Take 1!

Over the past couple days I have collected video for the project. It was a bit more difficult than I thought, especially since the daylight hours are getting shorter and most of my filming was done at night. I also was also looking for certain specifications:

1. The object had to be dark, and the background light (or opposite for a reverse effect)
2. It had to match the angle/curvature of a section on the face

Since these objects were a bit difficult to find, I couldn’t be picky with what I chose, so there isn’t much “meaning” behind the footage. But here is my first attempt at creating a digital silhouette.

Here is a list of clips you see in the video mosaic:

• My comforter (bottom of nose and mouth)
• Outdoor clock at IU (chin/neck)
• Jeans on top of white clothing (back of head)
• Fish statue at IU fountain (back of neck)
• Vinyl record on top of its cover (top of head, forehead)
• Leaves (middle of head)
• Antique vanity (nose, forehead)

Few color corrections and cropping were done to create unity and to soften edges.

In my next attempts in this endeavor I am going to:

•  seek for better, meaningful, unified, footage;
• use a tripod;
• study the face and sync the movements of the footage with real facial movements;
• tweak the organization to make the image look more like a profile.

~ by amberkim on October 11, 2007.