Cut Up Method

After reading about the Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin I learned that the cut up method is practically everywhere. It talks mainly about film and writing. Film for example can have many different interpretations depending on how the film is shown. If you cut it up and rearrange it it can have a completely different message. It can go from advising teens not to smoke to showing that all teens grow up to be smokers. There is a point made that all works of writing are made from the cut up method. A writer doesn't sit down and instantly have a 300 page book in his head. Writing is just a collage of words. The cut up method is seen in everyday life. It ranges from movies, to commercials, to shows, to anything on the internet, books. It is everywhere and we are all influenced by it.

critique

Creating a website was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Since I turned my project in I was unable to receive any criticism. Clearly not having my project turned in on time effects my grade, but it also effects how I create work and hoe people perceive it. I can't just assume that people will understand my message. It greatly helps to have an outside opinion. Critiques are an important part of creating work and I missed out since I didn't turn my project in on time. I did however learn a few things through other students projects and understand different things about hyperlinks. The direction I can take my work now has more options.

project proposal

For our final project we have been asked to create a remix. I've done one of these before and was completely interested in it. I mixed together two of my favorite songs as well as about five music videos. This time the project is a little different. This isn't just learning about how a program works and creating an entertainment piece. We have been asked to use the "Cut Up Method" to create a video or still image that has a completely different meaning. Since I am a lesbian and embrace the homosexual culture I've decided to take bits and pieces of videos from members of the Westboro Baptist Church and piece them together to give them a new message of embracing homosexuals, all religions, and all people. The message that they claim to bring is love and warning, even though it is full of hate and ignorance. I plan on giving them the message of love and acceptance. I'm going to gather as any videos as I can to edit them together instead of just two or three videos. The end result I hope to show them in a good light with a message they should have been bringing all along.

Can we change the future?

As We May Think

The article As We May Think, written by Vannevar Bush is about his view of technology, resources, and science. He is almost predicting the future in this article through some of the things he is talking about. He takes a long time to get across that with the needed resources provided along with mass knowledge, there can be a way to improve the technology that we have. Bush speaks a lot on photography. He is predicting that there might be a way somehow that to gain photographs, there will no longer be the need for wet photography. He states that it started out that way. You would start with a wet print, then follow through with dry process, so there must be a way to eliminate the wet process all together. I found this to be the most interesting part of the article because I, myself enjoy digital photography. This article shows that with a knowledgeable thought process, we too can predict the future, or have a part in creating technology to help man kind.

Motion text - critique

This video was made in Adobe After Effects. This was my first time using After Effects and I found it difficult to put into motion what I would have like to see my text do. The point I was trying to make through my text is that as I approach graduation I feel like I'm being bombarded with many questions about my future that I'm not ready to answer yet. These questions feel like pressure that I have to succeed right away and I'm not sure how I want to approach my life yet.

The critique that we had in class was very helpful. I saw my project as being nothing close to where I wanted it to be, but was informed that even though it does need some work, it's not as bad as I thought it was in my mind. I have taken the criticism well and have ideas how I want to change this video. I'd like to slow the whole video down some; it went much faster than I wanted it to be. I'll add more questions, maintain some pressing speed, and change the color to a more brighter true red. I would also correct a few motion mistakes. I found the critique very helpful in seeing where this project could go.



The video ends around 30 seconds, NOT 1:30