I did not have an artist of inspiration as such, rather I was inspired to create a split screened piece of footage similar to that in the film [500] Days of Summer. The particular scene that I have based the construction of my piece around is one that compares the character's expectation toward a specific situation to that of reality. I am doing this by contrasting the virtual journey of Mario and Yoshi to a realistic version with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who stars in [500] Days of Summer) as Mario and David Krumholtz as Yoshi with footage used from a sequence of Nintendo games as well as movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You and [500] Days of Summer. In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of the human eye. Below is the clip that inspired the design of my artwork...

Expectations vs. Reality (500) Days Of Summer Movie Scene from catiski on Vimeo.

Also an effect seen in Welcome To Heartbreak by Kanye West video clip caught my eye, so I tried to apply it to certain scenes in my work. The video, which features Kid Cudi, was filmed in a subway and distinctively expresses multifaceted, colorful patchworks of compression artifacts laced throughout its visuals, with certain scenes shot in slow motion. The resulting choppy, pixelated imagery makes it appear as if the software that rendered the final video outputted a low-resolution, artifact-heavy product. A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including images, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy data compression. This technique is often referred to as 'datamoshing'. In video art, one technique is datamoshing, where two videos are interleaved so intermediate frames are interpolated from two separate sources. Below is the clip that inspired the effects within my artwork...