Our third year students were lucky enough to have their portfolios revived by a number of guest designers from local agencies. A massive thank you to everyone that took park, A brilliant oppurtunity for the students before they take the next step into industry
Screenshots from the video
Concept for the Video: The Power of Spoken Word
A few screenshots from my editing and testing of the videos. I felt that using the type of the posters would be harder to intergrade with my current moving image idea of it moving with speech. as I would using more spoken words than I presented, I thought it would be a good idea to manipulate the title. I create “the yellow wallpaper” title and projected in on the screen, which was then manipulated whilst I read chosen passages. The idea is for video to first appear as static, but moves when the narrator talks about the creeping of the woman behind the wallpaper. The video will also show the deterioration of the mental condition and how the narrator saw the figure (shaky).
The video would be complemented by a creepy 1800′s instrumental which would set the scene and tonality for the audience as the narrator speaks the words.
The Newly Developed Idea.
After much consideration, I thought that my project needed more context instead of creating these typographic light experiments just for visual pleasure. My idea was to use the images and videos I create as a promotional tool for the novel at a current arts festival called “Hay Festival” (26th May - 5th June 2016). The idea was to promote the yellow wallpaper as featured spoke performance at the festival, whereby I would create promotional posters of the stills showing a development in her deterioration, as well as video echoing a voice-over showing how the moving image could work. The video would also give viewers the incite into the feel and emotive of the performance, giving audience the opportunity to understand what the performance will be like.
The video and posters will show the viewer an understanding of her mental state and visual represent the narrators script (seeing things shaky by the woman behind the paper).
The promotional tools will also be accommodated by a flyer or program given to the attending audience, similar to what you would find at a museum.
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for ten days from May to June. Devised by Norman and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as “The Woodstock of the mind”.Tony Benn said: “In my mind it’s replaced Christmas”. Florence continues to be director of the Festival.
I looked to put these particular poster design ideas into context; I understood that these posters needed much more contextually and purpose by adding more information about the event feature and important dates.
A few interesting stills from my current Moholy light experiment. The Images in each poster will slowly get larger and will become harder to read (stills). I am thinking of accommodating these posters will a video moving image of the title (the yellow wallpaper) which moves when words are spoken.
How I can adapt my concept through the notion of a arts festival. The idea is to design featured poster for the yellow wallpaper and act that it will feature at the festival.
I tried to put the work into context by creating a poster for the hay festival.
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