Veejay Academy // Graduation project
At the end of the Veejay Academy year it was time to graduate. For this I started a project that was very close to my heart.
In 2015 I went to South-Africa for the second time with my parents and made amazing shots of many different animals in the wild.
I never really knew what to do with the massive amount of video that I had shot there.
Until I had the opportunity to use them in my graduation project.
Besides that, the location was perfect for cinematic images: The EYE Film institute in Amsterdam.
VIDEO
I wanted to show the beauty of nature, but in a different way than we are used to. I wished to change the way we look at wildlife documentaries.
Having experienced the wild side of nature first hand while shooting these video's I've noticed that traditional wildlife documentaries forget one very crucial component in being truthful to nature and that is: capture the unexpected.
Traditional docu's have a linear structure, what makes them predictable: a voice-over tells the story of whichever creature we are looking at, they either tell facts about the species or make up a story around what the animal is going through in social or physical situations.
Using these shots in combination with Vj-ing gives way to improvising. every performance will differ from the next. It's not a linear story anymore, it can change, it can go right or even wrong, no scrips necessary, just like really life. Every new shot brings a new choice for what happens next.
AUDIO
Just like the video, the audio is just as open to change. Together with music composer YANDIAN (Yannick Okhuysen) we started working on a base track.
While I was making video's YNDIAN worked on a track that combined his beautiful electronic, guitar and ambient soundmix with more Traditional African soundboards.
Even though his music sounds very technologically engineered, it barely is. He works with a Roland mv8000 sampler which has a horrible loading time and a limitation of only 8 tracks. With this he made the base-track that you hear beginning at 0.32 seconds in. The African singing came straight out of his phone, simply downloaded from the internet. Over that Live played his electric guitar.
Camera & VJ // Nienke Mink
Audio // YANDIAN (Yannick Okhuysen)
In 2015 I went to South-Africa for the second time with my parents and made amazing shots of many different animals in the wild.
I never really knew what to do with the massive amount of video that I had shot there.
Until I had the opportunity to use them in my graduation project.
Besides that, the location was perfect for cinematic images: The EYE Film institute in Amsterdam.
VIDEO
I wanted to show the beauty of nature, but in a different way than we are used to. I wished to change the way we look at wildlife documentaries.
Having experienced the wild side of nature first hand while shooting these video's I've noticed that traditional wildlife documentaries forget one very crucial component in being truthful to nature and that is: capture the unexpected.
Traditional docu's have a linear structure, what makes them predictable: a voice-over tells the story of whichever creature we are looking at, they either tell facts about the species or make up a story around what the animal is going through in social or physical situations.
Using these shots in combination with Vj-ing gives way to improvising. every performance will differ from the next. It's not a linear story anymore, it can change, it can go right or even wrong, no scrips necessary, just like really life. Every new shot brings a new choice for what happens next.
AUDIO
Just like the video, the audio is just as open to change. Together with music composer YANDIAN (Yannick Okhuysen) we started working on a base track.
While I was making video's YNDIAN worked on a track that combined his beautiful electronic, guitar and ambient soundmix with more Traditional African soundboards.
Even though his music sounds very technologically engineered, it barely is. He works with a Roland mv8000 sampler which has a horrible loading time and a limitation of only 8 tracks. With this he made the base-track that you hear beginning at 0.32 seconds in. The African singing came straight out of his phone, simply downloaded from the internet. Over that Live played his electric guitar.
Camera & VJ // Nienke Mink
Audio // YANDIAN (Yannick Okhuysen)
