Project 3 Final

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Museum of Modern Art

I went on my own to the Museum of Modern Art. The museum has lots of interesting pieces of work. Sometimes I wonder how they allow little kids to view some of these images. Some pieces are quite graphic. One piece that I really liked was the Love sculpture by Marisol Escobar. It is a human like figure with a Coca-Cola bottle in its mouth. After seeing this piece I also decided to write my art history paper on it. After analyzing and researching this piece, its clear that the artist was trying to correlate the power of big business over people. It was a really interesting and educational trip to the museum. I thought I would have to go to another museum for my art paper but luckily I was able to find something while I was here for this media class. I think the fact that I was looking for a piece of art to analyze also made me pay attention to all the work even more. I loved the whole museum especially the photography gallery, very interesting work there.  

Blog Post 3 Relationships between Shots

I chose to watch a set from the Ultra Music Festival. I was editing a video for a dj and he suggested I watch this to get inspiration for his promotion video.
Ultra Music Festival Showtek Set

I think this entire video relies on editing. The quick cuts and establishing shots really set the festival up. In order to be interested and enjoy this video you need to see all different angles frequently or the viewer would probably just lose interest. When the beat and sounds builds up or drops they cut to better more interesting shots and the video pace seems to speed up. Composition varies from singling out people to larger group shots, to close ups of the DJ. There is always a lot of movement though, people are constantly moving, jumping, dancing, and the quick cut shots correlate with this fast movement. The cuts are obvious as it goes from an up close of a girl to a crowd shot. I think for this genre you need to have variety or people would get bored. With slower cuts of the same shots people would tune out because all they have to focus on then in the music, and they've heard the music set before. The reason they watch festival sets, is for shots of the crowd and the dj. 

Project 3 Edit 1

This is a link to my Project 3