Watch Me Move

         "Music is Me" by Delbert DuBose Jr, 2015.

 

I wanted to talk about a past project I worked on. In  a project before this one, I created a video project where I wanted to told a narrative about what music is to me. With a new project I  wanted to look at the music in a different way so initially I wanted to do a project about the club experience. As obvious in my last video pieces I love dancing. I originally had the idea to 3-D model a scene of my car driving to the club with the music playing and end up with a video montage of me dancing at the club. What I ended up creating was a video piece that breaks down at the core what I wanted to explore which was my dancing. I followed somewhat of a process or a journey over my pieces. First I told a story about the bay area and what from the area influenced the music and how I respond to it. My second project, Music is Me, let the viewer into my world where they see how important music is to me and how music is reflected in everything that I do. In this new piece I explore music at its core, the way I interact with the music, which is literally just the dancing.

"Global Groove" Nam June Pike, 1973.

                "Club Music" First Interpretation

               "Club Matte" Second Interpretation

 

 

What I attempted to do, other than just dragging and dropping video footage into After Affects, was to use the video I captured over multiple layers to create a dancing motif that references choreography at times and at other times just looks like a group dancing together yet every figure is me. I also went beyond the footage and I used my dancing figure as a silhouette to  get a different effect in the piece. I also was influenced in my work by a video in 1973 called Global Groove. O was drawn in by the duplication of form throughout the video. Repetition and motion guided my inspiration for my video. Overall I just attempted to have fun with the project and see where it took me whether than having an end in mind and seeing what kind of video piece I come up with when I steer away from a narrative. I just let the project guide me.

 

 

       "Watch Me Move" Delbert S DuBose Jr, 2015.