Making the mould for the ball.

Covered my excercise ball with clingfilm then covered half the ball with papier mache to create a half dome shape. I will repeat this then join the halves to make a ball. This will represent an eye ball for us to project on to.

Undone ribbon

This is one of my favorite parts of the video it is to signify the feeling of being undone or everthing going wrong. When we filmed the ribbon it was quite hard to make sure the ribbon did'nt pull too fast or too slow and stayed central.

Thoughs of projecting the video on to a ball shape.

We have completed our video and have started finding the sounds to go with it. Parts of the video may change as each time we watch it we have made some changes. Maybe putting sound to it may make us change it again! The idea of projecting it on to a ball shape is taking some thought as we are not sure what the out come of this will be. We are taking the excercise ball and making a papier mache mould and putting two halves together like an easter egg to make a ball. This then will be light enough to suspend from the ceiling with fishing wire if we want to and if the ceiling is low enough. Had an idea of projecting two videos at the ball from opposite sides so that the ball was covered in images. Again not sure this would work because of two bright lights shining at each other with just the ball in between.

Sleepwalking

This part of the video was inspired by Gary Hill 'The Crux'. He strapped video cameras to his body which was what i thought of doing early on to get unusual camers angles. I filmed my feet walking and i think it works well in the theme as it gives a feeling of sleepwalking.

Video so far without sound

Tree

The Barn

Drugs don't work.

More minutes on the Video.

We have now completed 3 minutes of video. I am going to embed some of the raw footage used so far. We are useing a combination of our own videos, stills and Youtube excerts. The video starts with a mask face then closes into the eye and effects give the illusion of entering the brain where your mind plays games. We have compiled snapshots of images that the brain maybe thinking about or have in its memory banks. We are hoping to give the idea that when we are thinking the brain conjures up many images that often have nothing to do with what we should be concentrating on.

Brain Video

Video found on YouTube that shows electric pulses flowing down veins. This maybe usefull as an effect on our video.

Mask video

Video of a festival mask. At the moment this is the beginning of our video. We have made it black and white and old 'looking' film to create an eerie atmosphere.

Getting it together

Worked on our video yesterday. Converting the video files to Mp4 worked so we were able to use some footage taken with the Handycam. We spent a good five hours working on IMovies and managed to produce one minuet of video that we were fairly happy with! This is going to take much longer than we thought. Anyway we seem to have agreed on which direction the film needs to be going so we are collecting more footage today to work with tomorrow.

Progress

Went into college to meet with Ally and Robyn. We tried to download our videos and stills on to the mac.Robyns and Allys worked ok but the videos i had on my video camera just would not load up. I had burnt them onto a DVD, this didnt work, we then tried a CD rewriter and a USB Stick, these didnt work. Maybe it didnt like the format of the files so i have now converted them to MP4. We will try again tomorrow.

Back in the land of the living!

I have never had 'real flu' and i dont want it ever again! At last i am in the world of the living! Met with Ally and Robyn to discuss our ideas so far and it seems we have come to some similar ideas seperatly. Before christmas we talked about working together on this project and our research has come together to form the beginnings of the video. We are all interested in human emotions and like the 'Minds Eye' idea as a basis to work. We are now looking for footage and sound to make our video.

Lightening

Lightening effects maybe interesting projected on to the ball to suggest the idea of brainwaves.

Lightening

Music wuth the bubble effect

If you watch the Oil Lamp video ignore the christmas music that plays although it does sort of go with the bubble movement! That was the sound that came on the television while filming. I like the bubble effect, it could look good projected on to the ball with water sounds.

Oil Lamp Effect

More thoughts for the new year.

Well its new year and through all the celebrations my 'video ideas' kept creeping into my mind. I have been looking for sounds such as heartbeats, bubbles, water,breathing etc(Natural sounds that would be inside the body.)Been fiming the oil lamp that gives lovely flowing bubbles that look similar to blood.So will put this on my blog soon.