My Final Piece
Link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgNy745qGY
My final piece is based on reverse video/back-masking. I thought that this linked in very well with the subject of story telling, in the way that there can be a story revealed by flipping it round and being reversed. This video consists of clips I have recorded that are played backwards and then reversed to make a song, I thought about using something that I enjoy doing and have it as a hobby to use in my final piece. I was then inspired by a video on YouTube by a guy of reverse guitar where he plays the song backwards and then reverses it and then the outcome is a famous song. I took this idea of recording a song and playing it backwards then reversing it for it to be heard as if it was played normally, I wasn't quite sure what song to use but came up with the idea of using 'Final Countdown' by the band 'Europe' as it is a well known song/anthem. I then looked at the notation/tab for the melody on guitar and turned it around to play it backwards, I had to then learn the song backwards and record myself playing it. I also added a second guitar to add more fullness and make it more song like. Making this video was quite a complicated procedure due to the fact that I had to get the tempo right for the guitars so when played together they didn't sound completely out and fitted together, to do this I used a metronome, which played through my headphones in the background. To actually begin recording this I set up a tripod in my room and I had the guitar connected up to an amplifier, then after recording all the clips I put it all into sony vegas where I edited all up together. Although the video isn't the most smooth, or the song doesn't sound exactly as the original, or hasn't got the greatest visual or audio quality, due to the lack of good technology, I think it works because it shows the whole meaning of stories and what I was looking into, in the sense that there can be a story in something which when played normally doesn't sound like much, but when reversed has a completely other angle and more meaning to it.
This image shows the tabs which is what I had to learn to play. For this video then to work I would need to learn this the opposite way so when edited and reversed it plays forwards.
Here is a grid of stills from the olympics opening ceremony countdown. This links up with my project of things being in reverse because a countdown is numbers which go down backwards down to 0. Also the song I played in the video is called 'The Final Countdown' therefore countdowns links with that too.
This my sequence of numbers like a countdown, where I took photos of numbers from different items around my house.
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This is a quick animation of a countdown which goes from 10 to 1. I was trying to imitate the Olympics opening ceremony, choosing different objects where they have numbers on them I could use.
My Final Video Explanation
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