Visual Analysis Exercise

Subject Video

Colours

1. Concrete/formal – What it is doing? (visuals, audio, editing, lighting, colour, etc)
   • It is going through different colours, displaying short video clips of subjects that are those colours. Each clip has its own distinct sound, but there is also an underlying music, that the clips transition along with. Similar shapes of the subjects also transition into each other. Colours transitioned into each other intentionally, usually with a scene that had both colours in it
2. Abstract/conceptual – What do you understand as the underlying ideas?(theme, subjects)  Are there any relationships to other concepts?
   • Theme: colours
   • Subjects: a lot of the subjects were food, but there was also commuting, school, nature, working
   • The video was all very playful, as the video was a celebration of colour in our everyday lives
3. How do the formal qualities work to communicate the concept?
   • As the music gets faster, the clips of individual subjects are showed quicker, and at the end the music sort of smashes together and then the clips are all of scenes with rainbows
4. What is the relationship to sound and image for audience understanding?
   • The music is upbeat and puts the audience in a happy mood
   • The clip duration match the tempo
   • Each individual clip also has its own unique but related sound, that contribute to the overall playfulness
5. Is there anything else you noticed?
   • All of the colours were very vibrant and the video clips high quality

Student Video

A Painter’s Dream

1. Concrete/formal – What it is doing? (visuals, audio, editing, lighting, colour, etc)
   • There are two canvases, transitioning between different scenes via stop motion, depicting a dream-like landscape or scenario. Dots were paired with laughing voices and zig zags with static noises. It started off light-hearted with cool colours, and changes to darker with mostly red. The music also created a more anxious/scary feeling as the video progressed
2. Abstract/conceptual – What do you understand as the underlying ideas?(theme, subjects)  Are there any relationships to other concepts?
   • We believe the concept was a dream that progressively turned into a nightmare. It was very abstract, as there were no scenes painted that represented anything from real life, and the sounds were not anything that directly related to each shape
3. How do the formal qualities work to communicate the concept?
   • The camera is mounted on a tripod which helps the viewer to focus on the stop motion and each frame
   • The paint also starts very thin and watered down and gets thicker as the video gets more intense
4. What is the relationship to sound and image for audience understanding?
   • Different shapes made different sounds and as the shapes got more jagged and erratic the sounds followed. It conveys the feeling of a nightmare very well
5. Is there anything else you noticed?
   • The two different canvases create a divider in the frame, allowing there to be two separate images or to break the boundary between with moving paint