Jaionah Williams

In-Progress Shots

My place project will be a short video with an animation overlay. The content of the video will include pictures that I find around my house so that I can find digitally on a social media site. Please send photos will be accompanied with a hand-drawn animation by myself. It’s combining three art mediums will be video , camera photography, digital drawing. The materials used will be footage that I capture from my cell phone or my Canon DSLR are, after effects or a program very similar and can complete the task for me and my wacom drawing tablet.

For this project I used video in order to display and deconstruct the idea of time in today's society. It is going to be a short film of everyday life slowed down, played in real time and sped up. The discipline is going to be video. It’s going to be a looped video and although I intended for it to be played in the Student Center I unfortunately was unable to.

I went around and filmed parts of downtown Ann Arbor, mainly the area around pinball petes. I got an opportunity to take some footage while I was in the car and I also used some clips from earlier this year. After I collected enough footage I carefully went through the footage I had to see of what quality the clips to compare the quality to my DSLR to see if they would not be drastically different. I got an opportunity to highlight some things that I tend to not pay too much attention to or give any after thought.I still related much of my project to the discussion we delved into that talked about how time is a socially constructed topic, essentially trying to dismantle the idea that there’s not enough time. I think showing this through video was much easier to accomplish. It caught the attention of the viewer and kept them reeled and attentive much like how tv shows and commercials can. I also, accomplished the reiteration of the idea of time passing with the streaming of imagery in constant motion.

Black & white photography. Pictures of the ‘after’ photos of childhood places paired with original childhood photo.

Form: Photography (physical prints)

Content: The images will be images I collect from scrapbooks and things I have at home of my childhood. I will be taking photos on a b&w film

camera of those same pics from my childhood in the present day.

Process: I will rimage and digital scan the photos that I have collected. I would rent/buy a film

camera and go to the sites in the photos and take the photo.

Experimental video. I choose a series of adjectives that describe a “place” that i’ve encountered and recreate that feeling though different clips paired together.

Form: This would be a video.

Content: Would consist of me describing the feeling of a place strictly through imagery.

Process: I would put together a group of words in a bowl or hat and pick three. From those three adjectives I would find imagery that helps in portraying what they are without the use of words.

Mini animation creating the feeling of home. Illustrating the saying “home is where the heart is”

Form: This would an animated short.

Content: The content would include mini sketches of what and how I feel about home.

FORM:Short video/film.

CONTENT: The storyline of the video is of a dad showing his two daughters how to make a paper airplane.

PROCESS: This could have been filmed either two ways. This could have been completely scripted and staged all the way through or they could have been prompted and filmed organically.

FORM: This is a short animation. Adobe illustrator and after effects were probably used or applications similar to it.

CONTENT: It was a story about how the illustrator overcame the mindset she had of not being a good enough artist. That was shown through her present day perspective and her childhood perspective.

PROCESS: A story-board was created to keep track of scenes and sequencing. Character drawings were more than likely sketched out and then drawn using illustrator or another digital drawing application. And the sequencing was more than likely put together using video editing or something like after effects.

Identity Artist Statement

My Identity project is a video. In the early planning stages of the project I was super unsure about what images I wanted to include and what can help portray the idea of identity. I went with stock footage for the entire project and my own voice is used for the voice-over of the poem. Although my own images were not used I still believe for it to be a reflection of my identity and it being my own voice adds to that as well. In the beginning stages of my poetry writing I was looking for my poems to cover themes such as race, my placement in the world and society/ How I feel in the world and society, and gender. That wasn’t what came from my writing, it does sort of touch on ‘How I feel’ and ‘My placement in the world’. The poem itself although vague is in direct correlation of my placement. I had a strong sense of self entering into college but, as time went on I began to notice that I lost certain parts of myself. The materials I used were free stock footage that I accessed through Youtube and my own poetry. I used Hitfilm express for the video editing software and Ocean audio and Voice Memos on my Iphone.I decided against shooting my surroundings and using the lighting studio in Sherzer. I used just aroco footage that I found on the internet. Once I have collected all the footage I deem necessary I loaded it in Hitfilm express and cut and edit the clips. My intended meaning is to express my exploration and hopefully discovery of myself through my poetry aided with a visual.