When making a collage I don't think I put a bunch of thought into it. One reason is because it was about me. Its always easy for me to talk about myself although it always takes some thinking I still know what my main strengths and weaknesses are. I think when making the collage the art portion comes into play when we take so many random things and bring them together as one. I would say that a collage is a type of Dada art. In my collage I think I took the most time on putting the letters together for the titles on both sides. I like text and not just text or font that you see on many computer software but creative font or unique font. When I took the font out of the magazine I wanted to mix and match them and that is what a collage allow me to do.
When it came to the video I felt like this was much different than making a collage. Because we were only able to use the video that we were given it was harder to add and mix many different things like we were able to do with using different magazines. The video also was difficult to use because it was so old. When we thing of technology and the modern way of editing we hardly think of black and white unless it is a filter or an effect. With the video being so old it did make it much harder to come up with a concrete idea. After doing peer critics I did see that all of my classmates ended up coming up with great ideas from the video that many of us felt was old and hard to work with.
I also felt very confined while working with the video compared to the physical collage. The physical collage held many possibilities, and we could pull from infinite sources. I especially found the sound hard to work with from the video piece, that was an added challenge that is not present in physical art.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the footage we worked with was difficult because there was little interesting sound to work with. The topic and quality was also different from what I was expectting to work with. I enjoyed your take on the appropriation, taking it from a music approach. I felt you did great with beat and certain parts of your video was amusing, such as the "dance" parts.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even consider using text in my collage. That would have definitely been a interesting aspect to tap into, conceptually and aesthetically. I'm kind of bummed that we didn't really present our collages, would've been cool to see what we all came up with.
ReplyDeletespeaking on the difficulty of the given footage, i feel as though it might of worked to our benefits that it was as old as it was. first off, its in the public domain, and secondly i think that we ended up with a far wider variety of results than i feel we would have with somthign fare more up to date. i for one ended up doing something completely out of my usual because of how bad the footage was.
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