Unit 35 : Task 1
Unit 35 : Task 1 Norman McLaren: Past Practise: Norman McLaren is a past practitioner in the art world, who was born in Scotland in 1914 and died in Canada in 1987. Although Norman never actually worked on a video installation himself, after he died people who enjoyed his work adapted it into video installations for his fans and the public to enjoy. Norman created in his time live action experimental films, art work, and documentaries, in which one of short documentaries won an Oscar in 1953. Norman had a very clever and different way of recording the sound in some of his videos, instead of having diegetic or non-diegetic sounds he would scratch into the film itself to get the sound that is known to him. A famous piece that features this type of sound was "Dots", this is also a different piece of art because it doesn't feature any filmed footage. What you see in the video is what Norman McLaren has drawn onto the film itself. Technologies and Techniques: No...