Portrait of a Voyeur by Kelly Anderson

-completed 12-15-06
-clip duration: 53 sec.

My video took form the form of a exhibition of the act of looking and the unsettling and disturbing aspects of voyeurism. I used a wide variety of slow edits and barely any movement to a lot of flashing images and an abundance of movement. The idea was to experiment with the typical conventions of horror flicks and the sort and play with how an audience views these conventions and what makes them unsettling. The audio was the icing on the cake. I used a lot of distorted amibent noises and ones that might make an audience tense and uneasy.

Project 3 Video, Light Capturing Trek (11-19-06)

I shot north in the Shorewood neighborhoods and lakefront. There were a lot of piers and wooded areas that I wanted to explore. There were a lot of unexplored territories in the Nature Preserve that I was interested in navigating.

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Setting #1:
I went out looking for settings that I could focus on with different exposures and play with colors and the relaitonship of the forground to the background. These setting felt right to me because I was looking forward to exploring the eerie and ominous sounds with my video. I found a lot of desolate seeming pictures and a lot of stills where it feels like something is missing or something should be happenning.

Setting #2:
I also wanted to found some places that I would only want to photograph, not be in. I wanted to find pictures of enclosed areas and places that would make me feel constricted.

Production Strategy #1:
I went out looking for images that I thought would look better in black and white.

Production Startegy #2:
I wanted pictures of things that felt contricting, suffocating and cold

...I realized after looking over my stills that I was beginning to look at scenarios differently and find things about them that inspire me to keep evolving as an artist...

Project 3 Video, Sound Trek (11-17-06)

In order to capture the sound I was looking for I went south to the dowtown Milwaukee, more specifically at night. There are some interesting alleways and spots right over the river that I was very interested in recording. I spent hours down there, finding it hard to get new sounds, but the longer I stayed, the more I felt like I was meant to be recording everything I heard. Suddenly everything I had been hearing sounded different and new because I had focused on the more subtle intracacies of everyday sound. I honestly felt like I was evolving as an artist and my curiosities about how to expand as an artist were realized.

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Soundscape #1:

I started trekking looking for sparse and ominous sounds where there was no need for constant commotion, sounds that felt eerily still. I found a lot of sounds that made me think about some sort of presence that I couldn't figure out, something that made me feel uneasy. I was glad to find many sounds that applied well to my visual concepts being the metaphorical supernatural or unreal.

Soundscape #2:

I was planning on finding sounds that violently opposed to the ominous ones I had found earlier but I found something different. I found opposing forces in sounds that were simply comparable to my bland yet eerie sounds. I recrded some material that was blatantly unsettling but it still had that feeling of ominimity, I couldn't figure out what made feel unsettled by these sounds.