instead of using the iPad, i tried it with the iPhone as well, this meant a slightly smaller screen. I'm not sure which one i prefer.

I played the video on loop on my ipad and positioned it inside of a kit bag, at the side of the bag, and i positioned the bag in the corner of the room. this meant that the video wasn't visable until you walked up to the bag and looked inside it. This idea worked well.

Unfolding Aryan Papers: a documentary about Kubrick's unmade film

This film made by Jane and Louise Wilson, is a documentary type film about a film that was planned to be made, but never ended up being made. They managed to meet up with the woman who was supposed to be the leading actress and got her involved in their film. 

What I like about this is the collaboration of images and film of the actress, and then the actresses voice documenting what happened over the top. The images are visualising what she is saying. This works really well. Voice over is something I would like to try in the future in my own work, maybe going down the emotions route again. 

Documentary in my work

As I stated in my last post, my work has elements of documentary. Capturing moments which happen in real life is something that really interests me, capturing real emotions on camera. I want to capture the truth, how things really are. This has been exactly what I have done in my collaboration project with the Boxing Club, nothing was acted out, nothing was planned, I just got my camera out and took pictures or videos of what was happening. However some of my previous work where I have put my go pro on my head and then took a video of me punching the bag, or for example when I asked some one to video me whilst I was skipping is not really documentary, as it is staged, it was planned because I was mainly interested in movement.
I have used some of the footage that I took as part of my collaboration project and used it in my own work. for example my video piece 'The Come Down of Loosing' which is a slowed down clip of Milo Clay in the changing rooms upset after loosing his championship fight. This is definitely the direction I am now going to be going in, when I have finished my collaboration project I think I will stay with the idea of documentary. I love this idea of capturing emotions, real emotions, and then showing the emotions to an audience. 

Thinking about documentary and stories, I thought back to Tracey Emins video piece - why I never became a dancer, in which she tells a story of her past, alongside a super 8 film of margate which is where the events happened.

I like this idea of videoing real life, because in a way it is what i have been doing with my boxing collaboration, capturing moments that happen in real life, they aren't acted out, they are the truth. 

Elizabeth Price

I came across this artist called Elizabeth Price today, and I find this particular piece of work 'The woolworths Choir of 1979' very interesting. I like that it is almost like a documentary piece, it is documenting an event. What I also like about it was the duplicate images and how they flash on and off, and this fits in with the clicks that are heard on the audio. Visualy a very exciting piece, and engaging. 

As Charlie Connaughton prepared to get in the ring, I filmed him on my go pro camera, and asked him how he was feeling before the fight, and then again after.

After his fight he was uncontrollably happy, absolutely buzzing with excitement, and you can see this at the end of the video when he is talking to the camera. Before the fight we can also see the nerves, this is what I am becoming increasingly interested in, the emotions of a boxer.

Douglas Gordon - Phantom 2011

'I think it's supposed to be about provoking enough of a memory that people take it away and do their own thing with it. For me, artwork... is something that you should be able to take away—you don't have to be present in front of it, and that's the potency of the artwork when it works.' —Douglas Gordon
This is a video of an eye, covered in black makeup, crying. The video is also in slow motion, and the slow motion makes the crying eye seem even more emotional to the viewer, its very intense sadness. What captured me about this piece is that I can relate this to my own work. Douglas Gordon is working with slow motion, which I also use often in my work, and also he is looking at emotions, which is something I am also becoming increasingly interested in. I like this idea also of provoking a memory that he talks of above in the quote, or provoking an emotion from the viewer.

Douglas Gordon - Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now

Looking at multiple videos I came across Douglas Gordon, who in this piece displayed lots of different video pieces all on different monitors. They are all of a similar size, but all slightly different which is interesting. Some of the monitors had headphones, and some were just silent. This visually is a very exciting piece, with lots of different movements happening on all of the screens.

Multiple screens.

Following the last post about having multiple projections, I talked about how I wanted to incorporated projection and monitors, and I have found this video showing how Bruce Nauman did just that. The use of projection and monitors is proven to work in this video, this is something I will try myself. He is focusing on movement in his videos, and repetition. This is something which is also of an interest to me. 

Third Party - Sam Taylor Wood

I am still very interested in displaying videos on multiple projections or screens. This piece by Sam Taylor-Wood caught my attention as she is not only using multiple projections, but she is using different sized projections as well. This is something i would like to try, either as projections or on monitors, or maybe mix the two together. 

Two Screen Projection

This is a short clip of a two screen projection i did. Both projecton's are the same video clip, however I reduced the speed of the one on the left hand side to 50% and the one on the right to 25%. So they are both in slow motion but at different speeds. I was just looking at how the different speeds looked projected side by side.

The Warm up.

 This is a video that i made a while back. It goes with the video 'The Come Down of Loosing'. This was the video of the warm up before the fight, before he lost. I like the different emotion shown in each video, the contrast.