Restoration: British Virgin Islands ~ Paradise, The Mermaid's Chair

Final Documentation ~ The Human Condition ~ Adventure and Restoration

FINAL DOCUMENTATION

This project turned out exactly as I meant it to. Since I have a video distribution channel through youtube, I was able to upload it and embed it into my chronicled blog.

The first step to this media project had to do with choosing the images. It was all synchronized with the duration of the music. I selected photography pictures from my travels and fashioned them into video I was able to put text over. After I knew what images were going to go into the video bar, I gave thought to the order of the images. As soon as I knew how many would expand the timeline, I had 18 different travel locations as video clips.

When I knew what images would go into this, I put them in a thoughtful order. The typography captions and text statements were something entirely separate. I collected passages that people have said about things such as: adventure, scripture, love, dreams, and spirit. Once I had 18 different sayings I put those into a thoughtful order as well. Then I knew what text captions went with what images.

As the videography was in order I began putting text onto the video images. These images where pulled from Ireland, The Virgin Islands, Alaska, and home; Bandon Oregon. As the text were rendering the whole project began to take shape. However, some of the text captions were hard to read due to the white background for certain images. I resolved this by putting 3 to 4 drop-shadows around the words, each of their own angle. This made the typography blend with the video but it also helped the words to stand out so they are easy to read.

I didn't know how to scale a section of footage until this class. Once Robert helped me learn that technique I was able to put motion into my imagery. This wasn't anything I knew how to do before class. But after having done this to the video in the timeline, I changed the direction of the camera movement according to the content of the scenes. Some zoomed in, some zoomed out. They all were motioned in differing directions. I thought it had a subtle flow to it because supposing I didn't know how to make any motion at all - it would have been dull. I also centered the text and typography in different places for the different images.

The purpose of this video is to illustrate the human condition. It is also a personal product that came from things I have seen and felt while I went into the world. If it was easy to travel in an often constant way, I would collect fresh photography so I came do another project similar to this. I think it is a very deep beautiful peice of media. It is for a universal audience. Anyone can listen to it because it is simulated with a gental instrumental.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

British Virgin Islands ~ Paradise, The Mermaid's Chair

Tir Na nOg is a Celtic Realm that is also known as The Land of Eternal Youth. In Tir na nOg, day never turns to night and love never turns to sorrow. This montage I made was of Ireland and the Virgin Islands. It is a digital piece of media that is a unique approach to videography. It combines messages with video shots. Some of the messages are musical references and Native American Proverbs. The clips that was of the British Virgin Islands with the Caption, "Fear is not the end of this" is from the song 'I Alone.' What I like so much about this, is that it reveals random clips of realities that make is seem dreamy. I like that it is a surreal media record of unexpected things that make interpreted sense to each other. Things that derive from Ireland and the Virgin Islands.