'Synthetic Substance'

‘Synthetic Substance’

So from the few mixed thoughts and ideas I started to experiment with film and photography, with just a quick thought of giving my work a title of ‘synthetic substance’ I considered incorporating sound through my work. Knowing of a young man who is from Poland who creates sounds and music and his work named ‘Synthetic Substance’ , could contact him and ask for the permission to use his work. The sounds and music he creates are euphoric so in my opinion would go well with my work.
Through experimenting and messing around with a video programme on my computer I made a few short films using all my own footage.

TRAIN JOURNEY

The first short video I created includes footage of a train journey I took throughout the summer. The video is approximately 2.30 minutes.
I manipulated the original recording and used a black and white setting. The video is slowed down quite a bit in parts and quickened in other parts. I have over laid footage and used an old fashion effect at 3 certain points only for a short time to add a difference. The reason I filmed a train journey and its connection to my subject of choice is that throughout the process of drinking you take a journey from one state to another. Your mind can wander and travel as also your body when on a night out drinking. Your personality takes a journey your identity is questioned throughout as it changes. The blur and vision of images that you zoom passed on a train is connected to the visions and blurriness you when in a club with lights that flash and merge into another.

THE DANCE

The dance is another short film which I have created, again using my own footage that I had captured in a concert. This video is only 54.60 seconds long but has a lot of movement going on. The video contains a woman who is the singer of the band I am filming, she dances around on stage. The performance is rather theatrical and has a certain circus theme throughout. There are flashing lights that surround the stage which can connect to the feel of effects on the brain by drinking. The atmosphere you would encounter being out drinking, the environment you would be in and the feelings you would feel, I have tried to capture throughout this short video as I think this band portrays it well.

THE HALLUCINATION

This video is the longest of the films that I have made, it is 5.37 minutes long. This video consists of many different aspects throughout and was also filming as I was intoxicated myself at times. Your meant to head into a journey of the unknown, as with drinking. There are snapshots of me walking through a tunnel, to laughing in a mask, in a crowd at a concert, flames of a fire, social gathering, and also have used footage of the singer from ‘The Dance’ video clip.
I researched Jonas Akerlund while working on my videos for some inspiration and information.