EXPERIMENTATION: Beach

Continuing with my idea of the fracture of space and time through home video footage, here I have taken various clips of beaches and used the opacity mask tool to create a broken up effect. It makes it look almost like broken glass or bars through which you can look through into a different time or place. Although all the clips I have used have a similar look and location, many of them are from different times. I like the idea of them simultaneously being allowed to exist separately and together through the use of the mask tool. This works with my exploration of time as through these bars/ slashes in the screen you are allowed to see into different temporal moments. Creating these fractures of parts of images, where you are only allowed to see a small section of the clips allows me to explore different moments of space/time within the same screen. I like the effect that the mask tool produces here, it is like you are getting a very selective "slice of life" and are also being forced to link those slices together and form a narrative in your head, even if they have nothing to do with each other. Taking sections (both in terms of cutting up the image and selecting the frames I want to use) and placing them together in a frame creates a whole new approach to linearity, or indeed anti linearity, as the viewer is forced to contend with multiple storylines at once. It is a similar idea to what I have being doing with squares in my work but I think potentially communicates the idea of fragments even better. I hope to be able to take the opacity mask tool in my Final video and use it to again produce these slices of video that communicates a whole new sense of narrative.