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Sketch
Reflect on Gaga’s sketch
Reflect on gaga’s ‘sketch 14’. In this sketch, I like her editing idea, which is full of relaxation, optimism and humorous style. As she said, the video effect was made in iMovie. It was a quite simple and easy app to use. I can’t watch her original footage but I can image that it was a totally different style than after editing.
Mobile simplified the three basic stages of film-making, pre-production, production, and post-production. The mobile phone affords to combine the three stages at once. This idea was applied in her some of her sketches. I think this is a good method to create new things that you don’t have to put lots of affords on preproduction.
I think the thing she needs to improve is the sound. she should consider
Reflect on Cheng’s sketch
All of Cheng’s sketch is to snoop something happened behind her on the sly. Today, a mobile phone has become an ordinary device that everybody can use it in anytime. Nobody will care about what she was doing with a mobile phone. She continued her idea of use the same angle and composition in the second research.
I picked up her sketch 17. The video sketch was a random event, she already made a rule which is culture the world behind her. After lots of random experiment, she may find what she wants to achieve. These random events can be related to our research question that she uses sketches to demonstrate ‘portaflexbility’ . She could try to use a normal or slow mode that leaves an enough space or time for the audience to consider more.
Reflect on Mark’s ‘Sea Light’
I reviewed all his sketches, and I prefer this ‘sea light’. His idea was similar as me, which takes the advantages of the small size of a mobile phone that you can put on any kind of subjects as a gel or filter. He made the connection between a creative video and the affordance of ‘portaflexbility’ of mobile phones. He did this sketch to examining and exploring the implications of making an artistic vision by a mobile phone, and he did a great job. His perspective and the colour of the video are the highlights of his sketch.
However, I found out there is no sound in his sketch. I don’t understand why he gets rid of the sound. If there is a sound to help the picture to express a stronger feeling of capricious lights in the sea. I think he could use sound design to add an additional atmosphere of his sketch, and make it more complete.
Reflect on Shu’s sketch
Shu’s sketch 6 will be the most attractive one for me. I love matcha crepe cake so much, but this is not the main reason. She was making a cake using her right hand and film herself with her left hand at the same time. Meanwhile, she also can watch her action with her mobile screen. I found out that mobile only needs one hand to operate it which related to our research question. The sketch demonstrated the affordance of ‘portaflexbility’ by doing two actions at the same time. She actually found a very specific point of view. The everyday life of her can be so interesting by recording it and review it in the future.
I am thinking if she can use two mobile mob running armband and tie two mobile on each of her arms. She can just do what she wants to do. That is great that the camera can capture her daily life in a day if she running typing or cooking. The mobile will record everything she did. I think in the postproduction stage she can combine two videos together that will be a nice sketch. I think I will try this idea in my next sketch.
Walking
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This idea was taken from Shu’s sketch, but it also related to my individual understanding of our research question, which the mobile supports multiple angles that can be a grounding of improvisation.
I used two mobile mob-running armbands and tied it on each of my arms when I was walking from balcony to my room, and I turn on the camera then just doing my stuff, I tried three modes, slow motion time-lapse and normal mode. I found out that normal mode was the best because it looks clear and I am easy to catch up, it also showed the movement of my arms.
The video was the like an eye on my arm, I found it was a very interesting angle, I would never see it if I am not using a mobile to record it.
In the editing process, I combined two videos as one with Adobe premiere. It allowed me to watch the action in two arms at the same time.
I think this action may not attractive and creative enough. I should improve the originality and the multiplicity by thinking in a divergent way. This one was my last sketch, through this process I think I opened to a whole new way of thinking, and my creation has become more interesting to compare with the very first sketch. I enjoyed the self-learning and group learning process.
Smoke
Smoke from Leila Wang on Vimeo.
In this sketch, I used an app called motionFX in mac book. This app is able to create stunning video effects using my computer’s camera. I presented an effect which is face tracking, and I just simply folded and unfold my laptop screen multiple times so that the focus of my face was changed. I used my mobile to captured the moment that I played with this app.
This idea started with the fourth sketch ‘poping color’. The mobile affords us to do two things even more at the same time. In this sketch I was holding my phone, at the same time, I folded my computer screen. This was the mean reason why it is flexible. Now, people all have multiple devices, so the mobile phone will be the best way to film what you are doing with another device. I think this would be a good way to demonstrate our affordance of ‘portaflexbility’.
Lipsticks
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This video sketch was taken on the way from building 9 to back home and it was an extemporization. I was getting out my lipstick but I just put lipstick on my mobile phone’s camera. The visual became blurry, it was like an impressionistic painting. I hold my phone and I filming the lights at night. The beautiful halos is formed by the ‘lipstick filter.’
However, the light at night was not adequate, I should improve it by focusing on the dark part of the frame to raise the Brightness of the lights.
I think this sketch used mobile phone’s flexibility that I can put lipsticks on the camera as a filter and it also use mobile phone’s portability that I can film when I was walking and capture an everyday routine action in a creative way.
Brilliancy
Brilliancy from Leila Wang on Vimeo.
This sketch was taken in the classroom, I accidentally find a box of solid surface material samples. I placed my phone on the cabinet and the cameras towards the ground. I borrowed another phone from my friend and turned on the light of her phone, then I placed different materials on the light. It showed a beautiful halo when the light go through the material, I felt like I was a gemologist and I was checking all the gemstones.
The sketch took the idea from ‘snow’ that I can place a filter in front of the camera. this time, the filter was solid materials and the subject was the light. The materials showed the different quality when the light go through them. I like the soft color when the light hit the solid materials.
In terms of the affordances, I took the advantages of the portable size of a mobile, and it allows me to film in a limited space. Furthermore, the mobile allows me to place a filter on it, which is the solid material this time. The mobile can easily create random video works; it can be a inspiration recorder when you in preproduction stage.
The Conjuring
The Conjuring from Leila Wang on Vimeo.
I made a rule for this sketch that I only can film something in the classroom, just like before I was filming in the car.
This is the third sketch of the classroom rule. I put my mobile on the top of a swivel chair and I was rolling it, my friends put her hands in the frame, so I did the same thing as she did. The outcome was amazing, it looks like a horror movie. The three hands give me an expression of magic illusion, and legerdemain.
This was my second sketch that uses look-up angle (the first one was ‘hypnosis’), I found this angle was very interesting and we barely look up to see the world above that, but our phone can record it for us. It shows the affordance of ‘portaflexbility’, and I demonstrated it by using multiple angles to film a subject. This sketch was an great experiments, and it is also an improvisation video. However, the sound in this sketch was not helping the visual. I think I should add sound effects to make it alive.
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