Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Scanimate: One element on black, stretched from far to near
- Type
- Set in Scanimate's manner (Heavy single letters lit from inside their own outline), and let Video Synthesis's lettering (Distort letters as signal, moving between legible and collapsed) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Scanimate's material (Scanlines and rainbow bleed, with color fringing left on the edges); bring in exactly one thing from Video Synthesis (Color from oscillator waveforms, layers from camera and monitor recursion).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.
Caution
- Scanimate Layering glow and scanlines on top while the undulation itself still moves with the smooth interpolation of today's tools.
- Video Synthesis Stopping the moment feedback throws up a pretty accident, then stringing accidents together without learning which control produces which image.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Scanimate (Technique, 1969–1980s) and its accent from Video Synthesis (Technique, 1969–). Structural cues: Glowing outlines; Electronic undulation; Rainbow glow; Scanline texture. Accent cues, used sparingly: Modulated signal; Feedback vortices; Waveforms made visible; Television sets repurposed. Composition: One element on black, stretched from far to near. Type and lettering: Heavy single letters lit from inside their own outline. Let one material quality come from the second style: Color from oscillator waveforms, layers from camera and monitor recursion. Mood: Technology, Nostalgia, Exhilaration, Rebellion, Play. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Scanimate 1969–1980s / Technique / Broadcast Design
An analog video synthesizer that distorted images on a CRT electrically and in real time. It is the true source of the glowing, flying, undulating logos of 1970s and 80s television, and it carried the motion industry before digital.
- Video Synthesis 1969– / Technique / Experimental Film
Generating and modulating the video signal itself like an instrument. Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe's synthesizer turned the television from receiver into raw material, opening video art's technical ground.
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