This project will create an emotional response within the audience. That is why I am using film to capture part of it, so that I can hit more than one sense at a time to create more emotion than I could do with purely just a book. This idea sprang from my recent visit to the World Trade Centre Museum, where all your senses were hit at the same time, images of what happend, accompanied by voice recordings of the event, which made an already emotional situation almost overwhelming.
Video artist Bill Viola is hugely influential to my project. Although he doesn't necessarily concentrate on skin, his videos and installations create a profound emotional surge in the audience, using extreme imagery, camera techniques and very clever use of sound to put his audience exactly in the emotional state that he wants them in.
The above video shows Viola's work in more detail. His work has got me thinking of the different techniques that I can employ to make my audience feel emotionally connected to the project when they first view it. I have already tested front-of-camera techniques like having cling film stretched over the models face and I'm starting to develop this as an idea of how to portray the stress and frustration of the first concept - I think it will instill a feeling of frustration in the audience knowing that they can't see the models face clearly or there is something blocking the camera. This idea will of course have to be built upon and developed but Violas work as got me thinking about how I'm going to project the emotional responses out to my audience.
