Here is just an idea of my take on art performance with the use of video editing. The opening shot is a solo introduction with my guitar on the rooftop accompanied by a ‘made up’ Spanish song’ and another guitar solo to close it off. The visual effects include repetitive scenes of the solos to extend the duration of the notes. Extreme colour- saturation has been applied for the entirety of the ‘Spanish Song’. The audio has not been altered throughout the video except for the repetitive scenes where the solos are re-played over and over again just for the fun of it.

My initial Idea for my video came as an inspiration from a YouTube video titled ‘What Languages Sound Like to Foreigners’ by Smokahontas A.K.A Sara Forsberg. Sara who performs in the video pretends she is speaking in many different languages in their appropriate accents and to the foreign ears they may sound quite genuine. She even speaks in English and American accents but with jumbled up sentences that make no meaning. With my video, I tried to take a step further by incorporating singing but focusing on a single language (Spanish) and including made up subtitles that may give the impression the song is being translated when in reality it is not.

Here are some references and the links to their videos.

·      Sara Forsberg – the voice behind the many fake languages of the real world. 

             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcvlxivscw

·      Yoko Ono – Made an art performance singing her own version of Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ at an art exhibition. The whole thing seemed gibberish and a little awkward which is why there is great confidence in what she did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJz9Dh5MsM

 

·      Tony Melendez – Born without arms but Plays guitar with feet. Melendez thinks out of the box and defies all odds. He was one of the few artists that inspired me for my Project Proposal video and thus my video was sung in ‘made up’ Spanish in dedication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuIkrsdrJLY