final projects

Kelsey Olson- starts out too dark. but then explodes with light and fire. then babydoll with weird feathers and Indian clothing. song loop gotten from archive and edited in audacity. seems like ritual created baby and woman is the guardian. woman seems otherworldly because of filters and effects but baby is not filtered at all. inspired by legend. of eternal one that cannot die.

Nicole- monitors used for distancing because imagry is painful. tied up to draw parrallel to used of technology. dont want to leave it because u love it even though it makes u mad. music is sad and ties into it

joel- collection of pop videos. played together without much time to get into video to show the pointlessness. no real meaning so played to fast to notice

olga- added creepyness because of child and imagery. little girl sees herself in mirror different than woman would

william- shot as if was his life. actually happening. snap shots to show monotiny? sexuality added

leslie- video piece- left friends alone in front of mirror. made faces and such

mpeg 2 with 90 mins and an aiff converter

DVD STUDIO PRO

dvd studio pro- mode-advanced mode. ntsc mode. sd dvd not hd.

assets bottom left. visual top left.

drag and drop into folder or use import. new folder- "dvd thing" move all video to folder. import. click and drag wav. files.

open menue. control click. drag video to tracks. add new tracks and put in video.

if is in wrong format- use compressor. search for mpeg 2 format, click and drag up to video. hit submit

put audio on. put image on back drop. bring in still image. 720 x 480 then import and lay ontop of track

menu- double click. go to shapes. simple button, drag button onto menu and makes little screen. uncheck motion. drag video to box. in shapes can use text. NAME, TIME BASED MEDIA, TERM.

make links. click track, endjump, menu. links to menue. click track, endjump, menu connects track to menu. needs double sided arrow menu connects track and track connects menu.

colors, selected-lights where choice is

when done. hit build, select project folder. when compressed hit burn

drag and drop image to make background on menu

joel presentation

Joel- Dan Graham- performer/audience/mirror- describes in detail what he is doing. then when is turned facing mirror begins to only describe the audience's movements. deals with people's self consciousness. go to performance and dont expect to be watched or part of a piece. people put on different fronts . Floor insists movement and fidgeting . their movement is incorporated into piece. long enough so attention is still held but they are still restless. eye contact! shot in black and white to keep focus on concept. only uses natural sounds.

presentations. Olga/Gabby

Olga- Francis Alys- when faith moves mountains- took place in Lima. took over two years to put together. filmed as documentary. whole town moved sand dune several meters by working together.video is art but what shot is. so doesnt alter or edit footage. meaning of group of people moving mountain. uses shots of the slums and poor areas. poor because civil war refugees. helicopter scene made whole thing seem pointless. like machine can do what man can do but better. pity isnt the point.

Gabby- Francis Alys- work similar to fluxus. paradox in practice- pushes ice through streets of mexico city. slowly melts away. making something leads to nothing. attitude change to noncaring. Pointless task. cuts into 5 min. diagetic sound. Existentialism?? most of works are humorous. no one seemed to notice him or care. trail of moisture evaporates so wats the point?

download youtube video

Firefox- download, FULL HD. NO FLV, MP4 is ok. right hand under screen. 1 click youtube download (program)

whitebalance- registers what white is on camera

Reading

There are many ways to express a narative. you can use multiple images to create a sequence and a scene. storytelling is very important because they supply information . Beats, scenes and sequences are the same things that moviemakers use in their films. who the story belongs too is also very important. Style can affect the communication of ideas. Cause and effect is also a key tool in narratives. commercials can use cause and effect or multiple images to communicate ideas, using either straight info, comedy, realism, rationality or emotional appeals.

What was most interesting to me were the devices used to express a story. The multiple images and the cause and effect were seemed like the most important aspects of the chapter. I really want to know more about those aspects, how they are used effectively and techniques, and even more storytelling devices that weren't mentioned. it also talked about close ups and balancing the opening and ending with the citizen kane example and i would like to know more about those techniques. Most of the chapter seemed like filler, but Kane and the commercial examples were interesting. Why didnt they just have more of that?

final project

need data dvd of all files. and playable dvd with menue

ritual and transfigured time. 5-6 minutes, must deal with time and ritual

begining to think about waiting in line as a ritual. set up where camera is held by someone waiting in the line so viewer is brought into the piece.

Melissa- Gary Hill- around and about. text and repetiton to emphasis. consistency in words. allows audience to put themselves into piece because actual space is never shown. uses images that were around him at the time. everyday images.

audacity

project, import audio. arrow down to change set rate. split tracks, hit arrow down and split stereo track. gain is volume and change one to left and one to right( adjust pan) . keypoint (looks like hour glass) can use for suble adjustments.

effects- fade in fade out. echo (good delay is .5 sec)

change speed

high pass and low pass filter- makes sound old timey

compressor

when sound changes it becomes a moment. seperate instances is what seperates this from western music. randomness in limits. i moment is the informal unit without direction and they tend to be the longest. structure of western music and notes represent sound but stockhuasen uses like language and composes. he makes his own notes.

3/24/10

leslie- william wegman- treat bottle. uses suspense to draw in audience. setting is bare. starts out with jar in center, it is most important. puts in jar so we know he's standing there watching the dog. passage of time is in real time, there is no editing. shot in studio, goes back to painting degree.

kirsten- joe wright- pride and prejudice. uses all natural sunlight and sounds, no editing.

The Stockhausen reading was all about moments in music. when a note is played and then stoped that is a moment. or when two things are plaed at the same time that makes 2 moments. i'm not too clear on that one though cause it seems like it would be only one moment. but there are different kinds of moment, k moment I momenrs m moments and d moments. d moments are long because they are durations, its the whole momen. m is melody and it mentioned heterophony which is many sounds. k is everything, I is directionless.
i couold understand the aspects of varied and overlapping sound because we had done that in the fragmentted sound project but most of what the reading was about went over my head. m and k moments are ok but duration i dont really get, is it just how long one moment lasts? or is it all moments until its done? i moments seem to make sense too, just static and random sounds.. i think. but anyway the m and k i liked reading about because of the heterophony. for the fragment project we used all those sounds and i really liked it. i wanna know more about those aspects. i think i and d go with it all too but d seems more metaphorical than actual sound where as m, k, and i are actual sounds

Emily sneeden- sped up voice in right musical moments. very rythmic and musical but not as if its boring. stays fresh even though its repeating. 2nd piece has building up. slow loudness like approaching doom. mix of classical and urban.

Ryan- very phantom of the opera, 2nd is very musical without having music. repeats and placement is good. it gets shorter and shorter and so sounds create pace.

Joel- used music almost exsclusively. one phrase from celine deion song. twilight zone. start out with recognizable piece. pushes chaos and annoyance.

kelsey olsen- old fashioned radio commercial is nice touch. languages add another level. very humorous.

leslie- very humorous catch line but could do more with it. world ending could have been played into it. 2nd mostly sound affects to imagine beach. waves crashing. but is rainstorm in car.

nicole- seems like satire on society. twitter. 2nd sounds like book on tape but with building chaos chorus. could had more tweeting, that was good idea. different kinds and sounds of tweets.

Kristen- music for the first one but looped in a way that u wouldnt notice. the song chosen is the kind of song that repeats alot. 2nd. HAWAII music and dripping water. ucalaylee.

katie- looped opera. 2nd was great. german recording of full opera. 2nd beats only larinx and throat go play on idea of utilitarionism.

Gabby- betty boop song was fantastic. 2nd was very solemn and ominous.

sarah- use of music and spanish. 2nd, very techno-y and futuristic, almost like chase music. 1st play on her dreams about home. heart beat added to be calming and upsetting.

wav is for mac. open folder for downloads. save as source, import to audacity. Project, import audio. high light with curser then hit command c and then command v and paste to new track. generate silence, 30 sec then wont default to left. project remove track and first track is deleted. file and save to folder as wav. 44100 hrtz. press shift and move up to select multiple tracks

FRagmented sound project

sound art. reconstructing found sound. 2 loops between 1 and 2 mins long. create desktop folder where can store sounds, import into audacity and work with them. stereo sound- hear it around and not just on one side. mono- one side.

Christian Marclay- uses sounds people dont like to hear

steve reich- its gonna rain- phrase "its gonna rain" over and over

carlheinz stockhausen- helicopter string quartet. hymnem (chaos and order)

henry chopin- throat power

Presentations. 3/15/10

Anthony- Errol Morris- Documentary series called first person. one analyzed is about Antonio Mendez master of disguise called The Little Gray Man. used technique where put camera right in subjects face so it looks like he's talking to the viewer. created devise that let subject and filmer see each other during interview called inter-atron. Going with title, background is completely gray and he is wearing all black to make nothing stand out, he is little gray man because nothing is very noticeable. supposed to be in first person but there are many shots that contradict that. side shots, off center shots, pulled out shots. dates are kept ambiguous except for laos 1971. so nothing to nail this man down with because is all ambiguous and open. (more gray man). Mendez is constant source of information, like spies he is the source.

Kelsey- Pierre Huyghe- No Moment- video where nothing happens. Room and music do not go together. Lights are indicator of time, gets slowly darker. rule of 3rds, lamp chair and let other lamp. banister seperates viewer from room. curtains move. action on tv moves very fast. moment occurres when viewer realizes there is no moment. allegory for irony and how americans watch tv. everything in room is old but music is new.

first group- emily sneeden, kt stemper, kirsten anderson- all very humorous. mouth olympics very funny. took same subject but all used very different stylistic takes on it. mouth olympics was good but 3rd sequence not as strong. play on peoples fascination with olympics. parody of winter games. speak easy to satirize the people outside turlington. when drunk u cant even communicate so how is it a social lubricant? people not talking to each other but at each other. if only see someones lips moving could they say whatever they wanted? all only girls lips to show how men never hear what girls are saying, they only see their lips. works in how video is loud and then quiets down only to get very loud again at the end.

group 2- melissa, kelsey, anthony- music change didnt signify a change in action. questions of where we sleep. what is shelter? gueinne pig dreams thing confusing. shelter one works bc of trying different locations and none work. work loses a lot with the beer pong. more about what leads to sleep. kelsey recorded what was happening while it was going on. sounds could be guinnie pig or sleeping person. repeated a lot. going for mindset of 10 year old who doesnt want to sleep in his bed. ending in bed would have added more closure.

group 4- gabby, olga, joel-lighting was main issue for all 3 videos. clock was issue and so was the time span. olga's was amazing.

group5- ryan, sara, william- very hard to follow, needed titles or the event scores to clarify. all seem to be about nothing. very hard to watch but in a good way. watching sara watch nothing was very cool. great concept. nothing can be nothing cause you're actually doing something.

Dvd studio pro. simple button (right hand corner) put video files in box on lower left. dvd with menu and dvd track. add menu. right click it and hit first play. click video in box and drag to track in upper left. go to shapes and drag over simple button onto menu. unclick motion and set video. center is the button, click on center. go to colors to adjust the menu. set target for button. see on box that menu connects to the track. choose Track, endjump, menu. remote control, make menu button go back to menu. double click on menu and can write in name

in imovie. drag thumbnails and then hit share, export movie. h.264