FINAL PROJECT ‘The Ballad O’Lady Prince’
December 15, 2009
I wanted to make a project that was experimental, but with it’s intent on stimulating the viewer and affecting them either physically or emotionally. I was originally going to do extremely slow motion, but that deemed to be problematic in regards to finding something interesting enough to play at 24 frames per minute. I really just wanted to make a surrealist work without doing too much in the realm of special affects or experimental film cliches. It’s more like a surrealist fairy tale in a sense, not that I think it really deserves to be considered a tale, because the foundation of this piece lies in the visual affect of the looped stutter more so than the story. The story arc adds to the surreality of piece of it does anything. All the edits were done with about 3 frames of video, more or less on certain edits, looped. This sort of makes sense in lieu of my original project idea, where i was going to split one second of video into 29 frames and then slow them down individually.Anyway I think this piece worked, and it definitely opened me up to a new set of ideas i would like to work with in the future.
