Melissa Rice Original Clip and Revised

In the first video, that was original clip with the stick figures. I had decided when I was going to revise it that I didn't want to use the white board idea anymore. I headed to staples and found the toy clock that reminded me of my childhood when learning time. I moved the big hand clockwise for a little while and then I switched hands and went counterclockwise. I like my reivsed video a little more, even though it is much more simplier. In a sense it creates the reminensent feelings with childhood when you would just fool around with the big clock. 

Torie's performance video

This is the rough draft video

This is the edited version 

Artist statement:  For my performance video, I wanted to create a simple scene with a non-distracting background.  I decided to place a chair in the center of the symmetrical space between the closets in my dorm room.  Once I set the scene and angled the camera the way that I wanted to I started to work out what my performance was going to be.  I wanted to create an entertaining and humorous video.  At first, I put my running shoes on and took them off again.  This created the allusion that I was getting ready to go for a run, but then not going.  For my final video I decided to push this idea even further, which made it more humorous.  I decided to put my shoes on, tie them, stretch, and then proceed to eat a bag of chips.  I did the exact opposite of what the viewer originally thought I was going to do.    

PROJECT STATEMENT

               For this project, I tried to create an abstract video art using water and food dyes.  With the characteristics of abstract art, this video used colors and forms that do not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world.  I also believe that colors can provoke emotion.  The water is the symbol for a person and the colors are the symbols for some of the moods or emotions that that person can have.  I believe red can be seen as angry, unhappy.  Blue can be viewed as warm, happy and comfortable.  A person can either be happy or angry, that is why red and blue are the 2 main colors in the project.

Jaon's Remake of Performance Video

Jason's Performance videos

Melissa Rice statement about performance

In these videos I filmed myself doing a various things. In my video that I showed to the class I had filmed a white board and two stick figures conversing about mundane things and then a rain cloud appears and washes away the boy figure, yet the girl was able to think to use an umbrella and she is saved. My revision for that video, I decided to do something totally different and I am going to use a video where I was at staples and I used a learning clock and it shows my hands turning the time different ways then it ends looking at the clock.

Isabella Rowe, Performance, Artist Statement

My videos are small windows into my private life. They are examples of what I may do when I know people aren’t watching me. I wanted to capture these usually censored moments in video. Some of what I do is strange and some of what I do is carefree and comical. I find that the things that I do when people are not around are the most spontaneous, and I wonder sometimes why it is that I do those things at all. On the other hand, the videos I made are simply experimental, artistic representations of what I think and feel, while reflective of my daily life. Examples of these things are making my feet and hands move in silly ways, playing with the objects on my desk, arranging and rearranging them, and staring out the window and then finding my reflection.  When I was filming I was aware that these moments would be somewhat staged, but I found that it still felt pretty natural doing them.