Clouds

Some of the footages to be used in my project are the movement and still pictures of the clouds taken at different times. On taking a closer observation at clouds I found that no one cloud is the same. More interestingly I observed the movement of the clouds sometimes were quicker compared to others that seemed at a standstill. In relating the clouds to my project time never stands still.

Let the Story begin

Following on from the tutorial I had with Andy, the visit to the Tate Modern and video I watched of Bill Viola's work, I have started to put Audio and footages together. The intention is to further fine tune each piece and put them together as one big picture.

Project development

I went to the exhibition for some inspiration for my project and came across the work of Mona Hatoum (Measures of Distance 1988)
Mona Hatoum left Beirut in 1975 for a short visit to London. When war broke out in the Lebanon she found it impossible to return. In this video, letters from her mother in Beirut, written in Arabic, move across the screen fading in and out read out aloud by the artist in English, Hatoum's mother is also heard, speaking openly about her feelings and sexuality, accompanied by images of her in the shower.

I also took a look at a Video cassette produced and directed in USA/Japan by Bill Viola titled HATSU -YUME (First Dream) 1981, is quite similar to my project in a number of ways the moving clouds shown against a static stone taken as well as people taken at different times of the day reflects the movement of time, the way the water is captured both in the river and on the windscreen with the reflection of light is quite captivating when observing the effect it creates. These two works have giving me ideas of how to merge my video and still footages to form one story.

Storyboard

After having collected so many video and still footages, the next step is to bring everything together as one piece of work. To achieve this I will be editing the video footages and merge them together with the still images at intervals. I hope to come up with a story board that will reflect this in the next two weeks. Part of what my project entails is to show movement and season changes.