Bringing it all together

After looking at the animation and photos made by the boys, I was really inspired to add something in film format. As we want two projection, we decided to have the animation/photographs on one side and a video on the other.

I made a short video of an urban landscape panning across the skyline, however, when I saw the other projection, I felt they didn't really fit together. Even though we want to show one side of urban landscape (animation) as very abstract and the other projection as more calmer, I felt the were too different. So I done some research and came across this really cool video. This video came from a man called called Patrick Murphy who made installation pieces using the theme of pigeons.

Use link to see video:
Liverpool Biennial: Bird's-eye view of pigeon artwork by Patrick Murphy - Local News - News - Videos & Pics

Link for more information about Murphy and his pigeon installations:
http://www.artinliverpool.com/?p=32584

I feel that pigeons are iconic to an urban landscape and this video can be seen as quite abstract and quirky; with the use of bright colours and the fact the pigeons are not real. This gave me idea for my video and I feel it will compliment the other projection in the theme of abstract.

I went to local town and videoed some pigeons, I was quite lucky when filming as one pigeon flew in which I felt made the video stronger.  So as my idea I want to project this video on a pile of rubbish (maybe newspaper). I feel this could work as we associate pigeons being dirty and always arounds bins and rubbish. Moreover, the video will still be calmer than the animation but they will link with abstract styling; so we will have two different types of emotion showing in the projections.

Leanne Tasker