December 2008
Sleepwalking(1:45min)
BFA Animation, Film and Video
California Institute of the Arts
Completed as an undergraduate project in the winter of 2008. The film utilized optical printing techniques such as bi-packing, masking, impositions, and various flicker rhythms.
Assisting professors were Kirsten Winter(Film as Film I), Beth Block(adv. optical printing), Charlotte Price(Objects of illusion), and Betzy Bromberg(Sound and Image).
2010 - Studio Plus Null - .MOV Screening Leipzig, Germany
2009 - Planet Art - Enschede Enschede, the Netherlands
2009 - Studio B93 - Guest Artist Screening Enschede, the Netherlands
2008 - Bijou Festival - Animation Festival Los Angeles, United States
Production Credits:
Model/Actress: Amber Gove Wilson
Lighting Assistant: Grace Donovan, Einar Baldvin, and Melvina Wong
Sound and Image by: Jovanna Rebecca Tosello
Production Notes:
The film required several strategies to produce the desired super imposition effect without downgrading image quality. The film was manipulated through re-photographing film in the optical printer through camera and projector bi-packing and masking.
A strategy was devised to transfer the peacock footage, originally shot with color negative, to a high contrast black and white film stock. Wedges were taken to test the contrast latitude of image(Located in the upper right of the image above). The image was photographed with an slight increase of light in every photograph taken. The goal was to find the correct exposure while preserving the luminosity of the color image.
The face was reshot with the optical printer which black tape silhouetting the corners of the printer gate. The tape was placed in such a way to mask out the hair and ears of the original model. The final result left just the eyes, nose, and mouth. (Located on the lower right of the image above)