Rocking horse video- Edit 3

To move on with my surrealism theme, I have taken the video which I most recently edited and added a blur. This I feel enhances the confusion and disorientation previously discussed within the last posted video. The blurred effect reminds me of being underwater or behind frosted glass and not really being able to see the object beyond. This links to when you are in a scary or unfamiliar place not being able to focus on something or someone properly as the noise around you makes you feel uncomfortable and disorientated with the surroundings you are in, creating confusion.

I am going to use the blur effect on my final piece which hopefully should enhance the viewers confusion between the real and fake horse in the video.

Sue Webster & Tim Nobel

Sue Webster and Tim Nobel are artists whom both attended foundation art courses at Cheltenham art college. They both work together on projects, focussing on light and dark (shadows) which depict their interests in Punk Rock music.

The Shadow Sculptures incorporate diverse materials including household rubbish, scrap metal and taxidermy animals. By shining light onto these assemblages they are transformed into highly accurate shadow profiles of the artists.

I like the way that the shadows cause confusion between what the object is on the floor and the how it creates the shadowed image behind it in the light source.

Jerry Uelsmann

Photographer Jerry Uelsmann also focuses surrealism within his work. Uelsmann’s photographs are not meant to depict a familiar place, but rather allow the viewer to make their own interpretations and question its location and realism of the photograph. Like the Pictorialist movement in the twentieth century, Uelsmann’s work played on big ideas, and because those ideas are so vague, the artist did not allow room for literal interpretation of his work, but rather left the interpretation to the subjective. Uelsmann believes that his work touches the viewer on a personal level and communicates his emotion better through the unimaginable settings that he creates.

This is something which i would like also to create in my own work, which would allow the video I am working on to become more emotionally attached with the viewer and therefore have a deeper meaning to it.