2.25.2015

In class Wed Feb 25th


Birdman: discuss



Assignment 1 Due
- show me your Thumbdrive
- Email me your youtube link 



Project 1 Due end of class 4:30pm today hand in your .mov files on your thumb drive. Files should be labeled as: your name-loop.mov or your name-30sec.mov




How to export a video in Premiere

- Audio Fade

- File Export
- Check Export Settings
- Check Sequence Name
-- Final Cut XML




Work on Project

2.23.2015

In class Mon Feb 23rd


Assignment 1 Due
- Thumbdrive
- Email me your Youtube account link


Film Editing
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking.

The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms like poetry or novel writing.

Shot
shot is a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time.[1] Film shots are an essential aspect of a movie where anglestransitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movement.

Scenes
In Filmmaking and video production, a scene is generally thought of as the action in a single location and continuous time. Due to the ability to edit recorded visual works, it is typically much shorter than a stage play scene. 

Film Transition
film transition is a technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combined. Most commonly this is through a normal cut to the next scene. Most films will also include selective use of other transitions, usually to convey a tone or mood, suggest the passage of time, or separate parts of the story.

Cut (transition)
In the post-production process of film editing and video editing, a cut is an abrupt, but usually trivial film transition from one sequence to another. It is synonymous with the term edit, though "edit" can imply any number of transitions or effects. The cut, dissolve and wipe serve as the three primary transitions.

Match Cut
match cut, also called a graphic match, is a cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which objects in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically.

Continuity Editing
Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing and video editing in the post-production process of filmmaking of narrative films and television programs. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.




Watch 2001 Space Odyssey Intro



Watch Birdman




Work on Project 2
- Loop
- 30 second Appropriated Story

2.18.2015

In class wed Feb 18th



Due Today!
- Write up about your John Waters inspired Director

- Your video clips of camera angles, movement and POV in Premiere



Finish watching Dead Man - Discuss






Assignment #1 due Mon 23rd

- Show me your 8GB thumb drive
- Create a Youtube account if you do not already have one and email me the link to your channel.



Project 2 

Appropriation & the Loop

description:
For the first part of this project you will appropriate video from Archive.org. You will then cut and edit the appropriated video to create a 30 second story. The video can be no longer or shorter then 30 seconds exactly. You may use the audio as it is edited or you may replace it with audio you find on CCMixter.org. Be careful NOT to choose a sound track that is more powerful then your visuals. A silent film will work also.

For the second part of this project you need to create a video loop. (Use the same video clips you downloaded for part 1). Be innovative, be thoughtful and be precise. Loop creation is all about syncing up the beginning with the end. Have you ever seen a mobius strip? The loop takes the inevitable beginning and end out of video as a medium and creates infinity a repeated moment stuck in time.
You will be working with Adobe Premiere to create this project. When you are finished with your Videos export them as .movs. Save your videos using this naming convention: yourname_01, yourname_02 (ie... jvonstengel_01.mpeg or jvonstengel_01.mov)

whats due:
* 2 Final videos as high rez as possible. I will collect all your files in class on a portable hard drive.
* Upload your videos to your Youtube account.


Due: Feb 25th at the end of class


Appropriation


ap·pro·pri·a·tion

əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/
noun
  1. 1.
    the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
    "the appropriation of parish funds"
  2. 2.
    a sum of money or total of assets devoted to a special purpose.


in Art
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.[1] The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literaryvisual,musical and performing arts). In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are theReadymades of Marcel Duchamp.

Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.


Archive.org & CCmixter.org
- What are these sites how do they work?
- What is Creative Commons licensing
- Whats on these sites?
- How to appropriate?







2.15.2015

In class Mon Feb 16th

Bring your Video Recording devices and their cables to class today!



Lets shoot some video!
Shoot an example of each Camera angle, POV and Camera movement!


Camera angles


Look at Adobe Premiere



Watch Deadman

2.10.2015

In class Wed Feb 11th


How to use Google Docs
- Making a new file
- Naming a document
- Sharing a document
- Printing a document
* More then just Microsoft Word



Research one of the Indy Film Makers on John Waters List:

- Watch one whole movie or part of 5 different movies
- Write about what you saw: 

1) What was interesting/different about this film compared to a “normal” Hollywood movie?

2) about narrative
- how does the story progress through time?
- how are the main characters revealed? When in the storyline?
- what genre is the film? does it stay true to its genre or does it break conventions?
- is the film about the medium itself? does it incorporate the context of the medium into the films storyline?
- have you seen this storyline before? where?

3) about use of camera angles and perspective
- how does the director use camera angles to control point of view?
- how does the perspective add to the context of the scene?
- does the director use a predominate angle through out the film or a variety?
- how does the angle effect the mood of the scene?

4) about content
- what are the main colors in the film?
- how does the use of color effect the mood?
- how realistic or surreal is the environment? how does this play a role in the narrative?
- how does the film use or break stereotypes?
- is the film beautiful or sublime?
- what era of technology is the film? does this change during the film?




Shots “Framing” and the meaning behind angles, POV & camera movement.

Camera angles

Ask yourself these questions:
* What is the relationship of the viewer to the characters in the film?
* What direction are the characters moving from shot to shot, scene to scene?




Watch Man with a Movie Camera
Look for the different Camera angels and POV utilized through the film. Write them down as you see them.






2.08.2015

In class Mon Feb 9th

Hello and welcome to the ARt317 Digital Art & Design IV, Time Based Media class blog.

This blog is the focal point of the class and contains all of the information you need to successfully complete this course. Your first assignment is to bookmark this blog on your personal computer and to check it often. The address is art-317.blogspot.com.


DA&D IV is a video course that explores the creative possibilities of a medium based on time, the 4th dimension. We will create video interventions within real space, appropriate, loop and mash-up video as well as learn about classic film creation.


You will need a Youtube account for this class. A DV cam or digital camera with the ability to record video would also be very useful.


8 GB flash drive or larger.


this is going to be an exciting and technologically advanced course lets see what we can do.



Basics of Film and Video

- Frame Rate = Frames Per Second = FPS
- Persistance of Vision
- Interlaced vs Progressive
- New ATSC (replacement for NTSC) standard
- all digital video files are compressed with a Video Codec


* how does film look different then video?


Film
- 24 FPS
analogue
- popular sizes are 8mm, 16mm35mm & 70mm
--- most feature films are 35mm
--- most indi-films are 16mm (traditionally)


DV & DVD Digital Video
- 30 FPS
digital
- Aspect ratios 4:3 or 16:9 (wide screen)
- at this point screen resolution is always 72dpi
- DV codec resolution is 720 x 480 pixels for NTSC
--- when translating animation from Flash make the resolution 720 x 534


HD, HDTV, DVD & HDV Digital Video
- 30 FPS
- digital
- 720i is 1280 x 720 pixels
- 1080i is 1920 x 1080 pixels



Digital Resolution Comparison Chart





Deconstructing Film and Video
- we are looking at 3 different aspects of a film or video

1) narrative
- how does the story progress through time?
- how are the main characters revealed? When in the storyline?
- what genre is the film? does it stay true to its genre or does it break conventions?
- is the film about the medium itself? does it incorporate the context of the medium into the films storyline?
- have you seen this storyline before? where?


2) use of camera angles and perspective
- how does the director use camera angles to control point of view?
- how does the perspective add to the context of the scene?
- does the director use a predominate angle through out the film or a variety?
- how does the angle effect the mood of the scene?


3) content
- what are the main colors in the film?
- how does the use of color effect the mood?
- how realistic or surreal is the environment? how does this play a role in the narrative?
- how does the film use or break stereotypes?
- is the film beautiful or sublime?
- what era of technology is the film? does this change during the film?







Where does this movie fit on this chart?