Monday, 18 January 2016

The 2 Artists chosen for Self Portrait Production Research

Self portrait artists inspiration

In terms of finding self portrait artists for inspiration for my self portrait video project, I found existing self portrait videos made by other people/students which gave me a lot of inspiration.

Video 1

Name: “Video Art : Self Portrait”

Length: 2:00





This video is a simplified version of a self portrait, where it depicts a man's several facial expressions, emotions and movements overlapping eachother with an instrumental backdrop.


What I got out of this video for inspiration was the method of how the artist expressed himself. I liked how the artist created his profile just by the overlapping method of how he put himself in this video which gave me the inspiration of planning the ending of my video in a similar fashion.

Video 2

Name: “Video Self Portrait”

Length: 1:10


 

For this video, you see a self portrait of a girl's activities and hobbies. The video shows an animated drawing of a Girl with 5 different frames surrounding the drawing. These 5 frames/panels shows a part of the girl's interests, personality and hobbies that defines her. The first panel shows that the Girl loves reading, while the second panel shows that the girl loves flowers or smelling flowers or both. The third panel shows that the girl likes to listen to music, while the fourth panel she enjoys sweet food like, cupcakes. The fifth and final panel Shows that the girl enjoys art as she is seen sketching/drawing. The video then goes back to the animated drawing representing the girl as all 5 panels join together as the animated drawing transforms into the girl in real life.


This Video is the main source of inspiration for my project. What I liked about the video is how the girl expressed herself by showing different sides of her hobbies and interests and how they all joined together to make one entity which is the girl. I have a similar idea to how I would like to express my portait via hobbies but in a slightly different method. I chose this video as a main source of inspiration that got me to the planning table.


 I have looked into other videos as well but I only chose to review these 2 videos specifically since thay both contained inspirational ideas for the project. The other videos contained great ideas however I couldn't gfind any form of inspiration in regards to the style that I particularly had in my mind.


Video 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfSVvZvn6sA

Video 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJbtck5ZBo

Video 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_A7mOexOo

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