Jabriya's Visual Studies

I want to say this project took a lot of planning, but I think in reality it just took a different kind of planning than I was used to. I had to consider the requirements for the project, what my idea was, when to shoot, how to shoot,and how to work out all the editing. I don't think any one part was especially troublesome. There are some video transitions that I couldn't quite get smooth, but I think I spent less time being frustrated than I did with some of the other projects.  I didn't really see this project as much more or less constricting than other projects we've done. We still had specific elements to include, but I feel like there was a lot of room to choose an idea we were excited about in all the big projects. I feel like the project turned out pretty well. I adjusted to what the process of making this kind of art entails and I was satisfied with the outcome. Making the storyboards was helpful, because I had to write everything I wanted to happen down, wh

My final project for digital imaging! It's called Drawn to Life (no affiliation with the video game ^_^ ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIISYvW3hss

All of my blog identity posts up to this point have featured steps in places I have been. For my final post in this series, I wanted to show steps that I would like to one day visit. These are what the stairs look like inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The marble has been warped by visitors climbing the steps for hundreds of years. It's fascinating that if you repeat one footstep enough times, you can move stone. All things take work and time. Hopefully with my own hard work and time I will get to climb these steps as well as other steps around the world. 

This is the link to my in-class stop motion video. My partner and I had fun making it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQsIX7zWquU

  While I spent this whole semester at Temple, I hadn't gone back to visit my old campus. There hadn't been a need for it, but I thought about the steps around Saint Joseph's University. I wanted to use them for one of my blog posts because, though I am not there anymore, it is still part of my identity. I'm still adjusting to being back in school, and so far I love being a Tyler student. Despite the years that have passed, though, revising SJU after walking these steps for a year and a half, it's weird, but in a way, I found it still feels like home. 

This is a link to the in-class exercise we did to try out scale, motion, and volume effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiddPvBUdDQ The video is already a lot visually so I only used one extra effect which just changed the way the edges of the video look.

  There was an old building in my city that got taken down semi-recently. Once everything was cleared, all that was left was this ominously curious alcove and this very rough set of steps. I hadn't even noticed they had this religious graffiti on them until I got up close. I think the symbolism changes when steps are in ruins or the rest of the structure is lost and they don't really lead anywhere. I think they reflect longer journeys and the times when we don't really know where we're going. I thought about climbing them, but I didn't. I should probably be careful if I do change my mind. That 7th step down looks like a tricky one.

Bill Voila - Ascension I watched the video for before I read the description. Even without any background information I did notice the religious symbolism. I thought using water to represent that idea was pretty neat. The float back up was a little slow, but there were videos by some other artists that were much slower. I watched one of Ryan Trecartin's videos and literally said "How is this as long as it is? I'm never going to get this time back." Marilyn Minter -  I'm Not Much But I'm All I Think About I found the this video pacifying. The concept was cool, but I really just enjoyed watching the forms swirl and morph and splash. Nam June Paik -  Electronic Superhighway I feel like this piece would work more efficiently just as an installation. It seems like a really cool work of art, but I don't think the multiple visually stimulating parts of the work lend itself well to the video art form. It captures the flashing of the screens, but I'm sure we

If perhaps you've never been, this is a photo from The Philadelphia Museum of Art. The sculpture at the top of the steps is Diana . As the label reads, since her adoption, " Diana has  reigned as the goddess of the Museum’s Great Stair Hall". I'm much more partial to these stairs than the Rocky steps outside. I've been to this museum a half dozen times at least. Diana is always there, shining and strong. And every time I walk these steps, I leave the museum with new drawings and artists to reference in my sketchbook. The stairs in this building have taken me to spaces that have helped me grow as an artist ever since my first time visiting them in high school.

1. Composing movement - This is so neat. I love when paintings, drawings, and photography has interesting compositions, but it's really evident in these film clips. I've definitely seen part in movies where's I've said "Wow, that's an interesting shot".  I don't think I though about it as often in terms of movement, though. One of my favorite clips in looking at the movement was the one where the river was flowing in one direction and the leaves were blowing the other way. I thought the movement at the beginning and end of cuts was interesting. 2. Editing Space and Time - I've seen Paprika ! It's been a while. I should watch it again. I like match cuts they talked about a lot. It's obvious that things like movement and how the story progresses through time have to be thought of with each scene in relation to the next one. 3. Composing a Video Essay - Having more than one thing going on in film or television is something I think most of us u

If you happen to be a classic horror movie fan, you might recognize these steps from The Exorcist. Last summer my family and I went to Maryland to visit my cousin for a cookout. On the way home from the trip, we stopped in Georgetown to see these iconic stairs. If for some reason you've never seen this film, I won't spoil anything for you. My mother has always loved horror so I fell into the genre at a young age. This is one of her favorite movies and having seen it a few times because of her, I didn't mind the stop at all. My little sister didn't quite "get it", claiming that they were just stairs, but she's not quite as amused by scary things as we are. There's something about descending steeps steps you've seen multiple times, thinking about the scene in the movie, with the person who introduced it to you years ago. It was a fun experience. I hope we end up at other peculiar places this summer.