Corruption of the Damned.. without the corruption or the damned...

This film was very time consuming due to not knowing (and still not sure) of how to save my progress to go back and work on it more.  So I ended up recreating this 4 times.  However, redoing it so many times led me to discover cool new tools and ways to express the style that George Kuchar shot in.  Finding the time where my friends and I were all available was difficult at first as well.  I want to thank them though for helping me out with shooting!! 

Some things I am proud of in this film are the spliced pieces I made using the "blade" tool in order to create the 60s style of choppiness.  Some frames would be skipped in earlier media and I was happy to create some of that effect on my own.  Although, I wish I could have added more of that choppy look in the beginning.

I also enjoy the audio use.  I chopped up the original audio and placed it in the appropriate places when a new scene appears.  I am happy with the mood each part of the audio I chose creates.  I am also happy with the Charriots of Fire audio I added.

I came up with the name to clarify that I don't nearly capture any of the concepts Kuchar did; it merely would have been too long and weird of a film.  Just this mini scene was already pushing the time limit we had.

Anyways, here is my piece, "Corruption of the Damned... without the corruption or the damned", based off of George Kuchar's "Corruption of the Damned".

It was slow goings for me at first.  The hardest part so far is simply timing when my friends can go out and film with me.  I finally had a day to shoot a few clips, which I might go back and redo.  But so far I know exactly what I want to shoot, I have some clips, an understanding of the audio and editing I want to use, and a mini narrative I pulled from the hour film I chose.  Here are just a few of my edits so far.  I haven't compiled anything together yet and the audio is not what it will be (I just chose a random song from youtube to cover the random audio going on while filming), but I feel it'll be smooth sailing from here on out due to my extensive brainstorming.

Reading 2 Questions:

Did the creation of media as an art act as a catalyst for other arts (because of the competition) or did it temporarily slow their progress (because of the obsession with television and other medias)?

Are films that were produced mainly for product sale or mass consumption equally as much of an art as those created mainly for artistic purposes; or do medias created solely for artistic purposes hold more values conceptually?  Examples to discuss would be movies such as Pan's Labyrinth, Life is Beautiful, and Kill Bill vs. digital medias such as an exhibit called "Bloom" in the Nevada Art Museum that projects seismic activity in the form of playful, colorful, and popping circles, or "blooms"?

http://www.ubu.com/film/kuchar_corruption.html

I chose "Corruption of the Damned" by George Kuchar because of the random scenes he creates.  I wanted a video that I have a lot to work with and found that in his piece.  The idea would be fun to play with as well!

Animations with Sound

 Finding sounds to use was not difficult at all because we chose to go with coordinating the actions with the sounds as they'd be in real life... or at least most of it. Adding our own recording voices was fun.  The most difficult part was figuring out how to delete the movie track, but after some attempts we figured it out.

Our theme was the reality and fantasy side of humans consuming resources.  Now that we added motion to the two sides of the diptych, we developed a more humorous approach rather than a serious, political approach.  The jumping movements and display of life and death are not as serious as they was before.

Reading One: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Question One:  Section III:  Is the article saying any form of reproduction will distort the aura of an image perceived in person?  And is there any form of reproduction that could capture the depth exactly as is, with three dimensional technology now?

Question Two:  Section IV:  Couldn't the function of reproducing a work of art merely be considered as a way to project to the world the message that piece is portraying instead of "the total function [being] reversed..." from ritual to politics, as the article says?