video is a visual symbol and visual language. I think that in the summer show exhibition, the video part can establish a "bridge" to make the audience to understand my story better. In addition, I believe that “emotional creation” is also a very important factor. The viewers can resonate by watching my salt series under the guidance of the video atmosphere. Therefore, I decided to make a video by myself, the tear is the main means of expression, and the main purpose is creating a sad atmosphere.
Since I didn't have the video shooting experience before, I sought advice from some friends who are related to the profession. This is very helpful. Under their suggestion, I found some video references that can express my thoughts, learning and analyzing their shooting methods and the transfer of concepts.
This video made by artist Jiang Zhi, named "0.7% salt". The artist restores the symbolic tears to the physical existence of 0.7% salt water, trying to express the meaning behind the tears and challenge the viewers and the identity of its inertia. In this work, Chinese famous artist Zhong Xintong plays a role from smiling to crying. The work restores her to a performer, while crying is the performance content, Zhong Xintong is an actor, nothing more. The work requires the viewer to abandon the predetermined hypothesis
(This refers to the mention of this Chinese actress, who knows her will define her with the label "Sexual Photo(her sexual scandal history)", and also enhances the appreciation of the visual beauty of the emotional transition in the work. In Jiang Zhi’s self-report, he mentioned that there was no script in this section, just let the actor facing the camera. Facing the lens that brought her honor and pain, all the happy or painful memories will come into her mind in a crazy way.
Another thing that impressed me was the silent video taken by Andy Warhol. The series was named "Screen Tests," Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to The anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. -and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion. Most people's "Screen tests" are the same form: participants in the same place and stay in front of Warhol's lens a few minutes. You can feel the emotions of different people through this series under the lens. Of course, this is the same purpose that I originally wanted to make a video. In the process of facing the camera, a woman in the video showed a process of tears from the eyelids. When I first saw this video, I watched Andy Warhol's exhibition at the Mumu Art Museum in Beijing. My emotions fluctuated with the emotions of the objects in the video.
Therefore, I believe that video has a significant influence on the emotional atmosphere.
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