Project 2

After spending a long time looking at video art other people have done and exploring different ideas I finally came up with one that I was passionate about. Throughout this project one of the things that I really learned was how important it is to pinpoint your passion and then create your art from there. I had originally wanted to create some sort of mysterious creepy video with strange effects, but once I began working on it I completely changed my mind. I realized that this idea in my head of creating a twisted eerie video was simply only an idea, and there was no passion at all in the project what so ever. I was concentrated more on how the video would look, rather than the feeling that I was trying to express through the video.

I decided to make my video about taking little things for granted. It's easy for people to get caught up in a fast paced exciting lifestyle and completely forget about the most important things.

I tried to depict this concept through a series of different video clips. The first half of my video shows all the club and concerts scenes in color, and simple times in black and white. I wanted this to exemplify a skewed mindset of life only being in color when things are fast paced and crazy. The simple times clips in black and white show how little things may not stand out or seem important when a person is only concentrated on living a crazy life. Towards the middle of the video I used YooouuuTuuube to create a video clip of a club scene that splits into a bunch of different screens and goes into a crazy effect that ends in a different outside scene with flowers. I wanted this to symbolize someone's mind being scrambled then realizing that the way they used to look at things was completely wrong. After this point all the clips that were previously in black and white are now shown again, but in color, and the color clips switch to being in black and white.

I am happy with the way my video came out and hope that it gets the point across that I was trying to make. I also feel that this project has taught me a ton about the importance of passion in art.