Hybrid Booklet - WARPSET Joran De Roover
Contextual Substraction
My personal challenge is to see beyond the image. To be able to break it down. On a personal level I’ve noticed that I usually see a lot of things around me that fascinate me. So If I have to sample out only a few of those, It’s a big task for me. That’s why I opted to start with personal gathered footage from over the years. This was done with a little handicam.
What mostely attracts me about certain frames is all the different stimuli they show. For example in the still on the next page: there are multiple textures to be experienced. If the sun wouldn’t hit the water on that angle there would not be any reflection, nor would the footage stimulate your eyes that much. A part of this is also the pixelated, slightly vague/blur camera quality.
I think this is what mostly draws me to these shots, the fact that there is a certain room for interpretation due to the lac of quality, which in the end is an added value for me. So perhaps the footage has more quality in the end then?
When working on my second vid eo, I started playing with all the dif ferent frames and noticed that due to the quality they caused an inbetween frame. Where there was an overlap between two frames, think this has to do with the frames per secon from the camera and the fact that adobe premiere is able to go more into depth then the amount of frames per second the camera catches.
In the end new creations are born.
Pas de deux
1. A dance for two, especially a dance in ballet consisting of an entrée and adagio, a variation for each dancer, and a coda.
2. A close relationship between two people or things, as during an activity. This scene is a translation of the comming and going in life. How people will evolve but sometimes still will have to look back. It dirived from a playfull moment with premiere pro. Where I looked for the spaces in between frames.
A Still fromed from a combination of 2 frames from different scenes that were combined results in a new space.
Rotonda Bouteille
In my search for the ultimate way of filming to recreate my point of fascination, ... , one of the options was; object stands still and the camera moves around it.
This created ... around the surrounding but more or less nothing of ... around the object itself I was circling around.
On a futher stage I would like to implement this distorted footage in a 3D-Lidar-render app to recreate the object in the middle, being a tripod with a bottle on.
Having focussed this time a bit more on how the footage could be propperly distoreted, I tried to cre ate new spaces from the ... combined with different half frames. As a means to get inspired by the spacial reproduc tion that could happen. A moment of research without any certainty whether it would give something in return. I think that this is something that i’m starting to really adore. The back and forth between different methods of media with as endgoal to be inspired and influenced by other perceptions on the same topic.
Eventually I wasn’t really convinced about the added value of the chosen camera perspective for the ... - research. So before starting on a new quest I descided to have a quick moment of playfullness with the exported frames. A bit of zooming in, taking snaps; looking for the obsession I’ve created during the past few weeks; ... With a scanner, a fascinating frame and my hands I started warping and recreating the fenomena. A moment of analoge research on a digital fenomena.
Scaniverse
A universe made by a scan.
When wanting to 3D - Lidar scan a space, your phone asks that you move slowly & steady. My intention was to recre ate an object by moving around it in a similar manner.
Intead of creating an object the app recreated a space from the lidar-scanned footage. Which consisted of a tripod on which a water bottle balanced where I rode around on a certain speed on my bike. Named Rotonda Bouteille.
Preface
When eventually wanting to get started on building of the fysical object I bumped into a technical problem. The app required me to walk around with my phone around the ob ject to be able to catch all the different surfaces and textures with the camera. With the footage being on my computer by now and me not keen anymore on biking 100 laps around the tripod on place du Congres, I just winged it.
On off I went, walking 100 ciclkes at my parant’s place with my pc in one hand and with my phone in the other to be able to recreate this setting. I came down to me trying to trick my phone in to thinking that the object was physicaly present.
Which turned out different then I expected.
In the end it turned out way more fascinating then I could have imagined. The software didn’t recognise thesenting. Some kind of slideshow. It percieved the pictures as a texture and depending from the way I walked with my computer in my hand it created a path. Or a space (depending on the shape of the object). In 2 dimention the objects themselves are uncomprehensible. That’s why this was the perfect reseason the pour them into a video. To create a 1min Site from the freshly created non excisting spaces. Though I was bound to a certain way I could use them. They could only be exported into a certain kind of video.
