meditation timelapse

meditation timelapse from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

As a test, I created a time lapse of myself meditating demonstrating a sense of time. In total I sat in a stationary crossed legged position for an hour and a half. I took a picture every minute, and this is what it looked like.

I don't think i'll be using it in my film, because it doesn't have the same fluidity as some of the other videos that I have been making.

Børre Sæthre

I came across this installation artist, whom's ideas on space and the viewers' experience seem quite fitting in terms of my project

''The norwegian artist Børre Sæthre uses the term 'immersive mode'...a type of experience in which subjective awareness...appears to merge with the artwork, so as to create a sensation of a new, more powerful experience of totality''

''Experience is meditated through the body: the degree to which our sensory faculties are stimulated is linked to the impact that an experience has on us. An 'immersive' work may be described as a mixture of sensory and narcissistic pleasure offered to the viewer''

Sæthre's 'non-places' artworks aim to elicit sensual pleasure through sensory manipulation.

His installations appear to be quite simple, but effective giving a sense of space.

Oliveira, N., Oxley, N. and Petry, M. (2003) Installation Art in the New Millenium, london Thames and Hudson, ltd.

stress/calm back stop frame tests

red angry back stop frame from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

calm back stop frame from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

These are some stop frame tests I created using a stationary image of my back, then building up the image with water colour and expressive mark making

soft cinema

Soft cinema is an exploration of ''database cinema', which is computer software that generates variable screen layouts and selective video clips from a database that is unique to each film.

When it is presented in an installation, the film runs indefinitely without repeating the same edits. The films have been adapted for the dvd capturing a number of versions for each scene, and programmed to the DVD to select the version and older scenes in real time. Therefore, every viewing potentially produces a different film, although the voiceovers used are always the same for each film.

Below are some of the screen shots I have captured from the short film; Mission to Earth. The number of co-present screens show us what the main character is seeing, thinking, and remembering simultaneously. The motion graphics follow the story, visualizing its themes and the feelings of the character.

Multiple screens are used in a symmetrical layouts displaying film, animation, still image and text.

Kratky, A. and Manovich, L. (2005) Soft cinema; Navigating the database Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press (accessed 24th Dec 2011)

tree timelapse

tree time laspe from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

Here is a simple time lapse experiment I have done to demonstrate a sense of time passing. The flickering leaves are an imitation of how the eyelids flicker whilst one is meditating, which is something I hadn't noticed until it was filmed.

Still Photos

Here are some preliminary photos I took in a park in Guildford. I like how many of the photos catch the sunlight and shadows. Ideally I would like my film to have this kind of look. The park is an atmospheric place and whilst I was there I did feel quite calm.

Alphaville - research

This is a link of a film clip from the french film; Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard. This scene depicts Lemmy Caution and Natacha Von Braun discussing the meaning of love in Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville". Not much seems to happen in this scene in terms of physical activity, but the dialogue between the two actors presents a strong narrative on the subject of 'love'

Godard has montaged clips of film together, and certain frames are shown repeatedly, reverting back from one scene to another and then back to the first clip. So there is a sense that the clips become little motifs, that when montaged together create and effective narrative.

Here are some of the key frames, which give a sense of what is going on in each motif.

watch this link on youtube

rdtacuna(2006)Alphaville - Jean-Luc-Godard [online]available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHikpdf8ktM (accessed 18th December 2011)