During Winter quarter, I got in the habit of creating an “exegesis” post for each of my projects. They contained an inside look at the process behind the creation of the project, and my view of the conceptual ideas behind the film/video.
Consider this a placeholder for just such an exceedingly extensive and detailed post about the process of creation of “Transference Simulation“, mostly regarding my post-production workflow choices and process, evolution of the conceptual content, and some explanations for my choices. And including, of course, a web-compressed video file of the final final cut. First, I will actually finish that tunnel of wires, and finish my eval, then I will write this post of gloriousness. You will see.
Here is an MPEG4 AVC encode of Transference Simulation, for your repeated viewing pleasure.
Transference Simulation is my final project for the Mediaworks program at the Evergreen State College. It is an animated music video recursively examining the representation of gender and sexuality in popular media. By accentuating morbidity, and asserting the vapid portrayal of the human body as a sexual object, this project attempts to bring light to the superficiality and delusional distraction of pop-culture media, such as the pop music video. Affected reflexively by this blight, the diegesis is allowed to play out and descend necrotically into the metaphorical consequents of this infection. Specific meaning is intended to be created in a willful dialectic between the viewer and his or her experience of the work.
This project was submitted to the Platform Animation Festival, and I ambivalently awaited word as to my acceptance or rejectance for quite some time. I had a feeling that it was likely to get rejected because of its lack of conceptual cogency, and overall stylistic roughness, and my inclinations were correct.
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hello jed. i am trying to get a hold of you so i can inquire about dvd studio pro, authoring dvd’s, etc. i am assuming you know all this because you seem to know how to use everything. i tried to figure it out today, toggling with compressor, etc., and i have encountered many problems and frustrations. i was wondering about how you are creating the mediaworks dvd, and if maybe i can sit in and soak up your expertise. or if you can simply help me out. my sister is putting on a little play at the preschool she works at, and i offered to videotape it and make a little dvd for her. i thought i would be able to figure out the dvd part fairly easily, but it didn’t work out that way. anyway, let me know if you can help me out in any way. i even did the tutorial, but it doesn’t answer the questions i have, and everything seems to be restricted to templates, which is really annoying. whatever. hopefully you get this message. thanks, dude. ian wood, catfishwood@hotmail.com
“The connection was reset”
over and over. I want Transference Simulation. I am thwarted. It doesn’t matter who I am.
I would love to see the final cut, but I keep getting the “Try again…” page. What is that? Can you defeat it?
I would love to see the final cut, but I keep getting the “Try again…” page. What is that? Can you defeat it?