Final Images from Thesis Project

After many hours of sound construction, color correction and text editing, Summer Diary 2014 will be shown at the LUCAD Graduate Exhibition from Monday, June 22 through Saturday, June 27, at the Roberts Gallery in the Lunder Arts Center. Heddi and I tested it at the gallery last week. It looked beautiful projected on the wall, however, in the context of a group exhibition, I would not be able to use sound with the projector in the main gallery. There is only one speaker system connected to the projectors, and the sound would be heard throughout the entire space, interfering with other students' work. I could project it with sound in the smaller gallery, but then I would be isolated from the main exhibition. So I opted for a 55-inch monitor mounted to the wall and a conical sound device suspended from the ceiling in the main gallery. According to Ben, "It's good to be included in the larger show, especially during the opening. Your video piece also has the advantage of having subtitles, which are eye catching, so viewers can follow it within a social setting." 

Here is a selection of film stills from the final version:

Thesis Project: "Summer Diary 2014"

During the last few months I've been experimenting with different visualization techniques and devices for my thesis project Summer Diary 2014, about my experience living in Israel last summer during the war with Gaza. Heddi Siebel, my mentor, has suggested different options:

1. Include dates in the news crawl to reflect that it's a personal journal;
2. Be more revealing about how I feel; 
3. Float big blocks of text over the landscape;
4. Find and use news cast sound and footage;
5. Try voiceover instead of the news crawl;
6. Put a translucent band under news crawl;
7. Include a hook or a thesis in the beginning;
8. Play with rhythms of images and text. The text is sometimes spot on, which makes it interesting. At other times, there's dissonance between image and text. Does the length of the image work?
9. Take out the names of places.