Text - Inspirational videos

Cuckle vision remake - the cheap editing of the original episode is pretty tacky and this is funny. For me to apply this kind of editing to something more popular and "beautiful" I think this would be very kitsch. 

 

Deee-lite - Groove is in the Heart

This is the perfect example of a kitsch video, all the bright clashing colours and people looking like they are pretending to have the upmost fun. I want to achieve something like this. 

 To achieve the kind of effects in the Deee-lite video I will need to do a lot of green screening, something I have never attempted before but look forward to trying. I have learnt how to edit the green screen in premiere pro and have an idea of what I want to shoot.

Text - Yoshi Sodeoka

Whilst looking for more inspiration I also came across the artist Yoshi Sodeoka who works in a very similiar way to how my work was originally going and how I like to work. The bright colours and abstract images in his videos are what I want to get back to producing. He also creates his work on music which is something I need to start thinking about with my videos. I need to get more creative with my videos and less clear cut.
vimeo site

Text - GIFRIENDS

I have been making videos and editing them to create layers of images but I feel like I am becoming a little bit lost as to where my work is heading. I realised that I hadn't done any artist research recently and this may be why I'm losing inspiration.
As always I began on tumblr scrolling through the artist pages that I follow which eventually brought me round to discover GIFRIENDS.
It was bizarre as they seemed to be looking at the same thing as me in my previous project - images of people partying or just doing their own thing, and made these into tacky kitsch GIF's.

By looking at these I realise that I have lost excitement for my work and this is showing. My images are becoming dull and bland and I need to start working on putting brighter colours and patterns into the images, I also need to capture more moments.

Text - Kitsch and How I Work

We were given this brief to work from text a week ago - normally I am immediately inspired by briefs and have lots of ideas to choose from, but for this project I've been completely stuck. Going round and round in circles thinking about which books, which song lyrics, which poems would I like to illustrate? I reverted back to looking for inspiration in the style of an artist instead of striving to create my own work.
However, after a tutorial I was told that instead of trying to start a whole new project from scratch to look back at my previous project which I felt very comfortable with and try and pin down the main points from it. From doing this we came up with the term "kitsch".
Just googling the word and seeing quotes I was immediately inspired, particularly by the quotes:

• In short, camp mocks bad taste; kitsch exploits it.
• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
• No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

I can now begin my project with these quotes and then work freely from them, letting my work spiral off wherever it wants to which is how I work best.
Whilst being frustrating I feel I have learnt a lot from this experience - I have realised once and for all that illustration is not for me; the idea of having to produce an obvious piece of work that clearly shows its meaning is not what I like to do - I like to explore and experiment with my ideas. Also I now know how I work best and this is by using briefs as a springboard rather than a prison for my ideas.