Below are my notes from the tutorial:
- Transport - environment
- Times of day - morning/day/evening
- Moods - Light and dark changing in relation to changing moods
- An internet recording?
- Time and space
- Time
- CCTV footage of a train yard
- Graffiti artists surveillance of an train yard for a good time to spray paint.
- It's almost to simple/obvious what the meaning could be, makes me ask the question "Am I missing something?"
- The variation in day and the change of the physical TV's suggests a question/comparison
- "Reminds me of the impressionist" - painted the same landscape but at different times of the day.
- "I'm drawn to the moving objects" - waiting for the things to move - the rest seems dead
- They seem like photographs until the rare movements appear
- Representing boredom - not much is happening.
- Continuous - still happening now when the footage has ended
- Repetition
- CCTV - time and space
- Watching the city
- Sense of a physical distance - outside the city
- Three screens - synthetic - control room.
- Painterly
- Compositional with the structure of the lines - George Shaw
- Human activity in a city centre at a distance
- Third TV - the physical shape of it is too different to the others - is there a reason?
- Mundane activity.
- CCTV for a graffiti artist
- Impression we have of certain spaces
- "Something particular about this piece"
- Island of space between us and the city.
- No Man's Land view - a place where you'd go to forage event though you;re not aloud to - boring yet sinister
- Third screens makes it more intriguing - home surveillance - gathering of old TVs instead of manufactured new screens makes it more personal - bedroom surveillance.
- The quality and focus suggest low tech - home spun - personal bedroom project
- Urban life - isolated
- Feels sad, alone. It belongs to them - desert Island.
- No sound with the train makes it soft
- TV's look like a journey - more and more abstract because of the light. Due to the days getting darker all you can see is the lights in the image, this combined with the curved glass on the third and different TV screen is what distorts the image to look abstract.
- Leads from the computer could be used more in the installation - suggest home/D.I.Y. approach - add more low tech to amplify the amateur surveillance.
- Use a different table to connect to home CCTV? - could include other items on the table, like fag packet or general items that could be found alongside.
- Distance and no sound.
- The film of the daylight is the most painterly
- The lines from the boxes look almost sea-like - could look at different locations/more visual locations, places with the same aesthetic and set up whilst still providing the distance
At this point my tutor asked the question to the group what they would think of the work if instead of it being on three TV screens, it was projected on a large scale onto the wall, would this change the work for them? these were there responses:
- Less personal - less intimate - remove the idea of CCTV
- Completely different idea
- Televisions = old - look like they been pulled from a junk yard, possible even from one of the containers in the video
- Universal landscape - horizon - seascape/cityscape etc
- Formal reading of landscapes being the same
- Would be quieter on large scale
- Work highly charged by CCTV narrative
- Idea for projection: keep the different films but one could appear and then disappear as another appears in a different part of the screen.
- Add noise? Nice and still at the moment so add noise of the trains at a low volume to still keep the distance
- Do I want to keep it isolated? - sound would connect to the image - no sound suggests removal - alienation
- Are three screens over a period of time misleading? - is it meant to be more about the image?
Considering how much thought the group put into the third non-matching TV makes me conscious of all the details when I'm presenting my work this way. The TVs where just meant to be a way of showing the films at once, it could have been done on 3 matching screens, 3 different types of TV or all projected as that wasn't my intention. However I now realise that by showing it this way the TVs become part of it and therefore make it more of an installation than just a film.
A point that came up a lot was the CCTV idea. Although this wasn't my original intention it kind of fits in with my theme. I am investigating human existence and by doing so have started recording different parts of my life, like a form of surveillance. I could add to this by showing different scenes from similar scenarios, watching and recording my daily events, therefore depicting a type of existence. The scenes, like suggested, could be done in the same aesthetic to match the others and continue the 'painterly effect'. I also like the idea of 'home/amateur surveillance' because of the footage being shot from my home environment. If I were to continue this idea I'd like to add more wires and add to the set up like suggested to make it look more like it was directly taken out from someone's bedroom.
The group mentioned time a lot and seemed to get that it was about observing a space over a long period of time, that this space could belong to someone. I'm pleased with this result as this is my own personal view, an environment that in some ways belongs to me and is personal to me. Recording the time that I am present in front of it, living my life around it. Like some one pointed out, everything seems still apart from the trains, as though life goes on, you kind of feel like there is an energy around it as though something else is going on elsewhere. The idea of waiting also seemed appropriate for what this view means to me, the idea of having this passing image that reminds me of the possibility of popping home and visiting my family.
One other point that I liked was how the silence made the audience feel there was a distance between them and the scene, it didn't let you into it and made you feel like you were outside watching in or perhaps inside somewhere. I wasn't sure if I should include the audio from the recording of the film or not but I like this effect it had. Seeing as when our window is closed you can't actually here the trains going past, so not being able to hear them disconnects you from actually being there, making them easily ignorable like it is for me on a daily basis. For me this is almost like walking past someone on the street, you don't take any notice of them, you know they're there but you might not recognise them or see any significance in their presence. But they're there adding to your day and living their own life, existing in their own time. What's more is they will do whether you're there or not, just like the trains will keep moving, even if you're not watching.
A point that came up a lot was the CCTV idea. Although this wasn't my original intention it kind of fits in with my theme. I am investigating human existence and by doing so have started recording different parts of my life, like a form of surveillance. I could add to this by showing different scenes from similar scenarios, watching and recording my daily events, therefore depicting a type of existence. The scenes, like suggested, could be done in the same aesthetic to match the others and continue the 'painterly effect'. I also like the idea of 'home/amateur surveillance' because of the footage being shot from my home environment. If I were to continue this idea I'd like to add more wires and add to the set up like suggested to make it look more like it was directly taken out from someone's bedroom.
The group mentioned time a lot and seemed to get that it was about observing a space over a long period of time, that this space could belong to someone. I'm pleased with this result as this is my own personal view, an environment that in some ways belongs to me and is personal to me. Recording the time that I am present in front of it, living my life around it. Like some one pointed out, everything seems still apart from the trains, as though life goes on, you kind of feel like there is an energy around it as though something else is going on elsewhere. The idea of waiting also seemed appropriate for what this view means to me, the idea of having this passing image that reminds me of the possibility of popping home and visiting my family.
One other point that I liked was how the silence made the audience feel there was a distance between them and the scene, it didn't let you into it and made you feel like you were outside watching in or perhaps inside somewhere. I wasn't sure if I should include the audio from the recording of the film or not but I like this effect it had. Seeing as when our window is closed you can't actually here the trains going past, so not being able to hear them disconnects you from actually being there, making them easily ignorable like it is for me on a daily basis. For me this is almost like walking past someone on the street, you don't take any notice of them, you know they're there but you might not recognise them or see any significance in their presence. But they're there adding to your day and living their own life, existing in their own time. What's more is they will do whether you're there or not, just like the trains will keep moving, even if you're not watching.
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