Digital Error/Glitches
I recently went on a shoot without planning anything before hand and just wanted to see where it would take me. I ended up disliking the footage and was unsure what my intentions were going to be when it came to editing it into a film. When I was flicking through the videos I came across a glitch in one of them, which was due to the chip in my SD card falling out. These corrupted files reminded me of previous films I have made where I would create the glitches on purpose to represent a flashback as my films were based on nostalgia. This has led me to the idea of experimenting with ‘glitches’ and digital error, and what they look like frame by frame – the composition of the images, lines, colours, etc within them. I’m hoping to base my film for this module on nostalgia/glitches again, but focus on the editing side of it. I will be experimenting with the editing software to see how I can distort my footage and create a ‘distant memory’ sort of feel.
1 Screenshots of the glitch in my video. (I wanted to see what it looked like frame by frame
Maria Niro’s ‘Glitch Telemetry’
Link to short film:
http://mnphotovideo.weebly.com/glitch-telemetry.html
Niro uses a negative effect in her film which instantly distorts the images and makes the setting unclear. Her use of space on the screen is interesting. The first clip moves into different positions on the screen with a flickering strobe effect, which then duplicates into three different screens, allowing you to watch three shots at once. A lot of the shots are abstract – you’re able to distinguish what the object or figure is, but it might be a close up or section of it. The negative effect helps to distort the objects as the blocks of monochrome colours create a sort of silhouette effect, as it merges everything together. The background noise plays a huge part on the atmosphere of the film, as the sounds are eerie and distorted. When we first listen to it, it feels like we aren’t familiar with the music, but if you break down the different sounds, we notice that they are similar to things that we hear in everyday life, like tapping, clicking, creaking, etc. Whether it’s laughter, dialect, specific words that are picked up, music playing, etc. each memory tends to have a sound that comes with it and sometimes there are noises that are more significant to the memory than others. This has inspired me to consider the different sounds that come with a memory and try to create an audio piece for my film that will help set the scene.