Final piece

I started my idea from wires and electric equipment. Electric equipment such as computers and televisions used to have a lot of wires, and it looks really messy when the number of wires becomes large. However, as far as those wires are well connected, the equipment works well so that people who use the equipment may not get the feeling of messy even it looks messy. What I want to express is that something disordered might be in order in another aspect. This is interesting because this is a harmony between two totally different feelings. We could feel this kind of harmony in our common life like messy cloud in the neat, blue sky. We would feel comfortable even if those two kind of opposite elements goes together.  

I tried to make a video with two different feelings and combine it with some sound effect but iphone is really not a good tool for making a video. I am not able to make the video I want, so I change my idea about the final piece again. 

I come up with an idea when I was trying to redo my Micro Project 5. I used the effect of mosaic in MP5 and I do like the idea of mosaic although that makes my MP5 a failure project. I like the feeling of those small segments in the picture. In my opinion, those segments are caused by some barriers, and these barriers do not look weird in the picture. We do not think those barriers look weird because we do not notice them. They exists in the picture and divide the picture in some segments in harmony. 

I took two sets of pictures to express those barriers in our life. The first sets of pictures are photos of a tree in from of my dorm. I put a piece of rice paper in front of my camera and took the first picture. One can barely recognize that as a tree. Then I took the second picture with the barrier of window-blinds. The tree is more clear now. I took the third picture with the barrier of window and the barriers become less and less. The last picture is my favorite. I took it with the barrier of screen window and the result is pretty close to I said. The barriers exists in harmony. 

The second set are pictures of trees. I choose those trees in south oval because I could take iron fence into the picture as well. However, I choose light as barrier instead of iron fence because I want to tell that we sometimes do not notice the real barriers in the pictures. At first, I choose the same angle for all four pictures and all those pictures have the angle of picture two. But the barriers of light is not that obvious in that angle for the last picture. So I change the angle for my last picture and generate that picture in the final piece. Since the angle of the last picture changes, I change the angles of rest three  pictures as well. Among these four pictures ,the last picture is my favorite because I do take light into the picture and make this invisible barrier visible. Besides, the audience may not be able to find out light is the real barrier with the last picture.


Set One

Set Two

Failure project

     The biggest failure in this semester is probably my micro project 4. I did not take an earphone with me in class so I could not get what exactly the track sounds like during the process of making it. Later I find that the effect in the trace is so loud that sounds really noisy. I failed to create a feeling of slender by giving the track to my friends. Now I realize that I should make sure what a sound track sounds like when making it. Sound tracks are different from the visual works. One cannot interpret how a sound track is by treating them as visual works. We cannot “see” how a sound track is.

     My biggest success in this semester is the micro project 5. At the very beginning of making the micro project 5, I was thinking of take a series of pictures of steam after watching the video about river in class. This is because the steam fit the word “split” well. However, I could not find any small steams near the campus area, so I change my object from steam to branch in the end. The use of Andreamosaic is a success to me. It is my first time to use this software and the effect is really pleasant. The mosaic effect in the final piece does give my friends a feeling of “split” and I am satisfied with this work as well.

     If I could redo one project, I would redo the micro project 4. I choose the micro project 4 because I know which point is not good enough in my previous work. I would use an earphone for sure and search for some more sound effect in the Internet if I could do this project again. I would also show my sound track to my friends before uploading to make sure the audience do receive a feeling of slender through the project.  

MP5

      When hearing the word “hook”, the first object I come up with is the branch. Since we need to choose an object in our daily life, I choose the tree in front of my dorm that I would see every day. The photo of a tree does fit the word “split” because the tree has a lot of branches. However, I don’t think it is “split” enough. So I pick up 12 photos of different branches on the Internet, and put these 12 pictures together by AndreaMosaic software to form the photo I took. The result is good and I do feel the word “split” from the final piece. The pictures I picked from the Internet are in the file added to carmen.