mahtab

hi all
here is the link to have  access to my blog
http://mantabromiani.blogspot.com/

Amy

Aloha

Here's my presentation link:http://amyyanpingelingeling.blogspot.com/2011/08/presentation-format-for-xperience.html

Thank you:D

Viv

 i moved very often since the last 3 years, my room is getting more and more simple every time i moved. 

 

 i believe what you have in your room, are hightly representing the person who they are in personal character.

MAKE A CUP OF TEA

During this exercise is to explore the technique how to create a video.

There are many different kind of way for making tea all over the world and it is a way that they express the spirit of what they believe. Most of people have the experience of making tea. Through this exercise, everybody has developed various video of "make a cup of tea".

For me "make a cup of tea" is subconscious, easy and doesn’t need too much thinking, plus I like to make tea.

This is how I experience my home is, subconscious, easy and doesn’t need too much thinking, plus I like to be at home.

In the background music that I have edit with a jazz music, is the way that I put myself in as an characteristic which is casual and romantic.

STOP-MOTION



During this exercise, that I have keep using cups as the main object in the animation because I think it has a representation of resting when i am at home.

START TO BUILD MODEL

1:10 model 

before i start shooting the vedio, i spend a lot of time figur it out what is the film should be about?

my room? the definition of "home"? or is it about what do i think of my room?

the more i study my room and the more i talk about it.  i realise it is a space i thought its comfortable but it is not what happen in reality.   

this is a room which you cannot study well, rest well or even sleep well.

REAL AND UNREAL

this sceen is to represent unsettled, anxiety, and chaos.

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LIGHTING

this is the sceen that lighting comes through from the door way, it has bring out the contrast of the lighting and shadow. it is one of the representation of time change and create a two sides experience.

UNDERWATER SHOT

it has presented as a quietness and ideal peace in the vedio.  looking out to the bedroom space has shown as the desire of sober from the first person perspective.

ahmed

As I started documenting things I do in my home I came to realize that there are a lot of things that I take for granted. When I started filming my self-making a cup of tea I started realizing things I never noticed before, such as touch, smell, noise, emotions and memory. Every time I would make a cup of tea I would experience different things such as the smell of the steam brushing on my face, the different noises that occur from time to time and the thoughts and memories that come up in my mind, the smell that brings up all memories weather good or bad. Feeling the different surfaces weather cold, hot, rough, smooth or slippery. Watching the tea getting ready makes me zone out to this other world; I call it the interior of my thoughts. As soon as the hot tea touches my lips and the fragrances rush up my taste buds I would snap back to the real world.

As I got to know my home more and more I realized how quiet it was, something I never came across until I started filming my real space and my imaginary space (the journey from the noisy city to the quiet home). Every time I would walk home I would hear and sea things I never notice before but was always there like construction sites, the noise and smell of the rain, people walking and talking.  i started noticing sounds like the door squeak when I closed the door, the door slamming back, the door knob turning, the key sliding in to the lock, the carpet noise when I walk  and by body rubbing ageist the doona when I tuck my self into bed, the plait noise while doing the dished and other strange noises the come from the unknown. 

Constant Mok :D

Everyone have a home, home is something we can’t live without in our life. Home is a space for us to take a rest during a long journey. When we feel tired, there is always a place called Home for us to stay. When we away from home, we will miss home, we will feel homesick. This is something we can’t experience when we are at home.

In this studio we have tried to explore what is a Home. As an international student, I left my family and come to this unfamiliar space when I was 17. There is never a home for me in Melbourne. The places that I have lived in Melbourne I called it Temporary Home. This is the 1st time I leave home. Sometimes traveling or leaving home helps you to find how a home or a family means to you and how much you need them. Even an independent person still need a place called Home.

I moved from Homestay to stay with a friend, then I moved to stay with my boyfriend, and I moved again to live alone, and then I moved to share with my boyfriend and his friend, after that I stay with my friends for a short period of time. And now finally I settle down in a studio apartment with my boyfriend. Moving from house to house, I hardly found a place I called it HOME. The feeling of Home is also depends on how well you communicate with other members who you living with. They can make you feel comfort and love.

This is the HOME that I finally settle down in Melbourne.

Floor Plan of my house

my study area and the yard

my personal corner

 

Sketch Elevations Drawing from Journal

Sketch Plan Drawing from Journal

While we are exploring our house by drawing plans and making models, I understand more about my home in details. Knowing were the light mainly coming from and knowing the relationship between furniture. I have choose the sleeping area and study area for my model. I just simply use foam for the whole model. I didn't make any colour in it showing this is always just a temporary home space for me. But I did use colour on the bed, because this is a space I like to stay on most in my house and its also a space I create dream.

Model - My study area sharing with my boyfriend.

Model - my bedroom area

Model - my bed with 2 drawer under it.

Model - The only natural light coming in my room, there is a yard outside.

There is something we will just do at home, it usually a habit that we do daily. For example, I have to open the curtain and window every morning when I wake up. I have to have a cup of hot drink every night. I need to have vegetable and fruit in my refrigerator. I will clean my bathroom up every weekend. This is all I need to do or have in a house.
Refer to Exercise 2, I make a video about myself making a cup of tea. I have used the 1st person view in this video. That is what I usually have at night when I am doing assignments. It's mostly dark in the video as I often turn most of the light off at night. It was a tired night working time, and I recorded everything slower and sometimes blurry showing my feeling in the video as well. As it is a daily process, the video is not really well designed but its really showing something real.
In this exercise, I think I can use something to help me hold the camera, in order for me showng both of my hands in it. Then the whole tea making video will be more smooth.

Document page from Journal

video images - when I took the cup down fro the cupboard.

video images - the most time consuming process is waiting the water boiled.

video images - after pouring water in the cup, I moving the tea bag in order to make the tea brew.

video images - I bring my cup of tea back to my desk and start my assignment again.

Home may be is a country, or a smell, or a song. For me, HOME is always a place with my lovely family. It’s a place or a house where I can feel warm and secure. Family is always someone never leaving you, no matter what. I can't bring my family along with me to Melbourne, so I bring some memorable belongings with me while I travel. That’s usually the 1st thing I will sit it up when I move to a new house here. I am using object to create a Homely feeling for this space.
In Exercise 3, we are doing a stop animation video. I have documented how I remove my personal memorable stuff away from the bookshelf top and clean the surface then put them on again. After the feedback of the tea video, I tried to use tripod in this video. I really enjoy this film making process.

Document of Video in Journel

House is a physical place that you can touch, and stay in, but not every house you will call it home. Turn a house to a home is when we start feeling you belong to that place. Create a home is also about memory. In those few moving experience, every time when I pick up and leave, memory will pop up in my mind. It is because that space starts building up a memory in my heart and growing to a HOME. There are a lots happening in our life and most of the time we experience them when we are at home.
The last video I made for this brief is about a cat living in my home before but he is no longer here. I named it "The pipedream". My friend was once away, and want us to take care his cat. My boyfriend and I always want to have a cat. This is also why we really treasure the time being with it. The video start from reality to memory then back to reality. In the reality part, I start with images of the real space to the model. I want to show that with out the kitten there, the house even with my stuffs sometimes just like a blank white space for me as we see in the model.

In this exercise, I have tried something I have not done before, which is recording sounds. I have record sounds from my music box for edit in the cat documentary part, and sound of my alarm which editing in the middle of memory back to reality. Then I also recorded the high heel walking to a door and door close sound, putting at the end of the video.

video image - under the desk is some where the kitten like to hide himself under it. (model)

video image - I have make 2 video overlap, showing its just a memory, not happening in real

video image - more dramatic images overlapped, and i also added old video effect in the memory part

video image - I have use the same low angle for the image and the video

video image - bring everyone to the white model to end the video

This is a very interesting brief so far, I like sharing my experience with classmates and getting feedback. By chatting with them my ideas build up. I enjoy doing the video especially the stop motion animation. They are really amazing when you joining all the images together. I would like to try something more about it in the rest of the semester.