TRM 153/ SPRING 2013/ THURSDAY: October 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

VOICE/SOUND CRITIQUE 3

VOICE/SOUND
CRITIQUE 3
Due: November 7, 2013

For next week, you must create a 3-4 minute audio piece to be presented in class on Thursday November 7. In order to create this work, you will:

1. Create a library of 30 sounds and/or clips.
At least half must be originally recorded by you. Up to 15 clips may be appropriated.Make a companion text document with the file name, description, and duration of each of these clips. Please note the appropriated clips. Title your clips like this: Lastname_00_description.mp3 (Example: Cage_34_drip.mp3)

2. Create a 3-4 minute audio work that responds to rhythm, narrative, or space. We will screen these in class.

Your audio work must include:
At least 15 of your 30 clips. No more than half of your clips may be appropriated. Bold all of the clips you used in your text document.The work must include three distinct sections, chapters, or movements.

3) Create a folder with your final audio work .aup, your final mixdown, your text file, and library of 30 labeled sounds. Back up onto a thumb drive or hard drive.

4) Bring your computers to class next week. We will finish processing your FINAL .aup mixdown files at the beginning of class.You will transfer all of your files to your instructor in class next week.

SOUND/VOICE EXAMPLES
Rhythm
Steven Reich, Clapping Music

Narrative
Kathy High, Hospital Visit

Space
Quiet American, One minute vacations
Ultrared, Transistors
Janet Cardiff, Walks (Louisiana, Alter Banhof)

Some Other Examples
John Cage, Radio Music, performed by ICE
William S. Burroughs, Tape Cut Up and Calling All Reactive Agents
Stephen Vitiello, Tetrasomia

Ultra Red The Public Record: http://www.publicrec.org/directory.html
UBUWEB mp3 archive: http://www.ubu.com/sound/
((audience)): http://au.dience.org/

The Books, Take Time
Prefuse 73, Pagina Dos

Artist Presentations

TRM 153: Studio Concepts

Artist Presentations

Due: November 14, 2013

Each member of class will be conducting independent research on a selected or assigned artist or filmmaker. You will present this research to the class on Thursday November 14, 2013. Presentations should be between 7-10 minutes long. You may choose to write out your presentation or not, but you are required to turn in an outline and a bibliography at the time of your presentation. Please bring a hard copy for your instructor. For reference, it takes around 5 minutes to read one page of single spaced text at a slow pace. Be sure to practice.

Each presentation and outline must include:

Short biography of artist
Historical/social/political context of where and when your artist lived and made work
Major themes your artist addresses
The conceptual, technical, political, or other impact you think your artist had on their chosen media and/or society
An analysis of one work* or body of work* that you find reflects (3) and (4).

For photographic work: Choose 3-5 images from a series to analyze for the class.

For video/film/sound work: Select a 2-3 minute clip to view in class and analyze.

*These cannot be clips or images viewed in class.

Your bibliography must include at least 3 sources, cited MLA style:

A book OR academic article accessed via JSTOR (or similar)
Full Citation of the work you presented (this counts as one). Make sure to include the Title, date, and original media of the work. Also include where and how you accessed the work (DVD? Book? Slides? ArtStor? Ubuweb?).
Reputable Internet Sources (They count as one, but include all. Wikipedia does not count: any information you find here MUST be cited from a second, reputable source.)

Assignments:

Mike	Stanley Kubrick
Melanie	Cindy Sherman
Jonny	Bill Viola
Sydney	Carrie Mae Weems
Gordon	Alfred Hitchcock
Christina	Alfonso Cuaron
Chris	Alexander Sakurov
Andrew C	Bruce Nauman
Andrew S	John Cage
JJ	Lars Von Trier
Eliana	Danny Elfman
Laura	Sophie Calle
Kevin	Quay Brothers
Drew	John Baldessari

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Upload Test from jessica posner on Vimeo.

Embedding Vimeo Videos Into Blogger

1. Export file from Adobe Premiere Pro to Vimeo Specs: H.264, choose appropriate Vimeo Preset

2. Sign Up: https://vimeo.com/ (You will only need to do this once. After this, you will just log in).

3. Upload your Video. Follow the prompts and wait.

4. Once upload is complete, go into settings. Under "Privacy," make your video available to be embedded.

5. Once your video loads, click on the "share" icon in the upper right hand corner of your video.

6. This window will pop up. Select and copy (command + c) the "Embed" code.

6. Begin a new post on blogger.

7. Select the "HTML" tab in the top left corner of the composer. Paste your code here.

8. Publish. CONGRATULATIONS!

CRITIQUE 2 TWIST: MONTAGE

REPRESENTATION/VIDEO/NARRATIVE
MONTAGE (WEEK 8, October 17)

ASSIGNMENT:

CRITIQUE 2 TWIST:

Include a montage in your CRITIQUE 2 video, due next week October 24.

The montage must:

reveal a complicating piece of information about your main character
include new footage (can be original or appropriated)
be at least 15 seconds*
use an instrumental, original, or experimental soundtrack (if any). This is not a music video.

*Your video must still be within 3-5 minutes. You must also still meet all of the requirements on the first assignment sheet, though they may overlap. Be bold in your decisions.

MONTAGE RESOURCES

Hitchcock on Montage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoPT9JeYHA

SOVIET MONTAGE

A Dialectical Approach to Filmmaking

Metric: Measured number of frames, regardless of action in shot (mechanical):

example: Scene from Eisenstein's October

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EditingIllustrations02.htm

Rythmic: cutting for continuity (aesthetic, narrative)

example: Eisenstein's Odessa Steps Sequence, Battleship Potemkin, 1925

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec

Tonal: taps into the emotional quality of the shots to create a complex emotional landscape

Overtonal/Associational: combination of all of the above, moving towards abstraction to illicit emotional reactions

example: from Pudovkin's Mother, 1926

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EditingIllustrations05.htm

Intellectual: when shots combined, viewer forms intellectual meaning

example: Eisenstein, Strike, 1925

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EditingIllustrations06StrikeBig.htm

Apocalypse Now,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWtc01BlqM

SURREALIST MONTAGE

Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927

Maria's dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0D4fHieW8o

Moloch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNaaogT8fs

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali,Un Chien Andalou, 1929,

https://vimeo.com/18540575

Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S03Aw5HULU

Vera Chytilova, Daisies (Sedmikrásky), 1966

https://vimeo.com/63689570

Opening Credits, 53:30, 60:00, 65:00

ART VIDEO

Tracey Moffatt, OTHER, 2009

Dara Birnbaum, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION WONDER WOMAN, 1978-79

Bill Viola, Anthem, 1983

POP CULTURE

Team America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9Uwhjlog8&feature=youtu.be

Forrest Gump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgnJ8GpsBG8

Ferris Beuler's Day Off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpRcZNJAnE

Snatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mezD2j-R2Y

Footloose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8XGmZ8HDIU

Trainspotting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf_WiEb9Qs

Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHMD_EqM61I

Clueless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQPpD4EN00

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Critique 2 Project: Due October 24, 2013

CRITIQUE 2: DUE OCTOBER 24, 2013

REPRESENTATION/VIDEO/NARRATIVE

A fictional, narrative video 3-5 minutes in length. Must be fictional, but based in a reality you have experienced. Be creative, but grounded. (Some examples of scenarios that are probably not be grounded in your reality: drug busts gone wrong, armageddon, attacks by zombies and/or bears, alien abductions/surgeries, etc. Some examples that might be: making a difficult decision, a turning point in a elationship, receiving an unexpected message, getting lost, subtle supernatural experiences, etc.). As with all narratives, you must include at least one main character, and an inciting incident that marks a clear change in your character. Establish a clear beginning, middle, and end.

For your critique on October 24: You must edit your video in Adobe Premiere, export it, upload it to Vimeo, and embed the vimeo video on your blog.

Your videos must include the following components, and they can overlap:

1) A single shot sequence of at least 30 seconds.

2) A continuous action sequence. Minimum: 3 shots edited together to form continuous action. Example: Imagine three different potential shots of a car pulling out of a driveway. You might include (1) an establishing, exterior shot of the car in garage while the driver enters (2) close up of the driver inserting keys and starting ignition, (3) an over the shoulder shot of the driver backing up, and (4) a panning, wide shot of the car backing away from the perspective of someone standing at the front door of the house.

3) An establishing shot followed by a medium shot and/or a close up

4) A close up of your main character

5) An over the shoulder shot of or over your main character

6) A static (tripod) shot

7) A dynamic (handheld, steadycam, pan, tilt) shot

8) Titles

9) Use Diagetic sound. NO MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS (unless it is diagetic).

10) Apply Room Tone layer for all audio

For Next week (October 17): bring a rough cut of your video to class.

This means:

You must have all of your footage shot
You have imported everything into Premiere Pro
You have structured your timeline
You have titles including your name, any working title, “rough cut,” the date, and duration
Exported your video using vimeo settings with a file name that includes “rough cut” and date

We will screen your in-progress videos in class and offer feedback. You will be expected to include the feedback in your “final” video for the following week. Time allowing, we will work in class.

Your final, completed videos are due at the beginning of class on October 22, 2013. They must be finished, uploaded to vimeo, and embedded on your blog. This will take time, so you must plan ahead and not wait until the last minute.

You will be evaluated based on exemplary/satisfactory/unsatisfactory use of everything in this document in bold.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Class on Oct. 3

Dear Class,

As a reminder, I will not be in class tomorrow due to a performance in New York. However, class is still on, and attendance will be taken.

Joanna Spitzner, who is an artist and teaches Time Arts (among other things) in the Foundations department in VPA, is planning an awesome sound/radio workshop for you. I'm jealous that I won't be there to participate!

Additionally, you will be looking at a bunch of examples of single shot films and videos. All of these will be hyperlinked on the blog if you want to revisit them or spend more time with them. The examples include early cinema, video and performance art, experimental film, advertising, and narrative movies. You will use these as inspiration and grounding for your homework. Please pay attention to the characters, inciting incidents (something that happens that causes narrative action to happen), and the sequencing of events in each of these examples.

For your homework, you are responsible for shooting your own 1-3 minute single shot videos. These are due NEXT WEEK. Please see below post, or the REPRESENTATION page, for instructions and more details.

NEXT WEEK IN CLASS WE WILL:

1) Finish Critiquing those that didn't go last week

2) Look at your Single shot videos

3) Have in-class workshop with Adobe Premiere and your footage (bring your files, memory cards, and laptops with Adobe Premiere installed)

4) Talk about sequencing, narrative, and editing

If you need to reach me, email is best (however, expect a delayed response). Because I won't be having office hours tomorrow, I am available on Monday if anybody would like to schedule a time to come in and chat. Please let me know

Enjoy your week!

Best,

Jessica

The Single Shot

REPRESENTATION: WEEK 1

The Single Shot

Homework due NEXT WEEK (October 10):

Shoot a 1-3 minute, single shot video. Your video must include at least one character and an inciting incident. You must be prepared to talk about what/who this character is, and how the inciting incident relates. These can be as simple or as complicated as you'd like, but it must be thoughtful and well planned.

Your video can be a static shot, or you may experiment with handheld/steady cam style videography. Please only use diagetic sound (only audio that is shot in the camera). You may use whatever camera you would like: cell phone, webcam, cannon camcorder from the cage, etc.

This assignment is more daunting than it sounds, as you are responsible for developing a character, a narrative, and planning out an entirely in-camera sequence. You must think ahead, plan it out, and take multiple takes. Please come to class with your preparatory notes, sketches, and at least 3 takes. The purpose of this assignment is to challenge you to both experiment and simplify.

For next week: Bring your files (all of them!) any memory cards you used to shoot, and your laptops with Adobe Premier. We will process these files, together, in Adobe Premiere during class. Please be sure to bring your laptops with Adobe Premiere, and all of your files, next week in class.

Next week we will also talk more specifically about the Cannon you will be required to use for your next assignment, as well as other video basics.

SCREENINGS:

Edison Kinetescope FIlms (1894-189^)

Barber Shop, Feeding the Pigeons, Seminary Girls

Lumiere Brothers, Exiting A Factory, 1895

Lumiere Brothers, L'Arroseur Arrosé, 1895

Alice Guy Blache, Cabbage Fairy, 1896 (0:51)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbQO6pwuNs

Georges Melies, The Vanishing Lady, 1896 (1:11)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-x93QagJU

Georges Melies, After the Ball, 1897 (1:06)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYYdTAuGm34