Project 4 Update

I have been having trouble with this project for a while, trying to carry the fluxus influence through my work. The way I understand it to be, is that the fluxus movement is art that is accessible to everyone and can be seen through the everyday.
Because of this, I decided that I wanted to explore my daily movements and everyday life. I want the audience to have a connection with what I feel on the daily, and be able to interpret it. The idea I have behind the experimental video is documenting through physical movements the common feelings I have throughout a normal day. I'm not sure if I want to create any voice commentaries or not.

In-Progress: Project 4

This project is challenging, but I'm feeling good about it.  This seems to be turning into a statement on the fashion industry to create a vision of the contemporary woman that ignores what is natural, and favors what is fabricated and camouflaged. All of the photos and video were uploaded into Final Cut Pro, and it turns out there is more than enough to work with my 1 look, so now I have to edit it and enhance it.  The transformation is detailed enough so that it feels like a few separate looks.  There are a couple of times in the video where it looks like the video will end, but depending on which direction I play the video, the look keeps being added to or subtracted from.
    The sound will consist of beauty tips I find in online tutorials or in fashion magazines to tie the subject of beauty and perfection into a unified piece.  I plan to put a filter on the sound, perhaps to make the the human voice sound inhuman to illustrate an unattainable strain of perfection, and to gradually layer the sound so the viewer is assaulted with 10 beauty tips at once.

In-Progress Report (Take 2)

    Tatyana and I are still following the journey of Play-Doh shoes, but we changed the setting from an outdoor scene, to a kitchen scene where the two shoes are travelling through an obstacle-ridden journey to meet for coffee.  During the in-class critique, we discussed how we didn't want the lighting to change with the time of day.  With an indoor setting, we are able to control the weather and lighting, thus preventing either factors from adding unintentional meanings to our concept.  We also felt we could be more expressive with the obstacles the shoes were presented with.  Also, we decided against using two pairs of shoes, and are instead having each character be portrayed as a single shoe.  Dil is a pink shoe with blue laces, and Duh's color scheme is inverted with pink laces on a blue shoe.  Using only two shoes adds to the meaning of their journey, coming together so they can be a single pair.  Lastly, we added an owl figurine that lurks in the background throughout the piece, not only serving as an obstacle himself, but suggesting that he is the one creating all of the obstacles for Dil and Duh.