Project Lajo proposal/preview

Over the past 8 weeks, with the help of Calit2 and CRCA, I have been working to define some techniques for producing a 4K digital film using consumer level cameras. I have now completed the research portion of my project, establishing several different production techniques/workflows and generally getting comfortable working with high resolution video. At this point I am prepared to continue working on a finalized 4k film project.

The film will focus on the complex and existential tension that emerges in response to neo-urban life in the southern California land/data scape. More and more life in this region is fragmented, occurring simultaneously in physical and virtual spaces. In my film, concepts of time and movement will be re-examined and evaluated in terms of their effects on the somatic, cogno-somatic and data-somatic architectures.

To produce this film I am requesting CRCA/Calit2 support in the form of access to a mac computer equipped with Final Cut Pro studio, and (if possible) Adobe After Effects. I would ideally like to schedule 10-20 hours of computer time per week. This project will be completed by the end of fall quarter (December 19).

Advising me on this project will be visual arts professor and Calit2 investigator Ricardo Dominguez.
I will also be collaborating with UCSD music major Micky Drummond, to produce a soundtrack.