week ten

Hey Jenna,
In todays lesson it was all about video.
Although the videos at the start of the lessons, on the lecture were very weird, quite strange and I did not get the message about life in the 5 cycle piece. They were still good and well constructed.

My videos have had some dramas with them, as my dad accicdently deleted them off the camera. He was able to recover them from the camera but for some unknown reason they were not reading on the mac, so Jenna gave me a lesson on how to use final cut pro as i have this program at home and i will hopefully be able to edit them at home.

So this lesson using what video i have i have sat and played on the program learning how to use, i have used it before in high school so it was not to bad just needed a refresher lesson.

I plan to not be in my dance piece and have the girls do my piece in the studio and then have them do it again out in the car park. When presenting my piece i plan to have both playing at the same time. Showing a contrast between day and night. I plan on filming this on thursday and i plan to do some research on video art and in particular video art using dancers if i can find anything to get some new ideas.
I may have the girls do it at dfferent times, coming together at the chorus.

This final cu pro program is a little bit getting on my nerves because of the time it takes to render.
but hopefully it all works how i ahve planned.

have a good one
sarah

week eight

Hey Jenna,
So after a long two week break, which wasn't really a break as I was on teaching rounds. We are back into the swing of things at uni and in art class.
Todays class was all about video,
We were really lucky to have a presentation today that had a piece of work which was very old world old filmed it reminded me of a salv dore dali piece which was at his exhibition last year.
This was a good lead into our new topic of video digital art.
I unfortunately didn't read the unit guide and forgot to bring a dvd tape so i was not able to record anything but i was able to have play with the camera to see how it worked and what effects are on most cameras.
I am thinking from the videos we watched to day in class has given me the idea that video art does not have to make sense and does not have to a clear idea thrust upon the viewer.
I am thinking i will recored my feet pointing and stretched in bare foot and rising on to my toes and then film it with pointe shoes so i can bring that to class next week.
I also think it would be a cool idea to have one of my tiny tots feet be filmed so you can the the growth from first starting to when your a senior ballet dancer.
I drew out some ideas of where this could be taken i was thinking i would do int he dance studio and i need to decide whether or not to have music.
Have a great week!
Smiles
Sarah