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Reflective Chart items
This is one of the reflective scale lists produced in the classes. The reflective scales are part of the documentation package for the final film.
- shoot video
- edit video
- transcode video to H.264
- organise files and assets
- make thumbnails
- put them into Korsakow
- adding keywords and SNU editing
- interface design
- exporting/previewing/sketching
- reading
- finding references
- drafting/planning
- writing
- editing
- compiling a bibliography
The Bonus On Offer
This is a check list of what you need to get the bonus’ on offer for the final project:
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION BONUS CHECKLIST
All of these must be included, on paper, to receive the documentation bonus.
- minutes of weekly meetings have been included
- minutes include who there, dot points about key things discussed, and list of actions: what to be done, and who is doing them
- the individual graphs of your strengths and weaknesses for Korsakow is included
- the project Gantt chart is included
PROTOTYPE PRESENTATION BONUS
- presentation of a prototype for feedback
- second presentation of work in progress for feedback which has changed in response to the feedback received at the first presentation
Uploading your Final K-Film
Remember for your first, individual, K-films you used a FTP program to upload them to themediastudents.net web server? For the final projects you do the same thing, but the location is slightly different. When you log in to the server using FTP please go to the im1 folder, and inside that open the projects folder (not the 2014 folder you used for your individual projects). This is where your projects go.
- create a folder for your project
- the folder name should be lower case, contain no spaces, or punctuation
- inside this folder place the index.html and data folder for your Korsakow project
- if you put it here the url to your work will be http://themediastudents.net/im1/projects/thefoldername
Project Documentation
To get the 5% bonus for project documentation you need to submit (on dead tree, aka paper):
- minutes of project team meetings
- gantt chart for film and essay
- strength and weakness graphs for each team member
- a brief outline of how you used the graph to inform who was doing what in the project
Constraint 05
Relations. A film image by itself says a lot, but in many other ways it is quite mute. That Vine clip of a coffee cup, playing as it does with the autofocus and autoexposure of the iPhone’s camera, shows a particular cup and saucer and spoon with particular qualities. It is all description (notice the texture, hue, and light on the surface of the saucer, it’s tone, shape and the shadow). But it doesn’t ‘say’ much – it isn’t really yet narrating anything, it’s simply a coffee cup, saucer, and spoon. Add a title, and make that a part of the work (in this case “glow to orange”) and things change a bit. Now the title orientates the short clip with a little bit of direction and focus, it seems to be about simply the arrival of this particular orange, its intensity and appearing is perhaps more important than what it is, suggesting a certain sort of abstract relation to the thing, and the film. Perhaps it’s more poem than story?
Take that brief shot of a cup, saucer and spoon and if you placed it in relation to other shots, then things change dramatically. Surround it with other cups and I have a work, that at a minimum, I might take to be about cups. Or surround it with other things ‘appearing’ as brief intensities of colour, and I’m perhaps got a film that is thinking about colour (perhaps in the spirit of the Delauney’s.
Relations between therefore carry great force to change what we understand the shot to be about.
This week’s theme begins to consider what sorts of relations there might be between other things, and how these might be filmed. These tasks invite poetic interpretation and an effort to think from something else’s point of view.
- make a six to ten second clip that is about someone else, not from your immediate family – and film them in a way that describes who you think they are, without filming their face
- make a six to ten second clip that describes an object from the point of view of an animal in your home
- make a six to ten second clip that describes either air, sky, water, or earth, from the point of view of a plant
- in each clip you should only show the parts of things, not wholes
Technical
- each clip should be six to ten seconds in length (if you use Vine they will be six)
- editing can be done in camera, or after
- the video needs to be published into your blog (you can use vimeo, blip.tv, or embed them yourselves)
- there should be one video clip per blog post
- the source media needs to be available as H.264 video
Film Essay
Apologies for any confusion as I’ve just looked at various documents and things are confusing. The film essay that is due shortly, the outline is located here, the actual description via a Google document, and you can submit it via a google form.
Constraint 04
Relations. Literal ones this time. Things gain meaning for us because we place them in relation with each other, via us. When we do this what the thing is in itself becomes almost secondary to the ‘force’ of the relation. For example that bench out my window is a seat which has a particular relation to my body. When I sit on it I am aware that it is timber, made from a log, but it’s ‘woodenness’ or ‘timberness’ is not really what matters to me about the bench so much as its ‘benchness’. What it is in itself (wood, grain, cellulose, once a tree trunk, something living, food for termites and other insects) is reduced because it is placed and so understood in relations by and via me (my bench, a rustic bench, furniture, garden decoration).
The tasks this week invite you to think about yourself in regards to relations. What relations form you?
- make a six to ten second clip that is about your immediate family (your immediate relations) – however, you cannot show anyone’s face
- make a six to ten second clip that shows objects or things that you have that define you
- make a six to ten second clip that shows a parts of a place or places that define you
- in each clip you should only show the parts of things, not wholes
Technical
- each clip should be six to ten seconds in length (if you use Vine they will be six)
- editing can be done in camera, or after
- the video needs to be published into your blog (you can use vimeo, blip.tv, or embed them yourselves)
- there should be one video clip per blog post
- the source media needs to be available as H.264 video
Constraint 03
Relations, relations. They’re like family, you don’t get to choose them.
The theme of the semester is ‘relation’, as in relations and the relational. The first constrained task, which really consisted of two constrained tasks, square and round is primarily about composition and so is shape as a relation.
The second task, was light. Video and cinema is, at heart, about a relation to light (of a chemical surface that responds to light, or a CCD that is also built to respond to light).
The third task is about speed. What relations of speed are available available?
Speed
NOTE: for all of these the camera should be static.
- Make one six to ten second clip that is a single take about something slow
- Make one six to ten second clip that is is several shots about something slow
- Make one six to ten second clip that is a single take about something fast
- Make one six to ten second clip that is several shots about something fast
Technical
- each clip should be six to ten seconds in length (if you use Vine they will be six)
- editing can be done in camera, or after
- the video needs to be published into your blog (you can use vimeo, blip.tv, or embed them yourselves)
- there should be one video clip per blog post
- the source media needs to be available as H.264 video
Things to consider
A cliche is fast cutting = speed and slow cutting = slow. But can they be mixed? Why? Why not?
Quite a few people haven’t filled out the form that lets us find your blogs, please do this asap, the form is linked from the post about the first class. It’s also a worry about how illiterate about URL’s many of you are. Several of the URLs provided are to the class blog (which isn’t your blog), to an individual post within your blog, to the edit screen of an individual post in your blog. The URL of your blog is the top level URL to the default home screen of your blog, so it is usually http://www.mediafactory.org.au/firstname-lastname. Perhaps a few minutes explaining the structure of a URL is in order, not understanding the architecture of domain names and pathways is a bit like not realising that you put a +61 to call an Australian phone number from outside the country. Not going to change the world, but you’re going to be a bit of a Paris Hilton not knowing it.
If you’re name doesn’t appear in the blogroll for the integrated blog, then I don’t have a record of your name and blog. The form, as said, is from the post for the first class.
Constraint 02
The theme of the semester is ‘relation’, as in relations and the relational. The first constrained task, which really consisted of two constrained tasks, square and round is primarily about composition and so is shape as a relation.
The second task, for making during the second week of semester, is light. This is about the relation of light in the image (for the image is, intrinsically and deeply, only about light), and light to itself (shadow).
Theme
- Make one six to ten second clip that is about light
- Make one six to ten second clip that is about not light
- Make one six to ten second clip that is about shadow
Technical
- each clip should be six to ten seconds in length (if you use Vine they will be six)
- editing can be done in camera, or after, or not at all
- the video needs to be published into your blog (you can use vimeo, blip.tv, or embed them yourselves)
- there should be one video clip per blog post
- the source media needs to be available as H.264 video
Things to consider
Should things be the same shot scale (size in frame)? Why? If they vary, why? Are they everyday things or things that have some significance to you? Perhaps one film is personal stuff, another the kitchen? (And yes, this is an exercise in noticing.)
Class 1
Welcome, bonjour, velkommen. New year, new semester, new subject. Some same old same old stuff.
By the end of this class you will need to have:
- Completed the blog form so we know who you are and which blog is yours
- Be familiar with the first constrained video task
- Be familiar with what you need to read for next week
- Have completed your participation contract
Constraint 01
This is a constrained video brief. This means you do it as described.
Theme
- Shoot three x six second clips (so three different movies) using round things in your house.
- Shoot three x six second clips (so three different movies) using square things in your house.
Technical
- each clip should be six to ten seconds in length (if you use Vine they will be six)
- editing can be done in camera, or after, or not at all
- the video needs to be published into your blog (you can use vimeo, blip.tv, or embed them yourselves)
- there should be one video clip per blog post
- the source media needs to be available as H.264 video
Things to consider
Should things be the same shot scale (size in frame)? Why? If they vary, why? Are they everyday things or things that have some significance to you? Perhaps one film is personal stuff, another the kitchen? (And yes, this is an exercise in noticing.)