Saturday, August 29, 2009

Work, Rest & Play



A video trypdich made from archival footage of people at work, rest and play. A comment on technology.

"This is the first in a series of films using documentary, industrial and educational film footage from the Prelinger Archive and The Internet Archive. The film explores the theme of technology, showing how the future can be edited and manipulated through advances in computer science. As the narrative in the film says "The art of computer graphics is only in its infancy yet it is already stimulating creative thought in far out areas where research is likely to get complex and unwieldy". Commissioned by Lovebytes http://www.ubu.com/film/plu_work.html

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Blinking Plunger Test

'The Family, Leisure and Recreation'

The New Zealand Ministry of Recreation and Sport defines "leisure" as "an attitude and an experience encompassing a myriad of feelings which contribute to well-being" while "recreation" is defined as "a freely chosen activity done in free time". Those studies which have distinguished between the two terms have tended to use "leisure" when writing about time spent in informal relaxing at home, and "recreation" for time spent outside the home engaged in activities.

Research on family leisure and recreation falls broadly into the following categories: the family life cycle, social class, socialisation, family authority, and family cohesiveness. The first four of these deal mainly with the effect on the family on leisure while the last is concerned with the effect of leisure on the family.

There are three amin influences on an individual:
Work, Family, Leisure

Among young single people the greatest emphasis is given to physical recreation. For women this generally changes swiftly at marriage to an interest in home based crafts, hobbies, television watching and social life. The change for men, from physical recreation to television watching is more gradual but is accelerated by the birth of the first chikd. Children appear to have a much greater influence on their mothers' recreation than on their fathers'.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Stop motion for critique week 4

Critique Comments

-The movements give the objects personality
-The use of clay objects in the real world is a bit strange
-Feels like the first time I've done stop-motion (probably because it is)
-Need to make a decision between using real or using clay objects, what would this mean?
-When do the objects come alive and take form? There is no time frame in this video, is it late at night when everyone has gone to bed?
-All objects are on the same scale, the drawers are as big as the iron etc, no heirarchy
-I have created my own world of original objects
-Someone thought of 'The Gollum' - an old German movie and silent film?
-There is a one liner punch line
-Not getting the 'night time' feeling
-Maybe the tv is off?
-Movement of the actual objects would be more interesting
-Chris Know - early music videos
-What about sound? Maybe laid back music? But this might stop the imagination of the viewer


I have to decide whether I want to use the real objects or use little models of the objects. At the moment I am thinking I will use the real objects, I think it will be an interesting challenge to animate inanimate household objects and give them personality.