Monday, March 15, 2010

Ideas for 48 hour video race

My initial ideas are to create some kind of claymation, stop motion, cut-out animation type thing and take pictures of it with a still camera. This seems a little tame but always wanted to make a film in this medium but I usually get distracted from actually doing it. If I can think of a more interesting medium by which to capture the images I may reconsider but i ccan't really think of anything. Nothing incredibly interetsting anyway. I could always scan images directly onto my printer. I would certainly need to do a test run before hand because that could be really difficult and infesible. But my plan for the time being is to use a still camera and make the subject matter, the materials, etc. in front of the camera really interesting. I've never really done any kind f animation before so I feel very drawn to doing this as a stop motion kind of thing and since this film would have a time limit I would have to push myself, my attention span, my patience in a big way and wouldn't be able to stop whenever I got bored. Boredom is a curse for artists, and for appreciators of art. If you never give something your full attention because it doesn't meet you halfway and walk away from it saying it sucked, that it was boring and slow, you'll only experience about 5% of the art in the world, and all of that will be thr formulted recycled crap that they know you'll like because you liked the exact same thing last year under a different title. Also, people who demand that the art they intake fulfill certain requiremtents are pompous assholes. Art is not a personal thrill ride, it is a powerful rhetorical medium and if you aren't open to experience art you haven't experienced before, to feel things you don't particularly want to feel, to allow the artist to create a story, images, a message, emotions, ideas then the amount of what you'l feel, experience, and learn from art is practically nothing except those tiny little thrills you already know you want. This relegates art to a position no better than pornography, in one degree or another. And, now that that side note is over, I hope that this porject will cure some of my boredom in the animation process and open me up to new methods of creation that are not limited by my American, facebook-generation attention span.

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