New and Improved

This would be my newest draft of Hands!

Sailing Away

This would be the final draft of my mobile.  I had lots of complications when it came to attaching the “sail” to the wire, mostly with bending the paper more then I wanted.  But I finally came up with a solution.  Its still hanging a little bit weird so I might fix that, but overall I am really happy with how it turned out.

The end is near

For my final design project, I would like to improve my “Hands” video.  Instead of trying to focus on one person, I would use the people who enter into my daily life.  I would still be focusing on hands, but I want to do tighter shots and actually know what they are doing.  Examples of what I will do is I would just take footage of the people who are in my classes, who I eat breakfast lunch and dinner with, the people I hangout with outside of class, and anything else that I might do in my day.  I would start from in the morning of course, and then proceed throughout the day.  I have been thinking of whether or not I should what time it is or not.

The biggest thing that I think I need to work on for this project will be the audio, I like the idea of maybe having certain footage overlap one another.  I know that I want to take lots of audio of typing and pages turning because those are things that our hands make everyday and it will be something that the viewer will really understand.

Hands

So this would be the product of what I have learned about Final Cut Express. I call it Hands.

There is an I in team

Courtesy of the Daily What via Tumblr.

Final Cut Express

So today in class we are going to be learning how to work with final cut express.  For my footage I decided to film a couple of my friends, but instead of their faces, the only thing you could see is their hands.  I wanted to do this because I was interested in what people do with their hands when they are performing everyday tasks.  Most people do not see or even pay attention to this.  So we will see how working with the new software is!

And once more with feeling….

After this somewhat uneventful Halloween weekend, coming back to this project was interesting.  I was thinking back on all the comments during the critique, and I really liked the idea of it being a puddle or ripples in a pond.  And through that I decided that the images and the text needed to be divided into the sides of the mobile. 

With this I wanted to make the “images” actually look like ripples, and its a little bit easier to see with the text side.  Once I have it completely all together on the wire, I will post a picture of it.

So here is the final image for my mobile, I haven’t completed the mobile yet just because the printer won’t print the size I want.  But I am very excited, I have made the top part of the mobile by braiding wire and bending it into an arch shape. I plan on the making  another braided section of wire to wrap around the image above.

My little fleet

So today I basically worked on an image of a boat that I want to use for the mobile.  Here is just one of the images that I made today.  One I had made my boat I wanted to play around with color and what I might use.  I was having a little bit of difficulty adjusting it, so I didn’t get as far as I would have liked to.  But next time I will be incorporating the text with the image. Then I will decide what I want the shape of the mobile to be.

Our Boat Living

We will braid our hair

Live on the water

At night, we lay down

and drink, then into the waves

where we’ll leave our pretty dresses behind

Secret lip tattoos, and lies to keep the rest of the world satisfied

The morning sun sets our hair ablaze, and I nudge you awake

I leave to get us coffee and cheesy crepes

Coming back into our hide-away, tell you all of the morning gossip

pick out clothes for you to wear

We have guests tonight

Evan Williams, bottles of wine, corona and lime

In the water, my hair has gotten longer

hold my breath for as long as I can and feel my arms escape from me

Stomach gone concave, ribs bursting open

Look, my nose is opening for the moon, straight towards the sky

And I can hear them all leave, close my eyes,

they want to stay but you won’t let them

I don’t mind

that much.