Movie Art Direction

BEFORE AFTER

Here you can see some of the image processing that I am doing with the visuals for the stereo-movie. I am using color mixing to match the original art direction. This is a shot of T-Bone and some of his gang members from Mowdecville. Read about them at http://www.weekendassignment.com

Here is a cool metallica video i made in after effects for a demo.

Higher Center Piece

Art Principals and elements combine with technology to create to be what I think of as some of the most important forms of art. After mastery of design principals of color, line, shape etc.... the next step is stratagies in becoming compelling such as visual hiearchy and using new mediums. Samuel Bayer the director of the Metallica music video "Until it Sleeps" shows here a mastery of art principals, art direction, and technology.
Now by using the presence and powerful nature of Metallica as a center piece. So what is being said is the table is set the food is there and



all eyes are are on the center piece being wispered to by the rest of the surroundings.

My first impression from the music video was "Wow what a setting for such a compelling stentorian of a song" Metallica as human beings compel me to be what I am capable of.





The overbearing song is complemented with overbearing visuals. Each still image from the video is a work of art.

A lot of metaphors and bizzare visuals cause for a eye and ear feast from this music video.

Wisdom or Survival you choose....

When I started college back in 2003 at purdue I would have to drive 1.5hours to school and back every day. I did a lot of pondering in that old jeep driving so much. Here are some quotes from my ponderance.

~ First identify a peaceful solution to conflict then predict a reaction to the solution then make a solution to that reaction next predict a reaction to this solution….the secret to being one step ahead.

~ If a loved one favors talking then listen to them with consideration, and if a loved one favors silence listen to them with consideration....

~ When you speak with wisdom slow down and give it the clarity and thoroughness that it deserves.

~ If neither side of an argument is evil they are all correct through divine eyes…

~ The function of life is sex and the meaning of life is love…..

~ You need proof that the meaning of life is love without hearing “we are here for God to enjoy us and to enjoy him”?! Well, do you know of any other thing that all humans have always sought in some form, and few has ever given up. Such as Love

Heathens raise Successful offspring.
Successful offspring raise Conformist Offspring
Conformist Offspring raise Heathens.

~ If we are a mind, body, and soul, here on earth love can only be applied to mind and body. The love of God spans the Soul, a different form of deeply rooted love.

~ Perception is more valuable if not used to predict what should happen, but rather what is happening.

~ If you receive a good feeling from someone analyze why this made you feel good, and duplicatethis act.

~ To avoid a temptation in your weakest conditionis to earn one up on it.

~ Love whom that love you because that is where contentment lives.

~ One secret to advancing is to not show off because a flower can bloom without making a peep only want to be great and ignore the bellows of the foolish.

~ You can assume a lot about a man by what he has in his pockets, but you cannot assume anything about a women unless you know what is in her mind.

~ Many go about their day doing the same thing over time it looks like waiting………..? What are they waiting for? Seize every day as your last NOW! (die creatively!!)

Chauncey Frend

The Fall

Thinking about bliss has reminded me now of how much I love the fall air and smells and taking a nap next to an open window. Here is a poem I wrote about this such act.

Nap Time In Autumn Air

There is something about a cool autumn day…
The crisp air steadies my mind.
The feeling of finishing some hard work feels more satisfying when finished.Anticipation for anything makes me excited.

Love seems more practical…….Friends calm my wonders.
Fall decorations always make me brake a smile of joy.
Just in autumn do I feel like this.
The true festive feeling of the “autumn harvest” is invested in me.
My mind yields crops as sundry as the tree’s colors.

Final Project - Bliss

My bliss in class project helped me clear a busy hive of thoughts and stressor interaction that is my brain. Once I had clear thought I took my damaged concived idea of stereo video collages to the next step. I love the idea for ideas where you think outside the box to get somthing going and then once you establish somthing think outside the box on that one more time! This is sideways thinking. Again, Take a conventional idea like fishing for example. Now think sideways or outside the box with what if questions form a new technique like using electricity to shock fish to the surface for example. Now think outside the box on that one more time and think if the fish are being shocked in the water why couldn't you use an electromagnet under water to attact the physical bodies of the fish according to the current that shocks them so you could collect them all at once for example.

Anyway I have started shooting my final project idea and I am going to think outside the box one more time once I have the footage captured.

What If Part II

What if... no one ever asked a question again?

If no one ever asked a question again learning in general would cease, understanding would falter, and evil would run rampant. People would return to nervous driven animals because after one generation passed without any learning the next generation would fallow only instinct or forward survival motion. The strongest would survive, but they would all be animals with no souls.

People should always ask questions that is the reason we learn its a spark. If no one ever asked any questions maybe even survival isn't an option because do you not sub consciously feel your stomach hurt in hunger and you ask why, Oh I’m hungry?? Questions must be philosophically the reason survival is possible.

Final Project Prep

My Final project is a bit hard to descripe, but my goals are the best way to convey what I am doing. I want to closely appeal to you visual, arual, and olfactory senses all at once. I am shooting a stereovideo with audio I create and odors. I have collected all the equipment I need to complete my assignment, but I am still pondering before I head out in the field to complete this task. We will all be able to experiance my project at once thanks to the AVL.

let the faucet flow

As I listened to my two selected songs the Unforgiven and The Unforgiven II I wrote out sequences that played out in my head. Certainly as the songs have their own art direction my thoughts did also. This graphic above just is a representation of my project you can view my full project at http://www.chaunceyworks.com/N485/Music%20-%20what%20do%20I%20see.swf I found myself seeing really awesome sequences of images that I wanted to create in the real world on video. The phrases in the flash .swf are animated to how they felt tome as well as the image described. This is a really good way to brainstorm I found. I didn't have to strain to think of my great sequences I could let the faucet flow.

Isolated Celebrations

Eggs are a POTENTIAL they are obsolete until fertilized and then the POTENTIAL is engaged for a MIRACLE, the birth of a new life. I look at my IDEAS-IN-PROGRESS as POTENTIALS. My egg came to me on 9MAY07 and it just so happened to meet me during a time in my life where I have chosen what I think to be the best of my IDEAS-IN-PROGRESS currently, and I am at a halfway point in these POTENTIALS. Just like eggs ideas are obsolete in the real world unless acted on then they become a potential and if presented correctly only IF the POTENTIAL is great enough REAL WORLD SUCCESS is accomplished in my eyes. See I am working on a capstone video that is pushing technology by using stereoscopic video. Next I am developing a new device technology parallel to my video called "PIPE" this machine is adding 3 timelines to the normal convention of video and audio timelines. The other timelines are olfactory, temperature, and humidity. I extremely enjoy working directly on my video and my PIPE, but its nestled into my life in between things like working two positions within and not within my field of study, making time for my family & girlfriend, and maintaining material possessions. These things are all needed in my life, but my CEREBRAL COMPOSITE OUTBURSTS aka POTENTIALS are so much fun and need to be practiced. Every little island on time I get to work on my POTENTIALS seems as an isolated celebration.

That is a picture of my egg within the graphic composite. I have the egg in my fridge at my apartment and after this December 8th (My video and device premiere) I will take the egg out which represents real world success and I will blend it in a blender to celebrate an IDEA-IN-PROGRESS transform into REAL WORLD SUCCESS.

Ponderance....

Here we are I am in the cockpit.