Final Project Plan

For my final project, I plan to create a video art piece to accompany my webspinna performance.  After recording my webspinna performance for our class album Quarantunes, I decided to name my track “Ctrl+Alt+Del 2020.”  I intend to name my video art piece ““Ctrl+Alt+Del 2020” as well to continue linking the two works together as a greater body of art.  I came up with this title after our class discussion of the webspinna performances we had heard and what characteristics were consistent across the board.  Many of the tracks, including my own, were dark and mysterious which has been consistent with our lives during this uncertain period of self isolation. Since 2020 has been a year that began with a lot of hardship for me and has continued to prove more and more challenging, I wanted the track to reflect my desire to delete the year all together and move on from what seems like an unending nightmare with a slight twist of computer nerd humor. Despite my more humorous title to the track, I believe my work creates a both ominous and sterile vibe.  I’d like to play on this visually with the use of found footage that is edited together in a chaotic and cyclical nature that I find present within my own life during quarantine. I decided to use found footage for the video rather than footage I would film myself to play off of the role that remix plays within the project. The sound component of the work is already heavily rooted in remix with the use of sounds and recordings I pulled from the internet therefore using found footage would continue the theme of repurposing source material. Additionally, I think the use of repurposed source material would also send a message about the use and necessity of the internet during this time.  As digital artists, the internet is a matrix of infinite possibilities unhindered by the constraints of quarantine therefore reaffirming digital arts validity and necessity. This is why I believe that my target audience is anyone and everyone who can relate to these themes, which is currently most of the world (although I’ll probably just end up sending it to my friends). For this project, I plan on primarily using Adobe Premiere and applying a lot of the tools exhibited by Corrina in her Adobe Premiere basics lesson for distortion and layering. Since the project is already so heavily digital, it will be easy to have my work exhibited for our online exhibition after exporting the final product.  I am really looking forward to how the exhibition will come together as a whole.