Saturday, February 16, 2019

PORTRAIT SERIES: Final Concept

For my final concept I have decided to explore voyeurism on fantasised women in anime and sci-fi/cyber/futuristic/fantasy media which could be in the form of video games, manga, porn, films, comics or TV shows. I want to portray how this ongoing sexualisation of women in these forms of media makes real life women feel. These forms of media are targeted at predominantly males aged 15-25 (also males younger and older than this too). Since they are targeted at mainly men, many women (referring heavily to myself) view these and question themselves on whether they are good enough or living up to this standard. The portrayal isn't a correct one because real life women do not look the same. They are glamorised and dolled up to look like something to eat or take a bite out of, with perfect shiny flawless skin, legs, breasts, body shape and hair. 





Monday, February 11, 2019

EXP VID: Personal and Political Task Video

Here is mine and Elisa's personal and political task video - exploring the issues of social media, sexualisation of women, sexualisation/glamorisation of violence and torture of the female body and mental health issues.

Referring to the sexualisation of violence and torture of the female body, female bodily fluid and blood, on show, gets related to the period and birthing only the female body can perform. This then constitutes motherhood as something society is taught to be disgusted with, feeding into this patriarchal world. 
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Friday, February 8, 2019

EXP SOUND: Image Chosen

I have chosen this image to use for my experimental sound piece:

'Cold Dark Matter'
I chose this because I could immediately picture the kinds of sounds that would resonate well with it. I immediately thought, metallic industrial sounds. I also imaged echoing, hollow, dark sounds that are drawn out. Obviously also, I thought of there being an explosion sound since the installation art in the photo mimics an explosion of items (mainly metallic industrial and wooden items). 





Words describing this photo:

cold
hollow
dark
chaos
trapped
vacuum
clinical
white
bare
echo
shadows
industrial
metallic
void
nothingness
matter
sharp
disorder

Recording + Editing days:
25th February 
26th February
27th February
28th February

POST-RECORDING:
I have recorded most of my sounds in my house, focusing on sounds which have a metallic, industrial like quality to them such as, pots/pans hitting each other, oven door being slammed shut, microwave door being slammed shut, the sound of the hob turning on, the sound of extractor fan, a dryer on strong power, vacuum cleaner on different settings, scraping of chairs and tables on the floor etc. I imported them all into a media folder within a folder called EVIE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, and listened to all of them back, so that I could rename them into things I could easily find editing and creating in Adobe Audition.