Do(n’t) Say “Future”!

Do(n’t) Say “Future”! is an experimental video of slit-scan performance held by art students.

Proposal

The first proposal: 《The Lost City》

At the very beginning, I planned to make a projection mapping pop-up book. But as I searched the Internet, I found my idea has been realized by an influencer on bilibili: https://space.bilibili.com/67969624?from=search&seid=10211234866178864539&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0

Besides, we learnt the slit-scan photography in week8, so I started to think about what I could do by using it.

My 2nd Proposal ：《Do(n’t) Say Future!》

Concepts :

The key idea is to show that “How art students become lost when talking about their future “ by using slit-scan technique to human body. Because the whirling effects are good enough to show the lost condition of people.

I want to use this way to criticize the phenomenon that sometimes we go too stressful to achieve our goals in art. And I also want to tell art students that don’t be so hurried, and I call for finding their real dreams and desires.

The project integrates art, science and humanities, because it is a visual short film that has artistic value; and it uses slit-scan technique. This project aims to heal the hearts of art students who are chasing their dreams.

Researches and Related Artists:

Beau Daignault:https://twitter.com/beaudaignault

His whirling/rolling effect is good to show the feeling of lost.

Francois Vogel: https://www.instagram.com/francois.vogel/

He is good at using camera movement to combine with slit-scan technique.

Process

Recruit people, Shot and Edit

Joyce recruited 14 people to join in this project, and built a Wechat group.

Then they went to these 5 art and design schools to give the performance.

However, there are some difficulties happened:

1.Recruiting People to join in is hard:
–Only half of the people in Wechat group (6 people included me) performed

2.Shooting & Going to 5 schools are Time Consuming:
–But there is the spirit of art performance as well as this project;

3.Editing and making Slit-Scan Effect:
–AE is choppy. It takes 10 minutes to slit-scan a 7-sec footage; CPU got burnt.–> CMC? X
–Shooting other footages/materials to make this video more interesting.
–Airdrop the footages between Ipad & PC back and forth to edit;
–Exporting for 12 times —> Workload