Projected Visuals - Artwork I could use and experiments

Artwork I could use for my video to represent power

Leonardo da Vinci, Battaglia di Anghiara

 

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo, Moses

I edited this image because the lines down the left hand side were too distracting and I wanted to change the levels to make the sculpture stand out more.

Silhouette with falling money background

I have looked at ways of doing this and found a solution that is quite simple. I found a video tutorial that showed me how to do the green screen technique. I will take a photo of someone in a suit, use Photoshop to edit the figure into a silhouette with coloured tie and sunglasses. Add the green colour to the background which I simply found online, import it into Premiere Pro, add my video of the money as the layer underneath and remove the green from the image.

This is the tutorial I found which was very helpful.

Test

I tested this out using images I found online to see if this works.

Green screen colour.

I added these silhouettes from the internet onto the colour using Photoshop.

This is the image I used as the background layer for this test.

Imported into Premiere Pro.

Used the 'Chroma Key' on Video effects to cut out the green.

John Hedgecoe

I liked this piece of work showing an image inside a silhouette as its like the precious moments of that person; their memories or what they are dreaming of. From this I thought of film playing within a silhouette such as lights.

Experimental video filming close ups of lights

I have taken photographs of my brother by the window, I have set a slower shutter speed and zoomed in and out whilst it was capturing the image to achieve this abstract look. I love the way the light has distorted the figure creating some interesting shapes.

Experiment with lights and silhouette

Experiment with lights and silhouette 2

Painting and sculpture in silhoutte idea

Proposal

In this project I have gone for an abstract theme focusing on dreams, success, power and money. There are a range of different styles and techniques in my video such as green screen work, blending video layers, photography, time lapses and silhouettes. I focused on making something that is artistic and creative. Showing something that’s visually interesting and engaging. There is no clear narrative to my video and no clear characters. I wanted to make it seem like a series of abstract visuals in a dream that represent different things such as success, power and moving forwards in life. I wanted it to be different than what most rap videos are about and not showing anything about gang culture.

Projected Visuals project

Notes

Interesting visuals

No story or narrative

Possible multi-projections

Experimental

Jump cuts

Rap music - 14 tracks to choose from

3-6 minute tracks

Don't follow the track specifically

I have found this project really hard and its taken me a while to come up with ideas, the fact we can't really create something with any narrative makes it hard to plan. I thought this is a hard project for film and would be better as an animation but I am going to see what I can create with film. I have gone for a theme based on dreams, creating something abstract but relates to dreams of success and power. I want to include business and con-men as this relates to money which most of the songs are about. 

Mind map

Moodboard

Rough ideas

Inspirational images:

Escher, Eye

I was inspired by this piece of work because I find it really powerful showing you what the person sees and how they feel. It's like the window to the soul, and from this I wanted to create an extreme close up of an eye and layer a car wheel over the iris. This piece of work shows death by the skull but if I show a wheel moving from the iris I am representing moving forwards and being successful.

Star Trails

I want to try and create a time lapse of the stars moving across the night sky and I was inspired a while ago when I saw a star trail image on BBC's 'Stargazing Live'. I have found a couple of star trail images online. I find the work facinating as it shows how the world is turning. The images remind me of the movement and power from the brushstrokes of Van Gogh's paintings.

Zoltán Bánfalvy

Andrew Stawarz

Inspirational videos:

Hustle - TV series opening credits

I love the animation for this and I want to use Photoshop to create a silhouette man in a suit similar to this. I thought the simplicity works well only showing the tie, shirt and sunglasses.

Time-lapse of night sky

I find this work incredible and I would love to create a time-lapse of the stars going across the night sky. I have been looking up how to do this on the internet and found tutorials which tell you how its done with a DSLR, like what settings it needs to be on. My brother has one of these and I will need his help to try and create this work, it involves taking photos all through the night.

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Kanye West - Power

I like the style of a renaissance painting representing heaven and power. I would like to find a few paintings like this which I can layer some of my own film on to represent power.

Storyboards

Idea 1

Idea 2

Although this idea of layering the video will be quite hard I think it would look really interesting. I would just have to line the images up right to work with the shapes, colours etc and set one of the video's opacity down.

Idea 3