The first one we watched was 'A colour box' by Len Lye. I enjoyed this because I found the patterns almost kaleidoscopic in the way that they made you not want to look away from it in case you missed something. I was somewhat shocked when the advertisements for 'Cheaper Parcel Post' popped up on the screen. but it did not distract me too much. Something I thought about this piece was that to say it was from the late 1930's it looks almost like something that could have be made and shown now in a music video perhaps. For me it was one of those things where I was completely transfixed from the start, and that doesn't happen often because things generally don't grab my attention.
A link for this is here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqf9QiwM7vk
The second one we watched was 'Mothlight' by Stan Brakhage in 1963. This consisted the corpses of moths but for some reason I liked it just as much as the first if not more. I found something oddly intriguing about it- the contrast from this to the first is vast- this is black and white, whereas the first had color and this was silent instead of having some non diegetic sound. I almost had a weird association with something quite Tim Burton esque and I enjoyed watching it, it could almost be included in one of his films.
A link for this is here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P5vkegmvU
Next, we saw a section of a Spiderman film trailer, it was so interesting to put into perspective how many stills make up even the slightest movement on screen. After this, we each got three seconds of time which is 75 frames to draw on. I enjoyed this because it looked so great on the screen when all of our work was put together. The only annoyance I had with this was doing the tiny little drawings in the spaces and the limited time we had, I wish we would have had longer there.
After lunch I moved onto photography. First, we got split into groups of three and got out the torches on our phones, then when the room was in complete darkness we used a slow shutter speed to photograph movement with the torches. (Pictures to come.) We had some different ideas, such as one of us posing with her arms out and then I shone the light over her profile, this turned out looking really good.
This was a good task but it infuriated me because the ones we planned out and got excited to do, didn't turn out like we wanted them too, or even at all. But it was fun because it was a challenge, and it made us really think about what we had to do instead of just doing it. Next, we went outside of the classroom to the rest of the building and were told to photograph shades of grey, this was relatively
because there are a lot of grey things about, we tried to get creative by taking pictures of grey cars and other more obscure things you could see from college.
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