- Have removed the blurb at the back and need to think about what I write instead fo the website and publicity – it was too academic and Ruth felt said too much about what I was intending. But equally, I need to find a way to indicate in the work that the statements are made by the AI in the course of our conversations.
- Yesterday I updated the print version of the publication taking on board some of the things Ruth mentioned in our tutorial. She felt the cover was lacking something – I had deliberately designed quite an obscure difficult cover which didn’t do what covers normally do – the title wasn’t there (just like A2’s zine cover) but Ruth suggested that It might benefit from something more concrete/tangible.
- Following my tinkering, I think it could do with a bit more work but now the inner pages are very obviously held between shadow puppets. I like this reference to moving image history –
“Object-generated motion pictures have existed since at least the tenth century CE, in the form of Indonesian and Chinese shadow puppet plays.” McGregor, 2013.
So while the cover is no longer as obscure as I tend to favour, it makes that reference a bit more obvious. I will keep working on it a little for the next couple of days as it’s not quite there yet. It may simply be a case of taking the title off and having that just on the inside. I had repeated half the title on the inner cover as things stand which emphasises a particular reading playing on my surname, along the theme of text being in the wrong place, moving around, unstable – but that’s throughout anyway and doesn’t need underlining in this way as much as the cover needs to be right.
As I intend to write a piece based on the conversations between the AI and me and include that as an insert or separate object I revisited the black blocks with text and have replaced the conversational text with Processing code. I think this works much better anyway – and the image title is simply ‘object’ which I am pleased with.
- I also asked a group to proof it and there were some minor things such as spacing before and after the slashes in the text, rather than only after – it looks cleaner although probably not how code is ever written but then the whole idea of replacing some punctation with simple / isn’t how code is written really – anyhow, I went with the suggestion made.
- I have also played with some ideas and the film this morning including the more contemporary images (the mesh-like digital figure I made in Fuse and the soldiers with their coloured sticks from the AI. I also put the wife from Tom’s first film in there. But I am not sure if this version works as well as the initial one. I will ask peers to help me decide. Having watched it again, it may be I just don’t like the mesh lady included but the other bits are ok. See newer and initial versions below:
McGregor, R. (2013) ‘A New/Old Ontology of Film’ In: Film-Philosophy 17 (1) pp.265–280. At: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2013.0015 (Accessed 13/12/2019).
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Really like this film! Great work, Allan
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Ta 🙂
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