Kaleidoscope

Update I

After shooting some clips of my hands to experiment with in premier pro I have decided to change my idea a little. I was inspired by a kaleidoscopic video of someone walking through the streets. The interesting shapes and patterns that were on the screen really grabbed my attention and I have decided to abandon the first person view for this approach instead. I will still be shooting hands but I will be shooting them a little more abstract now.

Videos with Hands

These are some of the videos that I've been looking at for inspiration on how I could shoot hands. I found vimeo was a much more helpful and creative video database than site like youtube.

Hands of bresson
http://vimeo.com/98484833
This was a very interesting look into how hands can really say a lot about what is going with a person. Bresson really focuses on hands in his films and this video really shows the imapct they have.

Street Hands Project
http://vimeo.com/59755897
Hands can be used as very powerful symbols, there are some interesting gestures created for this street art movement.

Harper Collins
http://vimeo.com/51609270
I liked the simple minimalistic style and colours of this Harper Collins ad.

Hands
http://vimeo.com/37639703
I liked the fluid motions created in this video. Very simple and elegant.

Hands on 
http://vimeo.com/98417189
This is a very clever music video  the utilises a bird eye view of instruments while hands enter and leave playing each one.

Met Museum: Hands

This was an insightful look into some of the meanings that hand gestures have represented in art. I will definitely consider that symbolism of what gestures and shape I shoot.

www.metmuseum.org/connections/hands#/Complete/

Honda Hands

I thought this was a very clever ad from Honda. I liked the first person perspective and use of hands in similar way to Shin Young's paintings.

Proposal

I've been thinking lately about shooting a video about hands. Hands are used to communicate and create which is why I thought they could make a intersesting subject matter. You can often tell alot about a person from their hands and this is something I'm exploring.

Shin  Young is an artist who has created a series of first person point of view paintings on newspaper depicting her hands doing various activities. My idea is to film my hands from a similar perspective in various gestures.

Music & Soundtrack

The audio and soundtrack for this project cant be anything we don't have the licensing for, so we've been given the option to work with music students to produce our soundtrack.
Rather than work with someone I don't know I've decided to ask my someone I know who has just finished getting a degree in music production to help me with the soundtrack.

He currently produces music under the moniker of 'nkata' and has sent me some tracks he made.
I was after something subtle and quite slow that wouldn't take too much attention away from the video but would instead supplement the movements. Theses are the tracks I'm considering.