The Nutshell Statement

Kenneth Kwok is a native of Toronto, home of the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). He has experience in filmmaking and video editing and possibly even sound editing. He is currently studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Material Arts and Design since Fall of 2011.

My art style varies from short-films to portraits of random celebrities and friends, and even woodwork. When making videos, I prefer to make videos of love and friendship and often without any dialogue. I believe the theme of love and friendship is really easy to work with because this theme is so broad that anything like comedy or thrillers can be added in the work. Like many good films, my videos require a well thought-out story line. Aside from that, to make my videos, I use whatever equipment I have, like a tripod, to get high and low shots without the use of a ladder or a higher platform. A decent camera is required as well of course.

In my opinion, I think all films are similar, if not the same. But I guess my work is different from the others such that I use cheap and good quality equipment and I like to include some sort of comedic relief in most of my videos.

There is inspiration everywhere; you just have to know where to find it. My inspiration is all over Youtube ranging from singer and song writers like ClaraC, to film makers like WongFu Productions

As a young artist, my goal is to learn from the best and hopefully become a well-known artist.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Assignment #3: Audio

Audio art has the ability to narrate a story or an environment to the audience that listens.   It is to be done without any visuals at all.  This gives the audience an opportunity to use their imagination and interpret the sounds in anyway they please.  The theme of this audio assignment is the time from “Dusk to Dawn”.  In response to this theme, I’ve decided to do a combination of sounds from when one wakes up in the morning and some highly energetic music.  When the audio clip begins, it starts off with about 5 seconds of silence, which gives the audience time to wonder in anticipation about what they are about to hear.  After the silence, we can hear the sounds of the clock ticking away until the listener is awaken by an unpleasant alarm which irritates the listener enough to slam on the alarm clock in order to turn it off.  As the clip continues, we will hear sounds that almost everyone starts their morning with.  So far, all we have heard is “morning”, assuming that the audience usually wakes up in the morning.  However, we then begin to hear music in the background.  We are at a club.  In fact, this isn’t in the morning.  This is at night. The idea of my audio assignment is to give the audience something different to listen to, something we wouldn’t usually hear with the sound combination I’ve provided.  Ex.  We wouldn’t usually hear someone get up in the morning just to go somewhere with loud music and a heavy bass.  I got the idea of “coming alive” at night from the idea of a vampire.  It is said that vampires don’t like the sunlight so they tend to sleep during the day and wake up at night.  This is similar in a sense.  Some people like to rest during the day and go the clubs during the night until the break of dawn.  The music that I’ve chosen is by DJ Tiësto, “Elements of Life, Ten Seconds Before Sunrise, and Bright Morningstar”. The only reason why I chose to use music without lyrics to is to give the audience a chance to imagine the surrounding environment and the movement throughout the piece.


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