| Project 09: Drawing, Tracing (Routine/Chance/Trap) - DUE on Wednesday October 31st, 11:59pm |
| Create a video using visual/technical solutions that involve drawing/tracing/rotoscoping. You can look at the Impactist piece Tidepool to start to get some ideas. Think about some of the things below: Routine/Break-the-Routine, Chance, Trap. Use these ideas as the foundation for the content of your piece. And, always remember, if your form can reflect or embody the content of your work, the impact of what you make will be even greater. |
| Choose and Work With One (or more) of These Ideas |
| A. ROUTINE - BREAK THE ROUTINE It seems to me that one of art's purposes is to help us see the world with fresh eyes - to help us feel alive, outraged, hopeful, NOT DEAD. Routine is comfortable, safe, ordinary, and - sometimes- dead - not many stories are told about routine. LOTS of stories are told where the routine is established and then something (something small/huge/catastrophic/surprising) breaks the routine. Surprise is very useful in storytelling and art. Establish a routine. Break the routine. Epiphany. Awakening. Possession. Transformation. Invasion. B. CHANCE Ancient cultures would throw criminals over cliffs. The wisefolk of the tribe would study how the broken bones of the criminal's corpse were arranged to help predict the future. Same idea as fortune tellers reading tea-leaves or coffee grinds at the bottom of the cup. They tapped into the spirit-world through chance. John Cage used the I-Ching to compose music. He developed a system where rhythm, meter, tune were all determined by the shake of the dice. By sticking strictly to this system, he made art without an author - in a way the Divine was the author. William Burroughs used his idea of "cut-ups" to rearrange and create new poems/prose - he would take a page of text, use a pair of scissors, cut out words and phrases, close his eyes and pick out the cut-out words one at a time and form new sentences/poems. Poetry straight from the void without interference from the author's ego. Use this idea. C. TRAP Have you felt trapped in your life? Stifled? Stuck? Make a piece about no-escape... about almost getting over the wall, but being dragged back into the labyrinth and lost all over again. |
| Final Output |
| Your final movie should start with one second of black and end with one second of black. The entire piece should be a minimum of 1 minutes long and no longer than 3 minutes long. Include a soundscape that you've made. Upload it to your Youtube or Vimeo site and send Deke the link. |