
Brightness: the luminance of a body that an observer uses to determine the comparative luminance of another body. (from www.thefreedictionary.com/brightness)
Brightness as the structural element of the new composition. Brightness as the common unit, linking the physical and digital performance. Transporting the visual effects of the illumination on the object and the object within a scene, towards the screen color values.
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The re-arrangement of the image sequence, by brightness, consequently creates a new movement sequence:
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In choreography's tradition, the traces of a performance, have fed the imagination, and given rise to new versions of future performances.
"Choreography's manifold incarnations are a perfect ecology of idea-logics; they do not insist on a single path to form-of-thought and persist in the hope of being without enduring." by William Forsythe
further references: http://sarma.be/oralsite/pages/William_Forsythe_on_Scores/
My experience continued by re-thinking the video screen as a stage, a frame for the performance to happen. A more abstract experiment, focusing on the visual space perception. A technique very much used in observational drawings within anatomy studies. This time, the performance settings focused on the positive and negative spaces created by the moving body in contrast with the backgrounds:
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further references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space_(visual_arts) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_vase#/media/File:Rubin2.jpg
