UNEXPLAINED - Some photos from the seagull film shoot
DANCING FOR WORMS
Final video for UNEXPLAINED project. This was the first video I have ever shot and edited (and it shows). If I were to do this again, I would film on a proper camera, plan my shots (story board), make a better costume and plan the music. I think as a concept, I’m pretty happy with it, but in terms of quality it could be a lot better.
Seagull - Sam Della-Valle
UNEXPLAINED - Behind the scenes on seagull video, the birth and death of the seagull costume ft. Sam Della-Valle
UNEXPLAINED - finishing touches to the wings and feet before filming. I’m using an old get up top to thread through both pieces so that I can tie them onto the person who wears them. Going to try filming today
UNEXPLAINED - continuing to make the seagull head
UNEXPLAINED - I decided to make the frame of the head from scrunched up news paper, and then cover it in modroc. This way it gives me an easy surface to paint on, and gives the head more of a rigid structure
UNEXPLAINED - making a giant seagull head
For this project, I’m looking at the unexplained stamping that I’ve watched seagulls do with their feet. Ever since moving to Brighton iv’e seen them do it everywhere and never understood it. (after researching it, i found that it is called ‘dancing for worms’, where they trick the worms into thinking its raining so they think they have to come up for air, and then they get them. I didn’t know this before, so it still counts as ‘unexplained’)
SEMIOTICS - More masks
SEMIOTICS - Paper bag masks Iv’e made to photograph people in normal social situations
The idea behind this project is to ‘embrace the absurdity’, so I wanted to look at masking the norm of social situations. My idea, inspired by the masks by Saul Steinberg and Inge Morath, is to photograph people in normal social situations, only all wearing the mask. In conversation, I find that facial expressions are the most important thing in terms of reading social queues, or knowing what is going on if observed from afar. ‘Masking’ these norms (hopefully) allows the viewer to to feel slightly uncomfortable at the unknown situations they are seeing
Art of the accident - Plastic bags I found/had, cut to form the same Japanese road sign for ‘caution on slippery roads’.