Stop Motion Revisited

Final Project

As someone who doesn't really connect with digital mediums, with the exception of a camera, I was surprised at how much I embraced this project. I completely changed my idea after some research into video portraits. I realized that they can be so much more than just a documentary, which is what I was creating before with my housemother. I would like to still make a video of my housemother for my sorority, but it wasn't speaking to me in a creative way. Also it wasn't really pushing me to do experiment, which I did A LOT of for this video. For once I'm actually satisfied with a piece I've made for this class. Just the simple change in subject matter, slightly more experience, and genuine interest is what made this video come to life. Hopefully you enjoy it.

Draft 12/5

What were you trying to get a handle on?
What shots I need to make it more interesting.

What questions do you have for us?
If the audio is interesting, as in her story, or is it missing something?

Give us a sense of where you are going?
As of now I think I'm going to get some clips of the tree with the snow of them and see if they work in decently.






ACTUAL DRAFT/started over:

Performance Day

With working outside the majority's of the classes common mediums, performance day was awkward to say the least. Despite this awkwardness our class managed to handle and embrace performance day. As the presentations continued on it became exciting to see how different everyone revealed the shared stories. I'll admit I didn't really appreciate performance art until watching my classmates' pieces as well as performing my own. Overall the day was very insightful.
For my own piece I dressed like a little girl by putting my hair in pigtails and wearing a light pink shirt. Though these changes were small it helped in building up the performance. In additoin painting my nails a hot pink made the performance more natural and slightly less awkward. I'm actually slightly terrified of public speaking and my voice shakes often/I speak too fast. So my choice of performance worked well because I had room to say a lot of "umms". Practicing ahead of time helped, but I was still nervous during the piece.
One of my favorite pieces from performance day was Melania's and Isabel's pieces. Melania's use of various mediums for her pieces was creative and useful. Also Isabel's interpretation of Liv's story was interesting. The pieces throughout the day were all exciting to watch.

Video Portrait:Shelly Winters, House Mother

Draft Video Portrait

Nina Katchadourian Response

"I just have to get through all these uuummmmm's....."This is the most dreadful, repeated parts of my day. Whenever someone, especially one who is talking in front of an audience, says 'ummmmm' every other word drives me nuts. To help distract me from how utterly annoyed I am by these moments I took sharpie's of various colors and made a small line depending of how long the 'ummm' is. By using various colors it kept me focused on connecting them without repeating a color. The shape which forms is of it's own being and continues to grow with all the dreadful noises.