Week 1 Blog


Today we watched a short clip that I found very interesting in many different ways.  It was obviously originally made on film and then turned into a digital format. I’m not 100% sure what kind of film was used, but it seemed like some that is readily available for anyone to obtain. There were many different colors, patterns, and shapes throughout the film that corresponded to the type of music that was playing in the background.  Each time an instrument played a certain color and or shape would appear on the film. Whenever a new instrument was introduced I would notice that a new shape would be as well.  The film could have been considered a music video, that was in a sort of avant-garde style. I also feel like the music could have been trying to portray some sort of emotions, which is further backed by the colors, patterns and shapes shown with each sound. If it was not trying to do this I think that the creator was trying to give a visual representation of sound or an audible representation of color, which is something that most normal people cannot understand. I know that there are some people that say that they can hear, taste, smell colors.  Maybe the creator wanted normal people to understand what those people go through. I think that the creator of this film made it by using paints and oils on a film strip along with other types of methods to warp and distort the film.  This is something that I have done in several of my film classes so far, which honestly is incredibly easy to do.  Regardless of what is trying to be conveyed with this short film, it would still be very interesting, and a great piece of art left for those to interpret.

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