Friday 14 January 2011
Death Mask Video
Here is the video footage I took of my death mask melting. This was the first mask I made and was made from natural wax. I suspended it over a candle and filmed the process of it melting. I then removed the sound and sped up the footage by x800 so that the video is no longer an hour long, just a few minutes. The video is not very good quality, not helped by the low lighting, but you can see the mask start to drip and then the mouth melt away. The concept of this was the death mask idea but with the idea that the mask represents a person's body, which is slowly dying.
I was thinking of expanding this, to have many death masks, which would all have different height candles, this would show that people degrade at varying rates. I have so far made 3 new death masks.
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Dear Laura,
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the death mask
slowly dying. It has a zen quality.
Just a thought ...
Perhaps, the drama would be enhanced
if you began the film with
extreme close-up shots of dripping
wax without revealing what is
happening, then starting a slow
reverse zoom to reveal the mask
while cutting close-ups in-between
the reverse zoom?
I'm looking forward to viewing your
next films - great work.
bless*
Mark
Hmmm, a good start although I think perhaps a spot light from above the camera to show (hightlight) the melting and distorting would have been good.
ReplyDeleteIs one candle enough? Camera angle could have meant you could have used a couple to accelerate it more in the time allocated...
Great potential :O)
Russell
@neitz yes, sadly the quality of the video wasn't as good as i wished once it was uploaded, but some different shots may have helped. Once I am better at video editing etc it should get better.
ReplyDelete@Russell I like it with one candle, I like the simplicity, but a spotlight could be a good idea. could move the mask closer to the candle too to improve things.