theme: play and force 

In response to the theme of play and force, I create a model and try to make the force visualization. 

Context 

for this theme, I create a model and aim to “make the force visualization”. In this model, I try to keep the process of the forces.  
My idea was come from the “kinetic sculpture”. In the class, we watch some of kinetic work, I was interested with these artist, so I find more information about them. I got a concept from this series of works that is “relate to the motion of materials bodies”, I think of it as the  “visualization”. 
I looking for some kinetic art work, for example: Ralfonso’s kinetic wind sculpture “magic tree”(2012). these works moved by wind. his work was always interact with the power which come from the environment and has the principles of mechanics. 
Also I watched some final year project from other school. They create some works with Touch Designer and physical models, they use another way to realize the visualization of the force. like the visualization of the sound and pressure. 
Force was an unenviable thing, they using some way to make them reveal their feature or help viewer to perceiving the force.  
For my work, I want to focus on force’s process. I will keep and record it by the model.

Method 
1.making a box
2.Fixed some sticks in the box 
3.find a little object witch could sliding in the box 
4.Tied a the object at the end of the string
5.Fixed the other side of the string in the box 
6.shaking or flip the box 

Link of the outcome: https://youtu.be/XkyQGL7V5zA 

Reflection:
after I finishing the outcome and test,I think the concept of the visualization was working, but the model of this experience has defects. 
Because of the time limit, the model was very rough, and the conception of this model was not enough. When I shaking the box, I notice the object was affected by many force. people’s hand,string, gravity… in this model it has too much “force” could influence the object’s movement. So the final outcome cannot make the force’s visualization very clearly and accurate.
I should consider the effect from these force or exclude their influence. 

In response to this week’s theme, I want to playing with the the movement. Because it was one of the reference to calculate and feel the time. I take some videos and using Ae to show the trace of their movement. 

Context:
In the beginning,I am not sure what I want do in the end, so I decide to taking some videos at first, then getting the inspiration from them. I set in a fork rod and shooting some videos. I saw walking man, car... also I shooting the nature, like willow, lake... I found when no one passing the road these scene or no wind blows the plant, I will have a illusion as if time was stop. Then I think of one of my work in the last semester, it was shooting a stationary object and make viewer believe that was a photo. In the dictionary, time is“the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole”, and combined with my personal understanding, I want explore how to expression the each (still fragment)moment in a flowing time.So I decide to do something to keep the motion trails in the end. 
I also got the inspiration from some work which about the freezing time, lots of film and television works used to imagine time stopping. 
A motion graphic animation also gives me the ideas of using the outline to keep the motion. In this work, animator using the dynamic line to show the motionless pattern. 

Line animation (motion graphic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVrIk8X3jWI      

Method:
1.shooting some videos 
2.Choosing suitable video clip
3.Using Ae to do some simple adjustment 
4.Using brush tracing the motion trails   
5.editing the video

Outcome link：https://youtu.be/Y4dMvIhWvIg 

Reflection:
For my concept, I guess it could play more factors about time. Like speed up motion, stop time... using this contrast to enhance the concept I want to express. I want show time was continuous, but static(object) reference was also included in the flowing time.   
For the producing, I think when I shooting the videos, I should use holder or other object to reduce the shaking,some video materials not working because the scenes never stop shaking. Ae was not a familiar software for me, when I editing the final work, I think it still have many thing could improve. 

In response to the theme of play&self, I record my own associate and make a short video to show them. 

Context:
When I see the words “self play”, I will think of self feeling and self association . If I see an ordinary object , I will apply my own perception to this object and get some emotional experience of it. For example, when I want buy something and in my mind, everything will became a number, a price. When I was feeling down, I will put some sad associations on the object. 
Psychologist Carl Jung(1910) theorized that people connect ideas, feelings, experiences and information by way of associations. Idea, feelings, memories and knowledge all influence their associations. So I want make an associate game to find myself.  
In this work, I record my own feelings and thinking at different times, then let them visualize.I was using photo to keep the original object(or scenes) and rethinking them three times. In the end, I context them with the original photos, put this products of visualization together.  
I also got inspiration from a game, It was a game video. See the words and sing a song that contains that word. In this video’s comments, audience left many song’s titles. It also make me think of some songs and memories. This game was made a rules then lead the player to associating with song. 

Song Association Words |Challenge : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zdOIqbMh3s)  
Jung, Carl G. (1910). "The Association Method". American Journal of Psychology. 21 (2): 219–269. 

Method:
1.Take a photo 
2.Record the first feeling
3.Record how I feel and thinking a few days later
4.Repeat 
5.Try to summarize all of my feeling then let them be icons or graphic pattern 
6.Put every thing together. 

outcome video link: https://youtu.be/8dQh9RkfGrA  

Reflection: 
For this personal associate game’s rules, I realize it should consider the time and environment in the rule. What time I have these association? When I looking this photo, where I am? Then think about the relation between them and associations.      
Also,I meet some problem when I was using Pr to make the video. The I can’t using the Pr skillful. So I did not put all of my photos and painting in this work. I want to show my feeling and thinking’s process, so I choose make a short video in the end. It was rough work, because video was not my strength.
After I finishing this work, I think I still have many parts could improve. Like the colour, graphic style and editing ways...  

The song I use in my video:猫的舞步 Candy_Wind