Exhibition

It is finally Exhibtion night!, after a week of working to help each other out with setting up and creating people's work things have finally finished and everything looks really well set up and ready to be presented to the audiance. My piece of film footage was set up in the cinema room were we had cinema seats set up for the showreel the room itself was looking great and we even decided to get popcorn for people to eat while watching the showreel to give the sense of being in an actual cinema.

after all the hard work and effort which was put in by the class I feel that tonight will go well and I hope that people who are visiting enjoy the exhibition and the many media which we have to show to the public.

synopsis

here is my synopsis for the exhibition in order for people to read about my work maybe give them some understanding of what it is about:

"Title: Portraits of fear

A study on self portraits through the works of Francis Bacon,

The piece of moving image shows four acts of distorted self portraits going through various stages of fear.

The various sounds which acompany the self portraits generates an atmosphere for each act to create the sense of fear in the portraits."

Final Edit

My edit was nearly finished all I needed to do was add the 4 seprate audio tracks for each portrait and also add the 4 acts written inbetween each one also with a quote from francis bacon at the start of the edit which reads "It is a miserable state of mind to have a few things to desire and many things to fear." this relates to the portraits and I felt the quote had alot of meaning to it and stood out to represent fear.

After adding the final touches to my edit I needed to render it which took quite a while due to the heavy duty effects which I added to the edits I thought it was quite a painful process to go through but in the end it was worth it to see my footage play. 

The final outcome in order of acts:

Editing Process 2

I have now began to continue with my editing of portraits, so far I created two seprate acts which are both a series of 4 screens with various distorted moving image portraits, I think with the added audio to the images the atmosphere of fear will be created to the short piece of film. I begand ot move on and experiment with more of the footage I had I thought about how getting inside a portraits head when looking at it so I generated an effect to create a head inside a head of the portrait this effect worked really well and also gave a blackness to the face itself, I created another portrait with a normal piece of footage of me sitting there and then slowly morphing into a ghostly figure to which would represent death this took abit of time as i wanted to make sure the fade was just right in order for the effect to take place. I went on to put these pieces in their 4 acts from one leading onto another and another etc Im happy with the experimentions and how they were turning out the portraits of my face disfigured and distorted from its origanel setting really was showing a disturbing sense of fear through my work.

Editing process

With my filming finished it was now time to start the editing process, this would be the most crucial stage of my FMP as this would be were I would introduce the element of fear by generating distorted versions of my portrait using the effects avalible to me on adobe premier pro. The footage of my film was transferd to adobe in a HD format were I would then drag it onto the timeline in order to start editing my footage, I started to slice bits of the footage I had filmed and experiment with the effects which I had avalible I found there was alot more choice on this editing softwear compared to the older version which I worked with during my previous work.

looking at my various experimentations I looked back on francis bacons work were I hit on an idea to have 4 portraits in ones screen to create a small series of distorted images, I figured that minimizing each screen to a scale of 38.1 and making them equal would generate this small series of images into one screen, I also decided to make a second one with diffrent distorted images as a small series. so far the editing is going well only two more acts to create.