Week 4 reflection / problems

Another one of my grading criteria is to keep track of problems I’ve had throughout the semester.
(This I should ace, right? No shortage of problems… Har-Har)
Anyway, as a requirement I’ve promised myself that I would create a category (check) for me to organise my problems… If only it were that easy.
So this weeks problem… which, really probably should have been done way back in week one, is “Korsakow, what the…?”
Yep, I’m still confused about this whole … whatever it is. So bare with me as I try to type myself into this utterly confusing program. Why? Because I’m hoping an understanding of the program helps me figure out what we are trying to achieve.
So I know there’s an ‘about’ section on the Korsakow page, but i’m going to start off with wikipedia (gasp!). No, remember Adrian mentioned last semester that wikipedia is the most up to date resource (does that mean it’s always correct? Well no, probably not. But if you search ‘serial killers’ it asks you not to add to the list by killing more people and I just think wikipedia is on the ball).
Anyway, back on track. So it’s a relatively new program – only coming into the world in 2000. “The software can be used to produce documentary, experimental and fictional narrative works and has been integrated into live performance and installation pieces” (Wikipedia, 2013).  And is free for student and personal use, unless you’re doing some big scale project, then you my friend, need some permission.
So the whole intention of this crazy program, “…to create narratives based on dynamic relationships between very short video clips, rather than on predetermined paths” (wikipedia, 2013). Which sounds pretty familiar….
So, after a basic read, I’m switching to the actual Korsakow site.
Haha! My favourite part is that it tells you how to pronounce it (Don’t be fooled kids, apparently the W is a V…).
Anyway, I was a bit let down by this page – not very informative, really just re-capping what I already knew…

“They are rule-based – the author decides on the rules by which the scenes relate to each other, but s/he does not create fixed paths. K-Films are generative – the order of the scenes is calculated while viewing.” (Korsakow, 2014)

However, I did like the tutorials and tips & tricks links. Which I will be using!
There is a video called ‘How to SNUify’. This tutorial video was particularly helpful – especially since I have been having trouble with my ‘in’s and out’s’ keywords.

So following a similar process, I’ve tried doing the same as the video with some of my sketch tasks. To simplify things, i’ve only used two keywords (light and dark), without paying particular attention to what the actual clips are – I just want to see if I can get this all working…
Okay, that was a no-go. The only thing I did differently was that I left my previews as the actual video, where as the tutorial chose to use a jpeg…

Still not able to get it working… luckily I have a class coming up in a few hours…

R E F

– Korsakow. 2014. About Korsakow. [ONLINE] Available at: http://korsakow.org/about/. [Accessed 24 March 14].
– Wikipedia. 2013. Korsakow. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakow. [Accessed 24 March 14].