Final Video Project

Blog #2 - Soundwalk

Sound Walk

For my blog I spent some time in the neighborhood that I work, Park Slope. I work on Fifth Ave not too far from the new Barclay Center. I walked around the neighborhood at 2pm when I got off work. It was this past weekend so in some cases certain establishments were still recovering from Sandy. There were a lot of sounds of delivery trucks loading and unloading, a lot of honking and men yelling indistinguishable words to their counterparts. The neighborhood is very bike heavy and ringing of bike bells are frequent.

It seemed to be that the neighborhood was trying to get themselves ready for work since they have pretty much been off for the week due to Sandy. The sounds I heard were mostly quick and fast. The texture seemed to be rough and abrupt. I felt like I was in everyone’s way when really I was nowhere close to anyone.

The sounds of the neighborhood were reflecting on the time of day, on a weekend people wake up late and tend to do their business quicker in order to plan for their night on the town. The bike sounds were startling to me since I ride my bike to work and never realized how many people used their bell, or voice to warn those they are around. While I make all the same sounds, I only concentrate on what I am doing, not how it sounds when we all come together to make our own form of “traffic” if you will.

The background sound seemed to be the chatter of folks, the more dominate would be the traffic sounds and the most prevalent foreground sounds were those delivery trucks who were working a long day and had to be loud on the sidewalk to get their job done. I think this all would have been completely different if Sandy hadn’t had happened. 

Audio Assignment

Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet. Extra Credit Assignment

Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet.

Martin Lucas

This movie examined the financial situation of two different cities in the late 1970's. the two cities that Lucas concentrated on was Cleveland and New York. Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet.

Martin Lucas

This movie examined the financial situation of two different cities in the late 1970's. the two cities that Lucas concentrated on was Cleveland and New York. At the beginning of the movie there was a lot of information to grab onto but as the movie panned out I started to understand more about the financial and political structure of the two cities. 

I like how the filmed used characters to drive the story, in New York it was the citizens in Greenpoint and the fire houses, in Cleveland it was the historic mayor who refused to sign the city of Cleveland over to the banks. The pop up facts and text narration between the shots and stories really helped me understand the dire state that these cities are in. The most emotional part of the film was when they went into the

I was really interested in the editing process because it was a 16'' reel and I have only edited on digital footage. The question and answer session afterwards with Prof. Lucas was 

At the beginning of the movie there was a lot of information to grab onto but as the movie panned out I started to understand more about the financial and political structure of the two cities. 

I like how the filmed used characters to drive the story, in New York it was the citizens in Greenpoint and the fire houses, in Cleveland it was the historic mayor who refused to sign the city of Cleveland over to the banks. The pop up facts and text narration between the shots and stories really helped me understand the dire state that these cities are in. The most emotional part of the film was when they went into the hospitals and daycares that are in the process of closing down, or are closed down. it was very interesting to see how those are the first things to go when a city looses money. As well as the CUNY system not being free anymore. 

I was really interested in the editing process because it was a 16'' reel and I have only edited on digital footage. The question and answer session afterwards with Prof. Lucas connected a lot of dots when he was talking. How the editing process was, how he pieced the composer, the narrator, his crew etc. Over all it was alerting that this movie related so much to the financial and political status that the city is in today. 

Media 160 Kasey Burgess Define a Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI4mYJnE_ms&feature=youtu.be

Media 160 Lecture #5 Assignment

Blog Assignment #2

I chose a clip from the movie Breathless, a 1960’s French film. This clip  is the end of the movie so the shots display the last emotions of the characters. The gangsters at the beginning of this scene are looking to kill, the shots are long shots of them in the car and of them shooting Antonio, the main character. The movie thus far has been light but also full of emotion and dramatic scenes between characters, I feel like this shot lets us look and take everything in at once to end the story.

Long shots are used to show  Antonio running away after he is shot. They never show his front while he is running away nor do they zoom in. the camera position is shaky, just like his running. When the camera cuts to Patricia, they use close-ups as well as medium shots, in order to show her emotion. Since both characters have been emotionally involved the whole movie, these distinctive shots are used to separate them.

The music in the background is used to amplify his running after he is shot. The worse he gets the more intense the movie gets. The music softens at the end after he dies.

There is no color and the lighting is natural. Interesting, since many times in movies deaths are set in the dark. Overall thsi scene isn't set in a way that traditional movies are shot for a dramatic ending, which is why I like it, it has minimal close-ups and the camera cuts lightly, not over dramaticly.

Breathless Scene

Media 160 Artist Statement

Art is meant to be seen without filters, touch-ups or air brushing. Art is raw and it has to be the truth to what it is meant to shows. Art can be used to inform us about what we don’t want to see, such as a photograph that makes us uncomfortable or a sculpture of an imperfect body. I’m interested in what makes people feel like they shouldn’t be looking at what they see, what makes people question the information in front of them. Live theater gives art a place to breath but at the same time be as structured as another medium theater allows people to go to another lace in a more real setting then a movie, since it is live and unfiltered. 
My art is to inform and to question the information we are given. 
My art might not always tell the truth but it is up to you to decide what you would like to believe. My art relates to theater in the way in which what you see is what you get. There is no hiding behind the glory of editing. My art isn’t always defined by what medium it is categorized in, but what it means behind the material. It isn’t always user friendly but it never tries to be something it is not. My art might be something that one has seen before but just like a performance, it might have been done before, no scene is the same twice, no matter who is behind it.
KC.B