I made the taste sense movie by asking class mates and some people I found around school to taste some lemon juice I bought and I would then film how they reacted. Some people didn't really react but others really reacted.
Once I had collected all the footage I imported it to premier and began to cut the clips to the point of emotion in the clips. After consulting with my teacher and fellow classmates we agreed that the transitions between the clips and different people needed to be faster. So i cut the clips in half to create twice as many transitions but each clip was half the length.
After I was happy with the video I thought it was lacking something so i decided to remove the colour and have it black and white. I done this in premier but I then imported the film into Adobe's After Effects to alter the levels of the clips to create truer blacks and a better contrast between the tones.
My final Idea is to represent all the 5 senses in another way, either through video animation photography or installation.
For the taste sense my idea is to take videos of people eating horrible and disgusting things. This shows that the taste buds can be your friend or your foe.
The smell tense i am going to use "smell gels". Smell gells are gel pens where the ink smells inside the pen, so once you write with for example a red pen then they could smell maybe strawberries or raspberries. My idea is to squeeze all the ink from the pen cartridges and put them into viles or test tubes where the audience can open and sniff the different tubes and try and guess the smells.
Sight tense, for the sight tense i am going to use a video and after effects to mask a pair of glasses onto the screen and all of the image inside the glasses are blurred and the video outside the glasses is still in focus, reversing the ability of the glasses.
For hearing i am going to have a set of headphones with a songs sound wave passing through the headphones and have the sound waves move through headphones.
i am still a little unsure with the touch sense, whether to do another installation like the smell sense or to do a photograph of someone cowering away from something that they are reaching our for.
Taste or gustation is one of the two main "chemical" senses. There are at least four types of tastes that "buds" (receptors) on the tongue detect, and hence there are anatomists who argue that these constitute five or more different senses, given that each receptor conveys information to a slightly different region of the brain . The inability to taste is called ageusia.
The four well-known receptors detect sweet, salt, sour, and bitter, although the receptors for sweet and bitter have not been conclusively identified. A fifth receptor, for a sensation called umami, was first theorised in 1908 and its existence confirmed in 2000. The umami receptor detects the amino acid glutamate, a flavour commonly found in meat and in artificial flavourings such as monosodium glutamate.
Sight or vision is the ability of the brain and eye to detect electromagnetic waves within the visible range (light) which is why people see interpreting the image as "sight." There is disagreement as to whether this constitutes one, two or three senses. Neuroanatomists generally regard it as two senses, given that different receptors are responsible for the perception of colour (the frequency of photons of light) and brightness (amplitude/intensity - number of photons of light). Some argue[citation needed] that stereopsis, the perception of depth, also constitutes a sense, but it is generally regarded as a cognitive (that is, post-sensory) function of brain to interpret sensory input and to derive new information. The inability to see is called blindness.
in lass today we loked at narrative in art. we learned about the most famous piece of artistic narrative, the bayeux tapestry. the tapestry is actually an embroided cloth which is around half a metre tall and stretch 70 metres in length. it is said to show the events leading up to a norman conquest into england in 1066. There are also many different types of narrative in art.
- Simultaneous Narrative
- Monoscenic Narrative
- Continuous Narrative
- Synoptic Narrative
- Panoptic Narrative
- Progressive Narrative
- Sequential Narrative
we were also shown the "five senses" painted by Antoon Claeissens. the painting shows 5 females holding an object and with an animal nearby. the animals are symbolic to each of the senses as are the objects they hold.
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For my final idea i have chosen to to do an installation piece in which the audience will react in some way to my art. This will be by touch or sight. Fitting as my piece is about the 5 senses. My piece will show a representation of each of the senses.
Listen - my idea for the listen sense is to have an image of a pair of headphones that have a soundwave moving through the headphones, from left to right ear.
sight - for my sight sense is to have an image of a pair of glasses on screen but have all the video around the outside of the glasses in focus, but all the video inside out of focus.
taste - for taste i am going to video different people reacting to certain tastes like sour lemons or bitter choclate.
