Lately, I’ve been reevaluating the amount of time I spend on social media. I had read a quote that really resonated with me: “there’s a fine line between social networking and wasting your life away.” I decided to use my video performance to explore this concept. I went through snapchat and tried every filter. I sat with the filter for the longest amount of time Snapchat would let me – 10 seconds. I captioned the videos with blunt titles to get at the monotony and sheer waste of time I spent trying each filter. I slowed the videos down in post-production to exaggerate the amount of time I wasted. If I continue this as a final project, I’d like to involve more people and focus on a few particularly absurd filters. I will interplay a video shot with a DSLR of the subject using snapchat with the actual footage from snapchat.
Media Art I – Spring 2017
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The way you incorporate snapchat filters with your performance is very interesting. I understand how it doesnt quite work the way you may like. To make this about Snapchat or social media you have to incorporate the action of participating in social media. That said, snapchat’s format is so short it’s hard to get the performance going. So perhaps, you should reference snapchat in making a video like this and then put it into clips to post it…