#project documentation

Things to say!! (excuse my English, I'm a Spanish speaker..)

Finally… well, these past two weeks I've been thinking about a project and have been making progress on certain parts. I know I don't even have an audience to support me or the resources to be an artist (that's why I'm inactive, besides my laziness, hehe…), I'm just starting this on my own. This is a personal project of mine, since… ever since I was a fan of BFDI at age 10, back in 2018. I always imagined my favorites singing on stage with my favorites songs, even if it was just from a radio, very late at night with electronic music remixes… my 10-year-old self had so many ideas and did so many things, I even played with doodles of the characters pretending to have a celebrity life and other ideas in my head. But I asked myself… why not make it a reality? Since seeing other AU's from other communities like Hellpark, it inspired me to do this, although for now I'll be doing it alone. I admit I don't like interacting much with the BFDI fandom; I'm usually a reserved person, to be honest. But hey, you're bound to meet people you don't like in life, I guess.

Now then, name of the AU:

Battle For Legendary Stardom (BFLS)

Yes, I changed some parts of the original series name, but… I'll keep the "Battle for…" to maintain the series identity.

Creating the name was a bit complicated for me, since, as I said, I'm a Spanish speaker and I have trouble understanding English as it is, especially when I'm using a translator. To make the name, I had to do some research to ensure it was clear, as we know Google Translate can sometimes be terrible.

In BFDI, instead of competing for the island of dreams, in this BFLS (Battle For Legendary Stardom) universe they compete to be the biggest superstar, where ambition and greed are commonplace. However, some elements like eliminations, alliances, rivalries, and drama will still be present in this alternate universe, sometimes just like in the original series. For example, some canonical relationships between characters, like the friendship between Tennis Ball and Golf Ball, will undoubtedly remain; they have a deep connection in my AU, just like in the original. Hehe, except that in my alternate universe there will be romance and heartbreak later on…

Oh, by the way, I thought that in my AU viewers could vote for their favorites. Or eliminate someone? I don't know, you can decide that. (I don't even have an audience and I say this stupid thing XDD)

Scheme of the au

In my AU, I was somewhat inspired by famous shows like American Idol, YoSoy (a very popular reality show in my country), and The Voice. BFLS will document the lives of adolescents (between 14 to 16 years) competing to become the next superstar, how they interact with each other, and how things develop over time. They'll obviously receive support from the host, Announcer, an eccentric billionaire with crazy ideas. He created a huge music studio agency where the contestants will boost their musical careers, but they'll also live in a large hotel-mansion, also owned by Announcer, where the teenagers will live together day after day throughout their journey. The downside is that everything they do will be filmed and documented.

It will be a show full of opportunities and fun moments, but as time goes on, the backstage moments will go from fun to boring and repetitive. Interviews, public approval, paparazzi, and the pressure of creating songs daily will generate stress and conflict in teenagers, who would like to return to their lives as they were before. I think.

Well, for now I'm thinking of only implementing 20 characters in this AU, who will be the contestants (the 20 original characters from the first season of the original series). I doubt this project will get any support later on, but I'll give it my all.. yeah.

Oh, wait, Announcer won't be alone with his idea. Judges like Winner and Loser will be there. They've been huge superstars since the 2010s. (Oh yeah, my AU starts in 2010, the exact year the first official bfdi episode was uploaded.) I almost forgot something… Profily will be the comedian and co-host of this reality show in my AU. They the one who documents everything that happens during the show. they won't let the contestants sleep… they going to document their lives and everything they do 24/7.

END, for now.

And for now, that's all, hehe… I'll try to document more. I'll make sure this is every Saturday, well… if there are Saturdays when I don't post anything, it's because I also have an academic life at university (Okay… 18 years old and straight into university, without even a break from that sh#tty school).

I sincerely hope that little by little I'll find people who want to collaborate with me voluntarily on this project, well, it's more of a dream since I was a BFDI fan. To create an AU where it's a singing battle.

I'm just starting to put all this together on my own, but even if it takes me years, the important thing is to keep my ideas clear. Although I did think I'd like to add animations to my AU like Hellpark (the content of my AU is going to kill me… but oh well, I've thought that later it will be uploaded to TikTok and here, a blog about the AU). I know I'm not a professional animator or anything like that, I haven't even used Alight Motion for 4 years. But listen, in April they're buying me a graphics tablet and I won't have to draw with my fingers anymore!!!

Life Style Bruce Mau

edited by Kyo Maclear with Bart Testa.

Phaidon, London 2005, 626 pages, 21,7 x 25,2 cm, hardcover, ISBN  978-9707906396

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More manifesto than monograph, Life Style is the first book to document Bruce Mau's creative process and his studio practice, Bruce Mau Design. Conceived and designed by the studio, the book is a singular album of playful and critical statements about the visual and cultural trends that influence today's image-driven context. This collection of Mau's essays, observations, anecdotes, and project documentation emobides his unique world view and his belief that form and content are inseparable. The book's organization echoes his conviction that design is more than an end in and of itself; it is "not separated or segregated from life but instead is integrated with other messy flows. It engages directly with the world.".

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This blog post is about our decisions on the exhibition scope of Past Recedes and how they changed throughout the semester.

The exhibition will initially take place in Bilkent University FADA Exhibition Hall.

We started the semester with this curation of our exhibition, our five parts of the videos would play on four different walls in huge scales and we would exhibit our film strips in the middle on light tables. 

As the time went by, we started thinking about a different way exhibiting our film since in the first iteration we were thinking about filming our project on 35 mm film and when we decided on 8 mm, we thought that meters and meters of 8 mm film strips would look like a mess on tables :)

Middle Piece (First Sketch)

Then we decided that we could build a middle piece, exhibiting both an 8mm projector and our film together in the middle of the room, our film would still play on the walls individually divided to its parts. 

While we were dreaming, of course we weren’t thinking of logistics of using five projectors on four walls. After coming back to earth with some feedback from our professors, we decided on playing our video installation not as five separate parts but as a whole experimental movie divided to the parts in itself. Our following idea was to juxtapose a digital projector back to back to our middle piece which is an analog projector. In the meantime, we prototyped the middle piece.

Our middle piece would act as a vertical light table, the audience will have magnifiers to look at the 8 mm film strips in detail.

On our midterm jury, we were criticized of juxtaposing ‘old’ and ‘new’ technology back to back, which was definitely not related to our project. We started thinking on a new curation of the projectors which would exhibit them both but not create a comparison in between.

In the end, we decided on putting both projectors on top of each other on a pedestal which would hide the digital projector that will play our video installation and take the focus back on the analog projector which will act as a light source to our film strips. 

As you all know by now, we are working on a Super8 project and we have recently finished shooting one roll of our film. At the time we were away from our blog, we were trying to figure out how to process our film in Turkey. We had several options to develop our film as; sending our film to a processing company in Istanbul, bathing the film with the “spaghetti method” -dumping all the film in a big light-proof box and processing that way- and finding a Lomo Tank which is a product for processing film, designed to keep 15 meters (50 feet) of film inside a small light proof space without any parts of the film touching. Sending the film to Istanbul would cost a lot of time and money so we abandoned that idea very fast. And according to the technical advise we got, we have found ourselves in searching for a Lomo Tank.

LOMO UPB-1A Universal Developing Tank For 8mm/16mm/35mm Film

The available Lomo Tanks both didn’t shipped to Turkey and would cost a lot of money even in second hand so we decided to make one ourselves. With the help of an online tutorial (DIY Spiral Processing Tank for Cine Film, by Chris Gavin, https://www.chrisgavin.com/2013/07/diy-spiral-proccessing-tank-for-cine.html) and Eda’s father, we started to make a fully functioning Super8 developing spiral and tank. 

Our progress video on making our developing tank, Part I. 

Hello there, we have been away for almost a month now. In this month, we have completed one part of our shooting and also started solving some of our logistical problems before going into the dark room (stay tuned, an 8 mm developing tank tutorial is on its way :).

On March 7, we have completed our first shooting. This shooting was quite decisive in order to practise the camera (Canon AutoZoom 518) and experiment with the framing and the lighting.

Canon AutoZoom 518

In this shooting we used a Kodak Tri-X reversal film which is a black and white positive film. Since Part 2 was planned to be black and white we have started with the scenes from this part. 

Kodak Tri-x Reversal

Further on, we continued with some plans from Parts 3 and 4, since we can modify the color after we develop the film by both with digital post-production or rotoscoping.

Behind the Scene Pictures from Parts 2, 3 & 4

Shooting with 8 mm was definitely an experience. With us being used to digital equipments and having the luxury to shoot a scene over and over again, filming with Super8 have pushed us to have a more detailed pre-production and an experimental shooting since we had only one shot and couldn’t even see our footage at the end before the development. 

Past Recedes is a COMD481 & COMD482 Visual Communication Project. As two aspiring senior years, we have started brainstorming on this project in Summer 2020. When we were just getting rid of the drowsiness of the pandemic, we thought that we could base our project on a phenomena that lockdowns of COVID projected on both of us, a pathway to self realisation. 

The background research that we lean Past Recedes against is based on the writings of Carl Jung. In Conscious, Unconscious and Individuation, Jung defines self realisation as a four-part process which he calls “individuation process.” The stages of the individuation process goes as; meeting the shadow self, encountering the Anima/Animus (the soul image), Mana Personalities (where man meets the Wise Old Man) and the self (where one becomes a coherent whole, a unified consciousness).

The story of our installation is about the fragmentation of time, distortion of reality and consecutiveness. The audience encounters a girl that finds herself around Super8 film reels and a projector, later to enter an obscure reality that is actually converging with the process of film development. The story does not lose its sequentiality but because of the distorted reality that it represents, it loses the persistence of time. So, we can say that we will do “an asynchronous series of sequential tellings.”

Below, you will find our Artist Statement providing brief explanation of Past Recedes.

Around times of self isolation that was caused by the pandemic, all of us had to retire into our shell’s. This retirement caused some sort of confrontation for a lot of people. For both of us, the confrontation was fueled with the unpredictability of the future. The stillness of the present moment was not helping either, so we had to take the shelter of our pasts. 

Past Recedes is a video installation of a combination of 5 to 8 seconds videos shot on 8mm film. The project is done on 8mm film because of 8mm’s default connotations of the ‘past’. The aim of this project is to tell the story of our own confrontations over the narrative of a girl who is trapped in an undeveloped film. The journey of our character will mimic the individuation process which was mentioned by Carl Jung. The project will experiment with the idea of the process of one being the greatest version of herself. 

At the point where our story ends, our installation begins. The exhibition of Past Recedes will be in a digital format from a digital projector but the film itself will also be exhibited with the final product. The celluloids we exhibit will refer to the process and the past, whereas the digitized projection of it will refer to all the 'past' combined and unified. As we develop and digitize our film, our character will break free and she will be individuated.