Murli

https://vimeo.com/234933922 FINAL WORK & 700 WORD CONCEPT STATEMENT: My initial poster surrounded the development of vaporwave as a trend in aestheticism. In this genre of art, it seems to revolve around the products of renaissance artworks but then revamps them. The genre has its own sort of colour reminiscent of highly saturated images where the hues are often transposed. Vaporwave is strange in the fact that it is only an online genre and it never gets sold, it never leaves the internet. My work still caters to this, it’s a video that literally portrays my day and how I view a lot of stuff. 

I edited in ways that I would not usually edit and it opened my eyes up. Thinking about the potential of glitch, I began to realise that you can literally make whatever you want. With simple editing softwares, all the footage that I had shot in a day was able to be transformed into something interesting. Glitching allows a creator to revamp anything and to provide differing perspectives that you’d never even see. I never thought I’d see the world through a transposed hue consisting of greens, cyans and pinks but at after fully editing my video, it really made me think about how you can pretty much see what you want to see. Glitching for me is important as I often think of worlds that I’d never get to see. Like sometimes I have dreams of me living underwater like at the Great Barrier Reef or maybe I live in space. When you dream of these sort of worlds this feeling of extreme awe sort overwhelms you. I feel like glitching allows you to finally see what you have dreamed of. My video continues off the point I made in my poster, that the creative potential of glitching is that one can literally create endless possibility.

 I feel like my video is important because I self-imposed restrictions on myself, I thought I’d bring my camera to uni one day and just film a bunch of random shots before I leave the house and on the way home. I also made sure I limited myself to shooting. What this did was it made me savour pushing the record button, but effectively I was always having my eyes open looking for something to shoot, something interesting. Though I was shooting with a DSLR, it began to feel like shooting with a film camera, even though I could see the end product. The only similarity here is the limited exposures. I want my video to encourage people to go out and literally film whatever you want and edit it however you want. The reason behind this is because, as long as you film in a way that you like, you can create whatever you want if you dedicate enough time in post-production. If I think about the video I produced, I can see that like if I had not edited it, it would not be that interesting, it’d just be plain stuff with no transitions or overlays. It would be raw and present a different perspective. That’s why I think glitching is important, because it grants the ability to revamp anything you thought was pretty boring or monotonous. 

I guess my video is interesting in the way that I did not really have any idea what to make but by placing restrictions on myself, trying to interpret colours in my dream and trying to portray how editing in this way sort of provided remedial. It is calming in the way that it makes me think of the endless creative possibility when utilising glitch and that if I really wanted to live and see these colours, I could try maybe turn it into some Virtual reality map (just a hypothetical). From creating this video, I just tried to make something interesting out of nothing except my camera, some editing skills, basic sound skills and a day of filming. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: (Stuff that helped me/influenced me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eMeVQjTlgQ Ladies Hit Squad - Skepta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phr1pOFK1V8   Bounce Back - Big Sean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVJdQj_Eig “Jack Leonard DWOK” - DWOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJx0WWnL6E “BMX- MADERArik: Erik Elstran in Minneapolis” - TheComeUp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7gP_IW-1w “Yamborghini High” - A$AP MOB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBhE_FZmJc&t=605s “The GX1000 Video” - GX1000 Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZykp48Cjk&t=57s “BSD ALVX” - Alex Donnachie & Dave Sowerby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=784Qdy8YeJ4 “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” - Tame Impala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsFG3KtUq6M “To the Moon” - SmokePurpp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfTTeZOrs4 “Viceroy” - Mac DeMarco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmhWnFnlh4 “How to datamosh” - Justin Odisho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVQBBzoVQ4&list=LL-Pv8Z2QFw-ArwUnwbgfHsw&index=1 “How to whip swoosh blur” -  Ivan Krivonosov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgugDlSQPFw “This Old Dog” - Mac DeMarco, Pitchfork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrFwLQ96SY&list=LL-Pv8Z2QFw-ArwUnwbgfHsw&index=6 “DAN LACEY | BEYOND” - Rich Forne, Dan Lacey, Monster Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAn7_9v8AR8&list=LL-Pv8Z2QFw-ArwUnwbgfHsw&index=13 “COMMON CREW STREET RIDE TEASER” - Common Crew

After browsing the internet trying to figure out how to glitch my project more, I came across some music videos which interested me. These videos are listed below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phr1pOFK1V8  “Bounce Back” - Big Sean What i like about this video is the colour grading. The editor has obviously put a lot of thought into editing this video. The colours are astounding and I hope I can emulate this exaggerated saturation. It also has some pretty nice warping transitions. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eMeVQjTlgQ  “Ladies Hit Squad” - Skepta Once again, this video has exceptional colour grading and lighting. Whilst I don’t have proficiency with lighting equipment, I hope the stuff I filmed is as natural as possible so when it comes to colour grading I won’t have any problems with exposure. This video is really good, the colours work incredibly well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJx0WWnL6E “BMX- MADERArik: Erik Elstran in Minneapolis” - TheComeUp

Whilst this BMX video has exceptional riding in it, the editing is also on another level. The use of overlays intrigued me, as well as how well the editing fit the riding and song choices. I hope I can do something similar. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVJdQj_Eig “Jack Leonard DWOK” - DWOK This video is short and sweet. The riding is fairly simple and cutty, but the SD footage combined with some cool rotoscoped introductory animation sets it aside from the rest of the other BMX edits on the website. I really love this technique, however, the time constraint means I probably won’t be able to do this. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBhE_FZmJc&t=605s “The GX1000 Video” - GX1000 Crew I loved this video, probably one of my favourite videos of all time. Whilst I don’t own a VX, and my other SD camera is broken, I wish to emulate this vibe. It’s raw and golden and I mean I’m just in love with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZykp48Cjk&t=57s “BSD ALVX” - Alex Donnachie & Dave Sowerby This is without a doubt one of the most creatively edited BMX videos on the planet. Sowerby is honestly a genius. There are some brilliantly tracked shots and a barrier of editing and riding is breached. This video is incredible and I want to do at least one shot similar to this. 

Assessment 2, Experiment 1: 

Using some footage I had filmed of a friend a while ago to test out some colour correction and some visual effects. I try to emulate a sort of VHS look combined with 8mm film as well as some trippy colours. I edited on a blank adjustment layer in Premiere Pro, added noise, gaussian blur, Colour Correction HLS, changed opacity and layered three videos and changed the colour channels to get some colour splitting and lastly I overlayed an 8mm film stock footage reel.

I don’t mind the colours in this however at one point the colours do change which shouldnt have happened since I did it on the same adjustment layer. This is only my first experiment with this sort of colour correction but it should get better as editing continues.

Assessment 2, Semester 2:

Following my initial research in Assessment 1 on Glitch, I think I would like to create a video of some sort in the same category as vaporwave/glitchiness. I want to muck around with visual effects with various programs to create this a video that is something sort of nonsensical but rather a video that just looks nice and ties together seamlessly through glitchiness. 

I watched this video the other day and I thought it was pretty incredible and pivotal to my idea and progress. I want to create something similar but different, not a copy of this work but my own sort of style and own footage.

300 Word Statement: My Poster is reflective of the creative potential of glitching in today’s society. Glitching has led to many questions surrounding creativity as well as more controversial questions about copyright and plagiarism. However, I believe that glitching is more than just errors and pixelation but rather glitching has the potential to do a lot more. By studying the genre of Vaporwave, a genre created by users on the internet and something that has never left the internet, I realised that remix-culture and glitching led to a large community on virtual platforms where multiple users can contribute, sample, mix and mash information together to produce new works. Vaporwave has led to a wide amount of new sound categorised by warpy, slow, chopped, remixed, sad, emotional, funky, Japanese, anime sampled music as well as creating a different kind of aesthetic where we see these sounds portrayed into strange artworks that push art to a different boundary of remixing. 

I figured I should include the worlds most renowned and considered “priceless” painting, “Mona Lisa” 1503 by Leonardo Da Vinci. I started working on glitching this layer separately and then thought it would bind everything together. After this, I placed it on top of the other layers and did some cutting and displacement as well as overall colour correction.

This was a big jump from the last experiment: As previously mentioned, I wanted to create a harmonious colour scheme throughout the whole poster. I thought the poster lacked sophistication so I decided to muck around with a few different elements. In this experiment I have 3 layers, “The Creation of Adam”, “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” & “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889.

I altered each of the layers using tools such as: Liquify, Push left, Twirl clockwise, bloat, warp and pucker. Each of these tools were used erratically and each dimension was changed to a size I thought was appropriate. I also cropped several parts of the image to create a random sort of glitchy effect when layered with different opacities. I changed the hue to colours which were aqua and pink to show a different view not usually seen and to create a harmonious colour palette throughout the poster.

However, I felt the poster needed a bit more to bind everything together.

I decided that an overlay of split colours might look okay. At this stage I thought that I would want to use a lot of famous artworks and combine them together to create another one to show the creative potential of glitch.

From experiment I decided to add “The Creation of Adam” 1512 by Michelangelo. This turned out pretty cool. The saturation of colours is reminiscent of the vaporwave style. I like how the colours are split in both layers, however I still think it is too simple and there is a lot more room. I also think I want to create a harmonious colour scheme.

For this first experiment I picked one of my favourite artworks, “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Hokusai, 1832. I did some simple glitch work using blending options and duplication in Photoshop and created an RGB split, a common characteristic in glitching. I felt this was too simple so I want to add more to this.