For the video I made, for the photo essay on 'Everyday Aesthetics' described by Murray in Digital Images, 'Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics', helped me come to grips with the ideal of using everyday items and having the ability to document them via the use of a camera or photographic device, and being able to produce and show them in a way of self expression and visualisation of something so mundane as water into something of a deeper and more spiritual level.
I chose water as my singular ideal of an everyday aesthetic because it plays an integral role in life on earth, i chose many of the natural scenes of water which i had taken on trips to Bali and New Zealand over past holidays because i found the different shades of water due to chemicals in the water quite unique. Also the different ways in which people use water to survive, entertainment and spiritual purposes it has. The photos of the different shapes of waves in the sink i used these photos and others to represent the mystical properties that many cultures view water as having. The supposed healing qualities and the natural 'magic' that many people believe water has, i have tried to represent in this film.
Water plays an integral part of human life and although it can be manipulated in many forms and used for unnatural purposes like industrial uses, i have tried to give the film a very natural but tribal feel to it with the use of mostly natural photos. But with my editing i did try to add a magical appeal with the coloured photos. Also the use of bright lighting in some photos was used, as i was trying to attempt to give a spiritual appeal to the video.
The music i chose was a natural water sound off Imovie and a bell sound also on Imovie. I also edited the photos and the film on Iphoto and Imovie respectively on an Apple PC.
References:
Murray, S 2008
'Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday
Aesthetics', Journal of Visual Culture, vol 7, no. 2.
Music: - Imovie sound Water Lake
- Imovie sound Bell Buoy
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