EXPERIMENTATION: Squares

I realised that I was using a lot of the same technical processes in my video work (which is great in one sense as I feel like I am refining my ideas) so I wanted to play around with premiere with the goal of discovering some new functions that I could use to further my ideas and possibly use in more experiments. I had an explore of the video effects tab and found the grid tool. When applying this tool, my clip broke up into little squares which I then adjusted the size and amount of. These grid lines broke up my screen, much in the way that I have been manually breaking up my screen in past experiments. However I didn't want this same effect of vision/ no vision that I had previously be playing with. Instead here, instead of the grid line being black and the squares showing the video I decided to invert that and then further, in place of black squares have inverted colours instead. This allows the viewer to see everything that is happening within the clip, just in a transformed way. Furthermore, I have also played with the sound a bit and decided to cut chunks of it out, so there are a few moments where there is no sound at all. Also, the sound changes from its normal play to being played backwards at many point, and it goes through this forward, no sound, backward, forward, no sound, backward motion a few times through the piece. Without realising it or perhaps just without making the definite connection at the time, I have sonically represented the grid effect on my screen where it flips between original and inverted colour. It in my opinion, has produced a slightly odd effect which i'm not sure if i will use again but is a new and different way to fragment the screen from these which I have been using previously.

"The screen seldom reflects the visual information that light originally carried through a camera lens; rather, what we see is the artifact of computer rearrangements of a number of contributing visual elements, only some of which begin with cinematography."

Dudley, 2010