Video Installation theory

Video Installation Theory

First thing i did was i looked up some Artist that use Video Installation on youtube and i looked at their worked. I looked at a guy called Doug Aitken and his work is something amazing and interesting. I think the message he was trying to give out in his video is the fact they are loads of ways you can use art and make it creative instead of just simple things and he would work on some projects of his for years to plan and make them perfect and unique to anything else and the give himself new creative options when making his project.

There was his project called Station to station where him and his crew went on a train and went through all the different places in the United states to find all these different type of artist ect. To be honest I really liked it and it showed me that creativity is everywhere and everyone has it. I think Doug is creative and his work is unique and they look really interesting to watch.

I think the equipment he needed was a camera for sure and also he would of needed was a very top of the range camera maybe like a C100 because that is an amazing camera for the type of stuff he is doing in that particular project. Also for the start he would of needed a few screens with loops of the video that he made just as a background. I think he would of need Adobe Premier or some other professional software to edit this project and maybe Adobe After Effects for some minor tweeks and probably will some sort of sound editing software like Adobe Audition or something similar to that.

Video Installation planning and evaluation

Video Installation Planning and Evaluation 

My original idea was the make a car go from one block to another block and then looping it so it keeps going by itself. I wanted to do this idea because it was simple and if i attempted it I think it would of looked okay. I changed my idea last minutes because i ran out of the time to do this assignment and i had to deal with a lot of stress because i was behind in my college assignments so i wanted to do the easiest thing.

One idea I had was a gun travelling in the air in slow motion towards the target and when the bullet hits the target the blocks go to a dark red colour which stands for blood but i couldn't do that one because it sounded more complicated as I planned to do it and i gave up because it was to time consuming and it was just wasting time instead of getting a simple idea and making it as fast as I can so i didn't miss the deadline like i did anyway

My choice of Installation of very limited because one of the Tutors Kevin was looking all over for the equipment which we needed. He brought up the projector which I needed and the laptop but the problem was they wasn't any power supply for the projector so i couldn't use it. So my only alternative was to do a short show reel of my work that i could advertise in a specific place in the college. The specific place I have chosen was the TV's around the college and it is good because when people walk past they can look at the TV and because the show reel is only on for a minutes they can watch it while they walk past.

I think my video installation is good and it is short which is good for the location i have decided to aim my installation for which is the TV areas near reception so i can put my work on the tv so that people can watch when they are walking past. I did have some problems with this assignment and one of the major ones was the fact i wasn't able to use the projector because of lack of equipment that was available to use. So one of the tutors said just to make a show reel and make sure you talk about it in the written documents.

Screenshots of the steps:

Then I exported it as mp4