Theme Sound : Insomnia
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Five Things
1. While learning about iMovie '09, we made maps of the program. [will be the following post].
2. We also began editing for our final video. I made progress and decided what direction I want to go in. I collaborated the videos that I had filmed and made them black and white with a high contrast to make it more dramatic. I also decided to remove the audio and add my own audio in [looming, monster-like sound, subtle but it adds a nice effect].
3. Meeting with Anne
4. After editing and meeting with Anne, I decided to do a bunch more filming. I will do similar things I did last week including more still videos of the alarm clock, but will also do more still videos of the things I do when I am up all night.
5. Announcements:
Due Next Week
1. Final Blog Review writing assignment
2. Meet with Anne to discuss your 3 minutes of video footage
3. Begin and try to complete Video Analysis (Getty) if you need a break from editing
4. Work on editing your rough footage
5. Sign up for an individual meeting if you would like one during finals week.
6. Your final project exported as a full quality Quicktime Movie or Mpeg4 on your External Hard drive as you walk in the door.
7. Final Portfolio Disks - final files only as a data disk - please do not make an iDVD:
- Best documentation available of your Performance Art work
-Performance Art Formal Proposal (as a PDF)
-Performance Art Documentation Blueprint (as a PDF)
- Abstract or Environmental Sound
-Theme/Research Sound
-Abstract Video
-1 minute 20 seconds of Contemplative Video
- Final Video
-Final Blog Review (as a PDF)
8. Video Analysis (Getty)
Due by Dec. 13 , noon.
1. Create a final Project Grade Portfolio blog at a separate URL containing only the works listed as due from your final Project Grade Portfolio.
-Post only the assignments listed as required for your final portfolio above.
2. Email me your final Project Grade Portfolio blog URL when you have posted your files successfully.
Peer Critique
Does the video maintain continuity by editing for graphical and rhythmical relationships to create successful transitions among different image frames? Give examples of this using a minimum of 5 screen shots that move us from frame to frame. Provide a written description with consideration of at least 3 of the following:
- Color temperature(s) or degrees of black and white contrast
- Graphical layout and composition of frames (the 2D layout of the picture)
- Proximity (closeness of camera to subject)
- Pacing
- Repetition
- Synchronization or asynchronization with the rhythm of the soundtrack
This student maintains continuity within his video through successful graphical and rhythmical relationships and transitions. Below are six frames that exemplify graphical editing:
This section begins with this image which has strong verticals
Similar movement is continued in the next frame, although it is a different picture
In the previous frame, the verticals descended to the right, while this one descends to the left, although the verticals are continued.
The student repeats the second frame, with the verticals descending to the right again.
The last two frames are repeated from earlier, but continue to display graphical editing as the student kept the theme of verticals that looked similar with different images.
He also uses color repetition and contrast in these frames. The student begins with a rainbow of colours and then juxtaposes that image with monochromatic images.
Does the video include non-linear structures (i.e. structures other than linear narrative)? These might include acausal structure, list structure, and cyclical/circular structure? Please describe the structures within the video.
The student does use non-linear structure; his composition displays list structure [listing vertical images, listing circular images], and also cyclical structure [he begins and ends with the same images - the verticals].
Does the video modulate in pace so that it has sections of slow and fast time? Please describe this in terms of constancy and variation over the course of the entire work.
The image transitions shift from very quick to slow, depending on what part of the rhythm the student is deciding to focus on. This is an example of variation. He also shows variation with directional eye movement; the position of the pictures [mainly the circular ones] brings the viewers eye across the page in multiple directions. However, he shows constancy with the repetition of images and how he always goes back to the same pattern of images.
How does the artist break patterns to avoid monotony? Give an example.
The student breaks monotony in his video through the usage of both geometric, vertical pictures, with more organic curvilinear ones. He alternates them depending on the changes in the sound's rhythm, allowing for them to still work together and not make the piece too constant and expected.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Mind Map & Questions
Questions
1. What is your research topic?
Insomnia.
2. What research will you do?
I will probably go to psychology related websites [psychology.com i already know is a good source], because they have articles by doctors, therapists, etc, who talk about how and why a lot of disorders exist and how people deal with or are affected by them [including insomnia].
3. What is the idea behind your piece?
The idea behind my piece is to take the viewer through the different stages, emotions, reactions, etc of an insomniac's night. Starting with when everybody else goes to sleep, the initial realization of being alone, which at first is not bad at all, it's quite calming. The next is trying to keep occupied by constantly doing something [i like to draw, paint, create, make lists, organize, etc]. The third stage is when the mood shifts. When I run out of things to occupy myself with I literally hit a wall and I realize the most literal, dramatic silence you could think of. Initially my thoughts begin to race but I am no longer moving around and then those halt as well and my emotions take over. Basically, I want to [in five minutes] go through these transitions and show the effects of them.
4. Why is this of interest or of importance to you?
This theme is obviously important to me as it basically controls my life, and therefore, is my life. I have had a strange relationship with insomnia and continue to both appreciate it and be terrorized by it [shown in various stages of the night].
5. What will it look like?
I think the best way to portray my idea is to set my camera up on a tripod in my room. The room will be dark with one bright light [my desk light] to create dramatic lighting, and all that will be moving is me. I'm going to leave it on all night, or at various moments of the night because I don't think I can tape that much, and in my final project I will have fast-forwarded it and then gone to normal speed at key moments. Time is an important aspect of this project.
Five Things
1. contemplative video intro & tech demo
- art as process
- series of ongoing events
- movement, effect, building of
- didactic art [response, critique, education, propaganda]
- to the point
- political/social/etc purpose
- central park gates
- art as formalism
- concerned about shapes, colour, light, image itself
2. Theme Sound Critique
After discussing the next video assignment, we continued theme sound critiques. I was satisfied with mine as I was listening to the feedback. Although no one said "insomnia" outright, they were talking about a sense of building anxiety and even dream like, which is what I was trying to portray insomnia as. Considering I had circa ten times more sleep than usual that week I was working on the project, I surprisingly was able to create a project that defined insomnia for me.
3. Practicing with Video Camera
For the five minute still camera shoot, I decided to place the camera low to the ground next to a bike rack [you can see the bike rack but its to the left]. I was interested in this spot because there were huge waves of people going to the bus stop, but there'd be breaks with just a few people. I just liked the variety of people walking, running, biking, etc, and thought it'd turn out well.
4. Mind Map & Q's [following post]
5. Peer Critique [following post]
Monday, November 15, 2010
Five Things [Friday, November 12, 2010]
ONE : NOTES
Power lies in appealing to sensory perception.
Graphical Editing
- editing graphics to fit rhythm
- edit from frame to frame based on visual patterns within the frame or breaks in those patterns [emphasized or changed up from frame to frame] - balance what stays the same and what changes [constancy & variation]
- where something is placed within the frame
- colour / colour temperature
- degree of focus
- proximity
Rhythmical Editing
- editing rhythm to fit graphics
- editing using rhythmical patterns or breaks in those patterns [constancy & variation]
- for eye & ear
2. "Gardyn" / "White Magic" / "Give a Minute"
After learning about Graphical and Rhythmic Editing, it was interesting to analyze these videos and pick out subliminal details that I once overlooked. For instance, the "Give a Minute" campaign commercial exemplified all of the rhythmic and graphical editing techniques for me. It managed to keep some aspects the same while varying others, such as moving the post it or keeping it in the same place. It also employed the "list structure" at one point when it kept the post it in exactly the same spot while changing the background [to the beat of the music- similar to the rest of the piece]. Then in the finale, there was a variation in the colour of the post it which is unexpected yet non-disruptive.
3. [Already Blogged : "Inception Trailer"]
by the way, here is the link to that trailer : http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=inception+movie+trailer
4. iMovie & Project
- film strip
- frames [individual image]
- clip [series of frames]
- time code [how you locate things along the film strip; frames per second - 29.97]
- 00:00:00:00
- hours:minutes:seconds:frames
- not telling a story
- focusing on patterns, variation & consistency
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