Live Video Performance Workshop

Live Video Performance Workshop

Wednesday 16th March 2016

Introduction

This is one of the workshops which are currently on offer as part of Unit X. These workshops offer a range of different skills and knowledge which weren’t easily as accessible to other students from different mediums. Therefore it is important to attend these sessions are try something different that you are new to and learn something from it.

This workshop is called ‘Live Video Performance’ which is what it sounds like; this is where still and moving imagery are edited together which would then be projected and presented live.

Session

Within this session we used software called ‘Resolume’ which was a free demo for us to use and experiment with. At first I wasn’t completely clear what VJ meant and what the session was really about until we were shown examples of the tutor’s own work.  I found that these videos would be performed live and found it confusing that there was not timeline for these images or videos, as I am used to programmed such as: Adobe Premiere, After Effects and Flash etc. However because these videos are performed live, we had to apply the effects to our chosen images/ videos and then click them in order we chose in front of the rest of the class.

Because this workshop is a part of Unit X, I chose to relate my performance to the Ballet ‘Giselle’ in relation to the ENB brief. Within the session we were expected to produce a one minute performance using images and video to perform for everyone else. We can also have music if we chose to. I collected a range of ballet images and paint droplets which were layered on each other with the addition of fluid effects. I added effects to make the dancers move slightly in the direction the image suggested and a fluid effect to the paint droplets. I chose these images because time was limited and thought it would be interesting to portray these dancers with different ‘splashes’ of colour.

Image of Resolume interface

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Conclusion

I found this session challenging with understanding the concept and the software, but once I had spent some time working I gained a clearer understanding what was happening. Overall, this session was different and may not be used at all in the future, however I still find it useful to attend because it is a different experience which is available to animation students which wouldn’t normally be.