PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PROJECT: Non Linear Time

PRESENTATION IDEA

Presenting non- linear time involves breaking from the single direction of time's arrow. Putting aside the logical progression from point A to point B in time, we break time by rearranging moments, going backwards, repetition, looping, changing durations and speeds and create multiple branch offs or progressions.

For My Final Project for Time class, I have decided to present “the action of applying make up over your face, while at the same time, along the process the person putting the make-up is always not sure and tries to undo every time, in every step of the way. I am going to be filming a friend who will be sitting inside an empty room with a mirror in front of her face, depicting her reflection. The process of Make up trial deals with sequential steps but I will film her face all dressed up with makeup as my first shot and will gradually show the whole process from backwards and also by rearranging certain moments and putting layers, and different filters on it.

Non Linear PART of My Project:

·      The starting of the video backwards showing a girl with fully covered makeup and the last shot being her being without the makeup, depicting a whole different image through that.

·      Secondly I’ll be breaking the process of doing anything in a chronological order and instead there will be repetition as she will be doing and undoing her makeup all this while.

For sound of the film, I am not too sure yet as I want to have a positive but at the same time a kind of dark reflection as a background score. Still figuring out if I’ll have a voice over the video.

My Inspiration for this project is from The Odyssey by Homer in which one of the characters named Penelope who spends all her day long just weaving. And during the whole process she is deliberately unraveling it. She starts off spinning her thread, which prolongs for a while. But we understand the feeling she goes through as a woman who really did have to spend most of her life ensuring that her household was clothed, even regular weaving would have felt endless. At the end showing her obsession with textiles too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4BIVskN9M

LABYRINTHS: Short Response On Borges Reading

Please read the short story by Borges entitled "Circular Ruins" and "The Library of Babel". Please compose a short written response to the story considering the concept of a labyrinths (and the numerous forms of a labyrinth in the story).

 In his stories titled “The Circular Ruins” and “The library of Babel” the author Jorge Luis Borges talks about the concept of labyrinths and its various forms in his stories. His work makes the readers questions about various possibilities and ways of doing things and thus forming a labyrinth of questions that have somewhat substance or a reason in them. According to Borges the ideal world is comprised of fictional stories and characters and its various dynamics. His different and unique style of approaching things leads us wonder if this fictional universe exists. His stories depict meaning in their work, as an art piece is very aesthetic in nature. His stories depict that if you can create chaos if you take away information. What is real or not can also be defined due to differences in culture, religion or communication. And thus Labyrinth can be physical, liberal or of informal value. Borges thereby uses time as labyrinth by looping complex and intricate series of events with unexpected endings in his stories.

TIME DOCUMENTARY: STORY BOARD

STORY BOARD: The life of an art student is often stereotyped; and as is often with stereotypes, no one really knows all that art students do.  Do art students really draw all the time? Do they dress differently from other kids of students? Do they have work in unorganized workspaces? Do they really not sleep? In our documentary, not only do Ishita and I hope to address all the amusing stereotypes of how an art student lives, we also hope to complete them by showing how art students actually find ways to better the world we live in.

GRAPHIC NOVEL: The Departure

Understanding Comics "The invisible Art" by Scout McCloud, is a great book that informs us the time sensibility and various other attributes of creating a comic or a graphic novel. I completely loved the book for it ways of presentation of basic frameworks and templates of certain compositions along with beautifully depicting the display of words and imagery. The third project asked us to create our own person graphic Novel showcasing all the above factors, which was created in InDesign. For my graphic Novel I chose the story of my grandfather, who always wanted to travel around the world and got to when he, being the first one in his family went abroad for higher studies, and after that the story revolves around how moved from one country to the other in search of work and love.