Blog #5

Hello there,
WARNING--If you are in my group for the exquisite corpse project please do not read, I don't want to ruin the outcome of this project.

I have just started working on the exquisite corpse project and I can tell this is going to be a difficult one. I always used to play that game where you would draw the head and fold the paper over and the next person would draw the body and so on, so I was really excited to hear that our project was going to be based on that idea. With the subject strangeness being such a broad topic it was really hard to narrow down what I wanted to do. The ten second clip that a group member gave me was of a woman smiling in kind of a deranged way. This clip made me feel like she was the cause of some strangeness going on, so that is what I had to work with for my idea.

To start brainstorming I tried to think of somethings that happens normally and how it could be altered to be strange. One idea I had was that the woman from the last clip would take a picture of herself and put it on a 'Wanted: Missing Girl' sign and have her blatantly walk in front or near the sign and have no one notice that she was the one missing. I got really excited about this idea but because I didn't know the girl that my partner used for her clip, I needed to think of an idea that didn't actually have that girl in it. I brainstormed some more and came up with the idea of making nature have industrial-like sounds. I thought that would be a good way of taking something normal and making it strange. To transition from the girl to this nature-industry scene I will have the girls arm(this way I don't have to use the same person) put a plug into a tree. At that moment there is a zap of electricity from the plug to the tree. Once that happens I will have consecutive clips of nature making industrial like sounds. Not only will the nature be making these sounds but I also want to edit the clips to have effects on them to make them look less natural. I will try my best to make what looks and sounds natural and pure to look and sound industrial and synthesized.

To start out this process I started filming different things in nature, the bark of a tree, water rippling, some flowers, leafy plants. etc. Now I am in the process of uploading industrial sounds onto final cut and playing a matching game of images and sounds. I have done some slight editing and color alterations of the clips but I still have a lot to work on.

I will keep you guys posted on how I end up bringing everything together and I am still yet to receive my second ten second clip so I haven't started brainstorming on what I am going to do for that one yet either. Still have a lot to go but hopefully it will all come together.

Thanks for reading!

Gina Kirkish