A. Ok self critique is pretty simple. i Agree with most of the critique for my piece titled "Master Bites Dog's Hand". I didn't really want to put consumerism spelled out in the beginning and i'm actually relieved to take it out. Next i understand the point about James Dean being frozen on too long. I'm not sure i wish to use a plain black text overlay for the words that come in compared to the artistic pictures but it's cool i'll figure out a compromise. And the final image i feel makes sense for it has 3d glasses and that fad completely falls into the cultural consumerism that our country loves to market. 3D movies are IT right now and even tv's are coming "3d ready" whatever that means. I wanted to promote the Circus act of culture that has been created by warring corporations fighting for our attention. Kids that can be psychologically diagnosed as psychopaths if they were considered a citizen, (which they are by the state). I had a lot of trouble with gif's loading into after effects. The program constantly kept freezing and forcing me to force quit, log out and then log back in before After Effects would even open again. I just went ahead and exported what i could in small parts and put those .mov's back into the program and the problem quit.
B. My rework i took out consumer, and moved some of the GIF's around that seemed a little out of place. I also retimed the section that shows james dean so that he isn't a focal point. AAnd then i added more GIF's to reinforce the imagery i had applied, along with a small reworking of the ending to put less focus on the final image and onto the feel and the words.
C. Ideaaas!
1. i had one idea that i reaaally want to do with charcoal and gesso. I've always loved charcoal and it's aesthetic, subtraction done with gesso would add a nize smoky feel as the remaining paint in the blublu stop motion films looked. The smokey feel could add a nice context relating to chaotic turmoil disentegrating into nothingness, WHich! could be applied to what Media and Corporate advertising tends to do to our culture in an effort to control what we purchase. They do small experiments on rats and other animals to then turn these tests into realities on a global scale.
2. Another idea would be to incorporate natural elements such as sunlight on an actual structure. Allowing the sun to become an element in itself. The sun plays the role of energizer giving life, yet in life darkness must also be present in the shadow of giants. This idea would push the concept of the shadow play. I would construct giants out of tiny pieces of cardboard
that when viewed by the shadow on the ground would turn out to be hundreds of tiny insects scurrying about and in turn consuming the giant itself. Of course the shadows would not be used to consume the giant, i would use camera tricks to hold the lens on them as they gradually emerge out of the paper and become charcoal drawings on top that eventually help the decomposition of the humble giant.
3. Use of natural elements to use for their own context so that i could speak on our control of nature rather than cooperation. This has been a reoccurring theme for me since ipc and having cutout cowboys wrangle a tree. Elements of nature would be attacked by their own seed which gathers in rows to march on and systematically block off it's resources so it withers and dies. What happens however is that the matter within nature never dies and actually set free to return the favor to it's seed by "setting them free" as well. Possibly the matter that was decomposed could form into spears that take out the little minions and such.
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