Here’s our marble video:

 

 

And here’s my part of the video in slow motion (I thought it sounded and looked cool so I wanted to include it here):

 

My group members were Elene Yess, Daniela Charter, and Malka Lohmann. Our group had a lot of ideas, so we decided to tie together our videos by using bright colors and then incorporate our own ideas into our individual videos. We also had the idea to connect our videos through a colored paper towel roll at the end of each video, to create the idea of the marble going into one roll and coming out of another roll each video. I helped to brainstorm some ideas for sound suggesting we find random objects that the marble would make noise hitting off of.

I learned from my classmates some new ways of how to make implied connections between creations (such as incorporating similar elements) and how to make clips seem continuous.

This project connected to my prior knowledge of art in that learning a new technique/ medium tends to follow a similar process as this did. Like in learning to throw on a wheel for example, there is a lot of trial and error, and learning from what didn’t work. Similarly, it must’ve took me a million videos to get it the way I wanted, and I had to continuously make tiny adjustments. I would press play too late, I would follow the motion of the marble too awkwardly, the marble would fall off the track in the beginning, or it would decide to take an unpredicted path than previously and miss the tube at the end. Watching my test trial videos actually allowed me to see what needed to be changed better though.

In my future classroom, I like the idea of mashing up videos of different students’ work, or of them making that work. I also like the idea of them working collaboratively on something together, like maybe each contributing something to a single artwork.