✮Van'z Journal✮
Time Based Studio
> Project 1 (a)- Week 1- Continuous Time
> In week 1 we play with a dolly tool, where we could move the rails and have a continuous/ smooth panning of the camera. My group wanted it out on a go pro, to see a 360 view and editing.
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> 360 goPro
- a more fish eye/ wide look of the room.
> editing it to make the clips align and playing with the motion of it moving.
> had to use 2 clips and align it as there was acut off in the middle that was the edge.
> inverted one of the sides to play around with end look and to see the throwing of the ball more.
> we wanted an item to be seen thrown around so you can see the depth and height of room.
> Project 1 (b)- Week 2 - Rescoring Continuous Time
This project we had to make continuous loop project. I was inspired by horror video games and tiktok trend where people would swing the camera to the subject then back to the previous shot then back to the subject restarting what they are doing, and this becomes an endless loop without cuts and edits, it relays mainly on the loop of it. The subject is usually moving forward or towards the camera but when out of frame is reset, thus it creates the endless loop seen.
I wanted to add my own horror twist to this by having a figure come towards me in loop as if it’s a horror visual, the surreal dream like state where the horror (men, woman, entity) is coming after you in loop but they never reach you but the endless anticipation that it is coming towards you and may reach when you look away. The fear of it chasing you endlessly, down the corridor, before you could reach your room, to your safety, but the safety never comes, and you feel it over and over again. The figure tries and tries to reach you but are they really trying?
As they approach you < the viewer, the hand, the person panicking.>, the sounds they get louder, softer, calmer, louder, noisier, all you can hear is your own dialogue, is that your heart or is that their footsteps, doesn’t sound like a footstep but who knows.
Visuals
> open please open…
> made my friend walk down the
hallway <he, she, they, it?>
> horror based
> video games inspired…
>First person
>Achieved by holding the camera and hands can be seen
> Darkened the room and colors
> Added cold hues and tone to the place
> Added noises and motion blur, blurring and making it more static when it is approaching.
> rapid movements
Sound​
> overlay
> funfact…
> Its skateboards overlayed
> I put my contact mic onto the skateboard, did tricks, rode it around the park
> I asked my friends from the park to play with me using this tool, we kicked rails, knocked on wood, to find sounds that stim us. Some of these sounds oddly stimmed us during the process. We enjoyed it… I want to mess it up and make it uncomfortable, a strange stimming sound becomes overloading and overwhelming.
> Too much comfort careful now.
> We were tasked with playing with sounds as well for this assignment. Playing around with the overlays, the reverbs, and making a continuous scoring of sounds to fit the vibe and volumes. We learned contact mics <again> and played around with the possibilities more this time. I wanted a horror scoring, loud, intense and overwhelming, increasing the volume when the entity is nearby. But going soft to hear the door knob rattling and struggling to open the door, so you can hear indepth the anxiety. The sounds made it more anxiety-inducing.
> The sounds of a robot screaming AI, I played around with repeating of the word open.​
>> Repeating…
> The repetitiveness made the word open into nothing. When you hear a word many times it becomes, <nothing>
> White noise
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>> Repetition
- The ongoing theme of this work
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>What’s repetition
> calm. > madness
> meditation > anxiety
> nothing > nothing
> safety > fear
> stay > get out
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> Project 2 - Week 3 - Found Footage
I found stock footages of mother and daughter and did a collage work on things I found on the internet that relates back to the mother and daughter relationship ( a little too on the nose)
the background is a video i found on youtube, i decided to use flowers as my mom loves flowers.
"For some people, their mothers were their first heartbreak"
I will die your daughter
your mother was once a little girl too, she was someone else's daughter.
> Project 3- Week 6 Onwards- Ambience Colors
Class Notes ( 18 april 2024)
> ambient sounds
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> background music​
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> eric satie - musique D'Ameublement < furnishing music>
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) music to work by
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> promotes workplace productivity through music​
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muzak qualities
> low volume, repetition, simple, no breaks, no vocals, no surprises, fadeouts
> Yule Log- 1966 by Fred M. Thrower
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> played during x'mas so workers could go home for the holiday.
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[ Favorite song by Erik Satie, I listen to this every study time or to fall asleep !! First heard this song (weirdly) in a horror game. ]
> Music artist i found
>take care - agony
> slowcore
>i feel this was the new gen of ambience music found on the internet.
> Backgrounds / videos
> screen savers​
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> so computer screens do not burn through when left open, images had to be constantly moving.
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> Ambient Video definition – Jim Bizzocchi
> It should be visually engaging the first time you view it
> It shouldn’t require your attention at any time
> It should renew its engagement at whatever moment
you choose to return to viewing
> It should sustain visual pleasure over a great number of repeated viewings
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> artist and art mentions​ <in class>
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> Sam Taylor-Wood, A Little Death, 2002
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> Beckham Sleeping Sam Taylor-Wood
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> Gillian Wearing Sixty-Minute Silence 1996 video installation 60 minutes,
dimensions variable
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> sulie- you have no enemies
> this song i felt may have voices, however just like Take Care's, the voices are reverbed that its into the sound rather than an identifiable label, it becomes white even, adding ambience and scene.
> Yves Tumor - limerence
> repition of sound
> loop
> calming and soothing
> easy to get lost in.
> a sound track from a horror game, Silent Hill
> repeition sound that could go in loops if spliced from the middle
> ominous
> low keys
> Week 7- Gallery Visit
click it!!! download it!!!
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> Week 8- Digital Materlism
Takeshi MurataMonster Movie (2005)
> Murata sourced video from the 1981 B-movie Caveman and used data moshing technique to produce the digital visual flow.
Sebastian Schmieg
Search by Image, Recursively (2011)
> A video that uses the algorithm of Google image search as the material and the subject.
> 4min preview starting with a transparent png (400×225px)2951 images, 12fps
Jake ElwesThe Zizi Show (2020-23)
> deep faked drag queens
> use likeness with permission
Rosa Menkman
Pique Nique pour les Inconnues (2019)"
> In Pique Nique pour les Inconnues, Menkman considers the ways in which the history of technology has been defined by standardization, in particular through the use of color test cards for image processing. The work presents les Inconnues - unknown women whose images are linked to the history of image processing. In this work, test cards, bots, virtual assistants, stock photos and others find a voice, but fail to recover their personhood. As Menkman states, 'Engineers used these female objects to evaluate the quality of image processing, rendering and composition of architecture and to make these latent spaces more amicable. While these women seem to be able to prolong their existence for as long as the (digital) realms will copy and reuse them, most of them have lost their name and identity.' In this work, the viewer is haunted by the familiarity of these digital ghosts, while at the same time, privy to an uncanny experience when the historically mute images speak for the first time."
FINAL PROJECT
> consume
> consume
> consume
> consume
> consume
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Consumerism
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Consumerism is the theory that individuals who consume goods and services in large quantities will be better off. Some economists believe that consumer spending stimulates production and economic growth. Economists view consumption as about fulfilling biological needs & wants based on maximizing utility.
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Consumerism Explained: Definition, Economic Impact, Pros & Cons
> Consume
I consume the food as i consume my content for the day
I eat my awareness and fill my brain with useless news on people that don’t impact my life, like a junk food to my stomach, but it gives me so much dopamine
The Vision _ â–¡ x
Overwhelming compilation channel 1
Clearer narrative channel 2
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Fast speed time playback of the compilation
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Ai voice
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Narrates the typing above me
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Word “Consume” plays in the background in loop
Sound???
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slurping eating sounds
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Burp
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Faint sounds of the speed up vids
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> like a sports car speeding by fast
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Pauses of silence for the faint sound
> Everyone can be a celebrity
> Consumerism
> Consume content
> Contents
> I blame Ellen DeGeneres
> Content
> Why the f*ck do i know about a doctor from LA
> Getting sued by his kids as if its world news
> Youtube
> Consume
> Youtube has become so boring
> Its no longer funny
> I can no longer find videos
> to eat my instant noodles to
> How will i find entertainment
> as i multitask eating and consuming
> Im consuming
> Consume
> This food and this content
> I got alot to consume
> I blame jimmy fallon
> I need to know
> I need to know why is jojo siwa
> cancelled
> What did James Charles do again?
> Why do i know their names
> Do they know mine
> Why do i know their life
> Do they know mine?
> Who are they even
> Consume
> Consume
> Consume
> Consume
> Consume
> Who is Tara Yummy
> Ive never watched her
> But why do i know how she look,
> whose her friends,
> where does she stay?
> Why do i know someone that does know me
> Why are you asking me
> if i know these two celebrities broken up
> Why should i care
> Who are they
> A family vlog?
> A relationship couple content creators
> Content creators
> Everyone can be a content creator
> Is that even a job
> A full-time job?
> Makes sense
> Not really
> But still
> WE consume
> Consume
> Oh they cheated on each other
> before their wedding
> I blame charlie demilo
> Why do i know this information
> Consume
> Consume
> Consume
> Scroll
> Click
> Consume
> I dont know them, they dont know me
> So why do i know so much
> About
> whats happening in
> While i sit on my bed
> While i consume my lunch on my bed table
> Why do i know
> So much
> About people
> Ive never met before
> People ive never heard before
> Consume
> Everyone can be a celebrity these days
> I blame ellen and jimmy
> . . .
> . . .
> . . .
> my food is now cold
> Its addicting
> I cant get enough of it
> I need to consume more
> I am a glutton
> I keep
> Consuming
Consuming isnt just about food anymore, its about the digital realm to the chemicals, we eat and get addicted, we take and we get addicted. Food and videos now go hand in hand with our daily life. We watch tv before youtube got popular, the temptation to eat infront of the tv with your grandmother or mother, maybe you did get that experience. We eat and we consume the things we are given, the infos we feed off. <Like a jester in the palace dinner, entertaining the kings and queens as they feast.>
> live to eat
> eat to live
Do we consume cause we need it or do we consume cause we want to
Is this our daily bread
>So like…
> I was eating and looking up videos on youtube
> i realised…
> youtbe has gotten so boring
> there wasnt much i could watch and eat with
> it wasnt the same as when i was 13,16,18,19,20 anymore…
> its now so boring
> same contents different creators
> so many of the works were just repeats of internet news
> nothing worth knowing
> yet i found myself clicking it
> cause i still needed to consume some kind of content
> any kind
> so i clicked it and started eating my meal
> oddly enough…
> i cant eat without a video or entertainment anymore
> i need to multitask to eat
> i need something to let me autopilot
> and then it hit me
>why am i watching this video on a doctor thats getting sued by his kids
> who even is he and why is he sponsored by g fue
> can everyone be a celebrity now?
> and suddenly, another thing hit me
> i am so conditioned
> to eat
> and to watch a video
> what am i even doing?
Core Core
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sub- genres of aesthics and themes
etc: hopecore, girlcore, womencore.
just easier to find things online, especially video compilations. word core is used a lot online.
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common cores i look up for
- weirdcore
-dreamcore
-hope core
-girlcore
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brainrot...
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why is there so many terms for everything, does adding core into words dilute the value of the found footages?
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older people before gen z would think so i would assume but didn't they also use termalogies that weren't used by the generation before them? to sub categories things around them as well?
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aesthetic I'm interested in exploring...
bitmaps and old school game look
- I've done different forms of gaming point of view, and I want to explore a little more with another perspective and editing.
reusing old photobooth.
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i grew up a lot on internet culture.
Chronically Online, is a term used in this era of 2020s, describing someone who excessively uses the internet and indulges in internet culture.
i grew up "raised" by the internet, from internet forums to memes online. because of this i believe my personality was built upon by it, opinions and aesthetics.
gaming go hands in hands with internet culture, forums building a community through common interest, many gamers are nerds that are introverts, so behind the screen, it becomes comforting. my styles of videos brings back old 1990s to early 2000s as that was the era i was taught even tho i was born in 2000s, we didn't have much growing up so it was always 10 years behind time with the world, especially being raised by brothers a decade older, i grew up seeing their perspective while also the genz cultures. it becomes interwined.
artist refs
> Learning to edit in after effect
-this is embarrassing i don't know how to export videos in after effects, but now here we are.
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PLAN_
Some layout plans for the full video
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> just 4 channel compilation.
> bottom text
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> a room in 2D
> bottom text
> text works on one half (left)
>video compilation (right)
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> VR ROOM
> walls covered in videos
> table and a cup of noodle in the middle
2 and 3 idea combined
> 2d video work with perspective added into it
> add table and noodle
> bottom have text
> black and white
> or colored high saturation
> have not fully decided but
> we try
> b/w = calm?
> saturated = overwhelming
I realised we arent use to low res videos as much as we were used to. We grew up watching 480p but now we get overwhelmed when pixels pixlate we no longer click the 720p, we automatically go for the hd res. technology has really updated us.
On Premiere Pro
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> I downloaded 41 videos from my watch history on YouTube
> videos I watch or pass by and have been curious to click on before
> I hate how they look
> high saturation.
> I compiled them into one long video and adjusted the speed/duration of the whole video.
> From 3 hours to 9 mins
> I had to cut off some parts of the clips
> It was too long even when it was sped up.
> The video was going on for too long
> I'm bored of it now.
> Next clip.
> Cut up the 9 mins into (3) 3 mins pieces for each surface area except floor.
> too high pitch muting this for now
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> Assembling the room.
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> Got a grid to make the corner of the room.
> Used a random screenshot as a ruler to transform the video to fit the perspective using the basic 3D tool.
> first-time using this tool.
> played with scale, distance, adjustment.
> Put all three chopped parts onto the walls and ceiling.
> The ceiling was the hardest part to adjust and make it realistic.
> Sad the video compilation on the ceiling can't be seen.
> had to leave space at the bottom for the text box.
> exported into mp.4 to put into After Effect
After Effects Time
> Place exported cube raw video in
> Added effects/ layers for this bitmap look
> noise and threshold.
> Added rectangle box for text box
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Text Box
> Copy pasted from my notes
> full one text, no sections.
>Got to learn script now.
> Used this two main tutorial to make my texts move and look like its being written in real-time
> Coding/ dialogue feels
> In the end I combined both scripts
> typewriter for it to look smoother typing
> hacker tutorial had the texts scrolling up
> I combined both as it was from a place of laziness to script each line.
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> i had so much issues with this as the scripts would sometimes be conflicted and the cropping had a limit so i had a new idea to change the composition settings to 1290 x 100 to make a long bar for the text.
> This way i it would move up to the next line on its own and crop out before and after lines
> only appearing like a dialogue speaking in real time.
> it took me 2 days to understand after effects and scripts <only on this, nothing else honestly>
Back on premiere pro
Text-to-speech effect
> i wanted a female AI voice over for the reading of my dialogues.
> there was a specific AI voice i wanted and she was very popular on tiktok during covid.
> it was a voice that stayed however i couldn't find it anymore
> Ai voice generators weren't hitting it right.
> there was no more siri voice changers or text to speech.
> the original siri voice is no longer on iPhone.
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> iPhone text-to-speech acessablitiy
> recorded a few takes
> lines needed to be spread for it to speak slower, or pause longer.
> some words were merging as the AI tries to form a full natural sentence.
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> added the text and voice over to sequence
> both the voice over and text was too fast
> they were not in sync.
> slowing the texts speed made it look unnatural.
> slowed down the voice over.
> i refuse to cut the clip each time there is a new line.
>ill just cute the voice over when it is off sync.
> sliced each pauses, placing it on delay timing of the typing so its more realistic an logicalooking.
> could now play with more pauses with this method.
> added freeze frames as well.
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> played around with audio of the voice over, decided i like the calmer slow sound.
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> did not add voice over for the last line,
felt it was nicer that way.
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Final set up
> TV on the table, lamp, plant, and cold noodles
make it more homey
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> decided to showcase this work in a cold dark room (adding a lamp on the day of presentation and turning off the light), so it'll have a dark room ambience, like a found TV video.
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> Felt it would be nice if the video played on an old tv as it looked more analog.
> The old-school retro aesthetic video with an old tv made sense.
> I found it ironic that the video is about YouTube, being presented on an old tv that would have had to use cables in the past.
> similarity between channel surfing and browsing YouTube
> the new wave of technology and how we use it for our daily entertainment as we eat our food.
> tv dinner and just normal dinner now.
> cold noodles.
> Food's so cold now
> wanted it to be a replica of eating time and TV. consume my video please :>
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when I showed Claire this work on my laptop, I asked her if it was too long-winded, it was 1 minute and 43 seconds in.
> Lowkey, that was kind of embarrassing that the joke wrote itself - my attention span having deteriorated after the integration of technology into my daily life. I blame my younger self for playing video games ever since I was 8 on the family's Windows XP.
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readings
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
> https://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_8/mendoza_december2010.pdf
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1527476418810547