Update

Not all of the themes and features that I initially set out to include in my final piece, are going to be there. This is not due to a lack of time or technical challenge, it is because these features are not appropriate for this work. My ideas about a machine attacking our humanity are important in my work moving forward, but seemed to crowd this piece. The essence of this work is an expression of humanness, love, and form. Through the course of this quarter, I have stripped away many layers of material from this project, in an attempt to reveal what I'm really interested in, and this is happening all the way to the end.

Here is a shot of my water woman - from the scene where the male character's cleansing, summons love through the water that washes him:

Samples...

Timeline Deux

Since nearly all of my video content is shot, my main goal now is to have edits of each scene done so I can create scores for the piece scene-by-scene. I have scheduled extra days with the camera and marked them in blue, although I don't think I will need all of them. I will commit to working on my piece 5 days per week for the next three weeks as follows:

5/17 - Video edit/effects, audio scripting

5/18 - Video edit/effects, audio scripting

5/20 - Audio Composition

5/22 - Still Photography, Shoot last footage

5/23 - Still Photography, Shoot last of footage

5/24 - Video edit/effects, audio scripting

5/25 - Video edit/effects, audio scripting

5/27 - Audio Composition, Final Camera Day

5/29 - Audio Composition

5/30 - Video edit/effects

6/1 - Final touches

6/2 - Final touches

More Again...

Here's the same scene with a little more activity...

Week 6, I think...

I have shot all of my principle footage with my human subjects, and all of the pre-production storyboarding and scheduling made everything go smooth and fast, like $%#!& out of a duck's #$!*&.

After shooting with the actor on Friday, I decided to utilize my camera rental time today and yesterday to get ready for some of the effects I want to try. I painted a green plate so I could shoot small scenes with objects:

I recorded some audio as well, and started to put it with some imagery. I found a nice audio tool, TimeStretch, that extends a sound without changing its pitch, but I can hear some distortion. Some colleagues suggested a tool that was designed by Karpen, for this very thing, so I'm going to look into this further...

Composite Test - Faces

I also started to compose possibilities for the 1st scene. This comp stays pretty true to the storyboard - minus the character in the middle:

Rough Assemblage

Now that I have some content shot, I have started playing with some rough compositions. I am dedicating time to testing compression codecs, figuring out ways of switching footage between software, playing with different frame rates, and learning some simple graphics tools in AfterEffects.

Here is my first attempt at a scene: