final movie

Final Artist statement

Sense of Place
Danielle Kelly

Rather than focusing on a physical sense of place, this work deals with the ephemeral notion of place within a family. Un-monumental events such as family dinners become more significant once isolated from other daily activities. Familiar scenes from movies of families eating dinner enables most viewers to identify with the event and feel a connection to scenarios portrayed.

By juxtaposing ‘family-dinner’ scenes in a grid and playing them simultaneously, the viewer would only be able to pay attention to certain aspects of the videos rather than absorbing all the scenes at the same time. The inability to comprehend all scenes at once, results in the viewer recognising phrases and actions, which trigger personal memories and feelings. Similar to the Rorschach inkblot test, individuals would have different reactions as they watch the scenes and identify with what is personally relevant.

Similar to Félix González-Torres’s use of personal particularities within his work by focusing on his illness, I decided to focus on a subject that was significant to myself. Being a ‘love child’ without acceptance of my fathers existing family; issues of family permeated my day-to-day life making me aware that even within ‘traditional’ family units there can be many psychological and cultural issues.

Artist statement. - not finished

The initial concept for this assignment initiated by ***** my place . Rather than focusing on a physical place i chose to look at a person's place within their family. The reason for choosing place within a family was inspired by *** happening with my own family at the time accompanied with my inspiration of artists such as Félix González-Torres (1) and Pamela Croft(2) using personal subjects in their artwork. Though this was initially intended as a personal look into place, this was by no means inteneded to be any type of therapy nor has it turned out to be directly referencing my family.

While analysing movie scenes of families having dinner, interesting similarities appeared in all of the scenes. Though the movies varied in their sound level or way the families interacted, there was always some type of awkwardness senced amongst the family members.


Similar to the Rorschach inkblot test, viewers of this video will pick up on phrases and words according to what is relevant to them personally.


By Juxtaposing the images of different families in a grid, it highlights both the differences and similarities of families. The range of different issues apparent in these videos highlights the multifaced nature of .......



Félix González-Torres



Pamela Croft.

nearly done :)

I need to cut the intro a little so it's only 30 sec ....
or .. put the beginning 30 sec at the end.

a little more editing on the transitions...

practice with sound effects

Video setup on screen shot

Processes and programs used.

process":

Copy video using dvd shrink.

Save dvd files as avi files using XVID.


Use windows media player to find and save selection of video files.

Open Video files in after effects and edit.

Changing Sound:

Use Win FF to convert .wma files to .avi files so audacity can accept them and then they can be edited.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/WinFF

To extract voices from background noise...
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXiKYG3J7M