- What goals did you have in creating this piece? What kind of message, feeling, or awareness, were you trying to draw from the viewer?
My goal with creating this piece was to juxtapose the beauty of nature, with the horrible destruction that humans are doing to the planet. I wanted to bring awareness to the topic in a way that is abstract, visceral, youthful, and eclectic. I want to bring feelings of freedom and awe in the first half, and disgust and terror in the second. I ended on a positive note, that implies change and restoration.
- How did the individual elements (video, composite, animation, etc) , as well as how you organized them, help to reach these goals?
The edit in my video is very important to evoking these feelings in the audience. I wanted to overwhelm my audience with visuals. I wanted it to be a little too much for the viewer to even handle at times and I think with my inclusion of animations, overlapping, quick cuts, timely cuts, and composition, it helped get my message across. The composition in this piece was important to me because it was so visually heavy, I wanted to compose it in a way that made sense to the eye.
- What kinds of feelings do you hope to evoke from the viewer as they watch the piece, and how does it alter their perceptions of time?
I want them to feel awe and freedom, terror and disgust, then hope and change. It shows different periods of time on the planet all collaged together. I wanted people to conceive their own idea of the history of the dwindling of the planet. I want my audience to understand that there was a past, present, and future, with our environment, and most importantly the future and how it is up to us, who are on the planet to change it.
