GENRE:
Abstract
SUB GENRE:
ABSTRACT/EXPERIMENTAL
LOGLINE:
A young woman recollects an academic expedition camping at an uninhabited island.
SYNOPSIS:
Blotting fresh sweat beads from my forehead, takes me right back to the “red summer” of Horn Island. Initially, the idea of being immersed in endless white sandy beaches on Horn Island seemed really exciting. Comforted that for the next ten days my skin would be drenched in such a luxurious texture. I loved the refreshing and silky feeling of the sand on my bare skin as well as the clean ocean sent it embodies. Then, the very next day I felt sun burning down onto my freshly exposed skin, which resulted in pulsating red stripes alongside contrasting patches of smooth fair ivory skin. Later, that night when the breeze kicked up it felt chilly on to bare skin, like it is cold on the surface and under my sunburned it feels like I am literally radiating heat beneath the surface. To give you a visual image explain this feeling, I like a life sized Easy Bake Oven, cool on the outside and generating heat on the inside. The stinging pain that I was feeling is the actual wind hitting my blazing, blistered, red skin. These, affects were so painful for my tender skin it became unbearable, forcing me to retreat into my tent for the night. Finally, I can shield the discomfort; the wind and rain pounded my red tent until collapsed onto of my red skin.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sensory Detail 3
Descriptive Sensory Observation: Sanding Wood
The aroma of wood chips filled the room, as I sanded. With my right hand I began making quick, rigorous, circular movements on the surface of a piece of wood. The rough texture of sand paper feels dry and gritty and slowly begins to smooth the surface of my wood. After a while my hand felt raw, not only from the course texture of the sand paper but also, also from the itchy film of wood dust residue covering my hands, arms, and face. This fine residue was extremely uncomfortable and difficult to remove from my skin. However, my raw hands and itchy skin were annoying enough there was also a repetitive loud high pitch scratching sound produced from the grinding these two surfaces. Though, I periodically to a break from sanding to sweep my hand across the sanded surface to remove all the gritty dust from the wood’s surface so I could feel the actual smoothness of the wood. This made quite a relaxing long soft sweeping sound.
Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Observation
The first thing I would do to make a film about sanding wood is make audio recordings of the entire process and pair it with some of other action that does not really make any noise, such as sewing or knitting. Also, I think it could be interesting to pair the wood sanding audio with a really peaceful scene like the ocean tide coming in and out to see if this obnoxious sound could be transformed into something calming if paired with something “sold” on its relaxing abilities.
The aroma of wood chips filled the room, as I sanded. With my right hand I began making quick, rigorous, circular movements on the surface of a piece of wood. The rough texture of sand paper feels dry and gritty and slowly begins to smooth the surface of my wood. After a while my hand felt raw, not only from the course texture of the sand paper but also, also from the itchy film of wood dust residue covering my hands, arms, and face. This fine residue was extremely uncomfortable and difficult to remove from my skin. However, my raw hands and itchy skin were annoying enough there was also a repetitive loud high pitch scratching sound produced from the grinding these two surfaces. Though, I periodically to a break from sanding to sweep my hand across the sanded surface to remove all the gritty dust from the wood’s surface so I could feel the actual smoothness of the wood. This made quite a relaxing long soft sweeping sound.
Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Observation
The first thing I would do to make a film about sanding wood is make audio recordings of the entire process and pair it with some of other action that does not really make any noise, such as sewing or knitting. Also, I think it could be interesting to pair the wood sanding audio with a really peaceful scene like the ocean tide coming in and out to see if this obnoxious sound could be transformed into something calming if paired with something “sold” on its relaxing abilities.
Sensory Detail 2
Observed Experience: Gessoing Board
Gesso smells somewhat similar to a freshly painted room; while it is initially a little bit fumy it quickly subsides into a fresh clean scent. Brushing wet gesso onto my wooden cradle creates a soft swish sound; like to the sound a broom makes when moving across a wet floor. I sit, my left arm supporting my tired hovering body and staring face down at the mindless strokes I’m making with the brush; left to right, back and forth are the repetitive motions that my right hand stiffly performs. On hard the concrete floor, my right leg tucked in close to my body, I notice that my leg has become freckled with tiny bright white specks of gesso. The crusty feeling of dried chalky gesso flaking off my skin, especially from my hands feels powdery and uncomfortable.
Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Observation
I am not sure how I would go about creating a video utilizing descriptive sensory for gessoing a wooden cradle. This was kind of a crazy challenge to see if there is any way to create a video that is remotely interesting as well as sensory for this really boring task. The only idea I have is creating some kind of rigid documentary like script and set up to describe to the viewer how these senses are used even in such dull task.
Gesso smells somewhat similar to a freshly painted room; while it is initially a little bit fumy it quickly subsides into a fresh clean scent. Brushing wet gesso onto my wooden cradle creates a soft swish sound; like to the sound a broom makes when moving across a wet floor. I sit, my left arm supporting my tired hovering body and staring face down at the mindless strokes I’m making with the brush; left to right, back and forth are the repetitive motions that my right hand stiffly performs. On hard the concrete floor, my right leg tucked in close to my body, I notice that my leg has become freckled with tiny bright white specks of gesso. The crusty feeling of dried chalky gesso flaking off my skin, especially from my hands feels powdery and uncomfortable.
Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Observation
I am not sure how I would go about creating a video utilizing descriptive sensory for gessoing a wooden cradle. This was kind of a crazy challenge to see if there is any way to create a video that is remotely interesting as well as sensory for this really boring task. The only idea I have is creating some kind of rigid documentary like script and set up to describe to the viewer how these senses are used even in such dull task.
Sensory Detail 1
Sensory Experience: Memory
Initially, the idea of being immersed in endless white sandy beaches on Horn Island was quite exciting. Comforted that for the next ten days my skin would be drenched in such a luxurious texture. I loved the refreshing and silky feeling of the sand on my bare skin as well as the clean ocean sent it embodies. However, the very next day I felt sun burning down onto my freshly exposed skin, which resulted in pulsating red stripes alongside contrasting patches of smooth fair ivory skin. Later, that night when the breeze kicked up I began to feel as if invisible bees were stinging me, all over my skin. Realizing, the stinging pain that I was feeling was the sand in the wind hitting my blazing, blistered, red skin. However, these gusts of wind were the prelude to a major storm. Hard rain was further intensified by even heavier gusts of sandy wind. These, affects were so painful for my tender skin it became unbearable, forcing me to retreat into my tent for the night. Thinking, finally I can avoid the discomfort; until the wind and rain caused me red tent to collapse on my red skin.
Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Memory
I would shoot this experience focusing primarily on the color red to convey the sense of sun-blistered skin. I think to truly feel this discomfort of this memory I must make the viewer remember their worst sunburn, how their skin looked, felt, and burned. The striking contrast between the skin exposed to the sun versus the skin covered by some sort of clothing.
Initially, the idea of being immersed in endless white sandy beaches on Horn Island was quite exciting. Comforted that for the next ten days my skin would be drenched in such a luxurious texture. I loved the refreshing and silky feeling of the sand on my bare skin as well as the clean ocean sent it embodies. However, the very next day I felt sun burning down onto my freshly exposed skin, which resulted in pulsating red stripes alongside contrasting patches of smooth fair ivory skin. Later, that night when the breeze kicked up I began to feel as if invisible bees were stinging me, all over my skin. Realizing, the stinging pain that I was feeling was the sand in the wind hitting my blazing, blistered, red skin. However, these gusts of wind were the prelude to a major storm. Hard rain was further intensified by even heavier gusts of sandy wind. These, affects were so painful for my tender skin it became unbearable, forcing me to retreat into my tent for the night. Thinking, finally I can avoid the discomfort; until the wind and rain caused me red tent to collapse on my red skin.
Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Memory
I would shoot this experience focusing primarily on the color red to convey the sense of sun-blistered skin. I think to truly feel this discomfort of this memory I must make the viewer remember their worst sunburn, how their skin looked, felt, and burned. The striking contrast between the skin exposed to the sun versus the skin covered by some sort of clothing.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Video Write Up
During this process it was really strange to watch and hear myself repeat the same thing over and over again however, through this repetition my video became more and more natural with every attempt. My idea deals with the idea of being from small agriculture town in rural Alabama and longing to be somewhere more exciting and stimulating. Now, after moving to a city I realized that elements from my southern rural upbringing greatly affected not only the person I am now but also the way I interact and react to place.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sense of place..
I think a sense of place is basically just a person thoughts, feelings, and reactions to a place whether it be tangible or not. To be a person in a place is to be involved in a place or interacting with that place. People defiantly affect places physically such as pollution, construction, demolition, farming, ect.; however, people also create places in their minds. I think that there is little difference between a physical landscape and the places people create in their minds. I do not think that most people actually take a place for what it actually is I think that they create what they really want to see in their own minds. Place is a form of identity.
Definition of PLACE...
PLACE-
A particular portion of space definite or infinite.
Time and place.
A space for a person such as seat.
A spot or area used for a specific function.(Like worship, entertainment, sleep)
Any part or spot in a body or surface.
A habitat.
A function or duty. (Its not your place to do that.)
A position or function. (gold, silver, bronze)
A particular portion of space definite or infinite.
Time and place.
A space for a person such as seat.
A spot or area used for a specific function.(Like worship, entertainment, sleep)
Any part or spot in a body or surface.
A habitat.
A function or duty. (Its not your place to do that.)
A position or function. (gold, silver, bronze)
Place-Freewrite
Place, Home, Identity,Landscape
A Place that one might long to visit could be a place that another longs to escape.
Another way of thinking about place is position.. such as a person's place in the world or nitch. Also thier socio-economic status in society. Often place is identified with specificc people or animals like zebra, Africa or cow, farm. No matter how I think about place it is alwyas connected to people.
A Place that one might long to visit could be a place that another longs to escape.
Another way of thinking about place is position.. such as a person's place in the world or nitch. Also thier socio-economic status in society. Often place is identified with specificc people or animals like zebra, Africa or cow, farm. No matter how I think about place it is alwyas connected to people.
First try...
Amanda Ingram
One of my favorite artists is currently Alex Podesta this is a link to his website to check him out Alex Pdoesta
Also this is a photo of his latest work
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