The first step is always the hardest, so here goes:
Welcome to my blog for the Interactive Video course of winter 2011. I don't have a whole lot to upload at this point but hopefully as I progress with projects I'll have more content to share. In the mean time I guess I'll just start with concepts and current projects.
CONCEPTS AND CURRENT PROJECTS!!:
(Wittily titled indeed...)
So the first thing we were introduced to was the concept of three "Point Of View" projects. These three projects, as I'm sure you can guess, will be video projects in which we use three different cameras to create three video pieces : a time lapse camera, a micro recorder/spy cam and a helmet cam. The concept was to see how the camera sees the world, then think about what that could mean and what it could show or narrate.
Considering this is an interactive video class I have to ask myself how that element might fit in here. The concept of interaction as I see it, will take place with the artist interacting with the cameras and their environment. I'm not yet sure how to implement an interactive element involving the viewer, aside from the fact that the viewer must be actively engaged in the video, which is a form of interaction... albeit passive. I wonder if there is any way I could increase the veiwer's involvement...
One student attached one of the cameras to the spokes on his bike and then rode from his home to the campus. That created a heightened state of awareness and involvement for the viewer as it created a sort of vertigo and kept the mind actively searching and analyzing not only the video's environment, but their own, almost in an effort to find balance and stability or something of a reference to stay grounded in reaction to the unnerving twirling of the screen. Anyway, that's my take on the experience.
I want something engaging like that as well, something that might evoke a watcher to move to the edge of their seat or retreat deeper into it. That would be awesome, but I currently have no clue how to get that.
I have a few ideas on the various cameras for this project and what I might do with them, but more on that will come later.
The other project/work we've got going on invovles live video editing in Isadora and some interactive physical computing/programing with Arduino. I've played with Isadora and Arduinos a few times but this time I want to dig deeper into them both to find some intellegent things to say with them and their potential video editing/manipulating/interacting prowess. For now I have an idea involving multiple video edits, possibly multiple feeds, and proximity. As soon as I can get proximity to work I'll use it. But, alas, I'm going to save typing up more about that for another time and another post as this is just an icebreaker/introduction post to get my blogging muscles warmed up.
Feel the burn baby.
