DEFINING THE POSSIBILITIES: A 12 Frame Obstruction

DEFINING THE POSSIBILITIES: A 12 Frame Obstruction 

ASSIGNMENT ONE (100 POINTS) Due May 21st.

There are three steps you must follow when developing you concept for you piece:

1. Define the possibilities of an object or a moment in time.

2. Define them further. 

3. Repeat these steps until further possibilities are exhausted. 

This should process should work it's way out in one of 3 ways: a script, shot list, storyboard. These texts and or sketches with text need to accompany your post for Monday May 21st. When I am asking you to define the possibilities I am asking you to define the possibilities of a moment in time cinematically via your cinematography (<Can you exhaust the amount of angles one subject or moment in time can be shot/viewed?) and construction of your narrative (Let your imagination lead you to vastness of infinite possibilities.) You can see that in the "A Relative Tonality" as an example of expanding the narrative. Pick a very simple event like opening a door, or running down the street, or eating a meal.

The second part of this is that I am placing a 12 Frame Obstruction upon your edit of your piece. That means you will see at least 2 shots per second. I will demo this in class. You can see an example below with Obstruction #1, an excerpt from the Five Obstructions. VIDEO needs to be 1MIN. Long anything after that is up to you MAX limit 3min.

RHYTHMS of TIME: 3 Point Loop System

RHYTHMS of TIME

THE LOOP THE LOOP THE LOOP THE LOOP THE LOOP

DUE MAY 17TH

This assignment is designed to allow you to experiment with composing various rhythms via the editing process, and to explore the power of looping. Take into consideration the silent exercise we did in class with your objects. With seminally random objects we created narratives and formed understandings for ourselves what was taking place. If we think of it in video tearms it's a montage, which is a series of images that work together to create a cinematic structure (Film Language).  Define/narrow down three different video clips that are three seconds long (maximum). Then start playing with the ordering of these shots. For instance 1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1 or 1,2,3,1,2,3,2,2,3,2,2,3 could be rhythms you build with your 3 clips. Besides experimenting with ordering patterns, also try the patterns with various lengths of each clip like 1(6frames), 2(6frames), 3(6frames), 1(12frames), 2(12frames), 3(12frames) or 1(2frames), 2(2frames), 3(1sec.), 1(2frames), 2(2frames) etc... We will work on exploring this in class, but the final piece (2-3Min.) is due May 17TH. I find that this article is extremely interesting when talking about looping, take a look: { PDF Loop Theory by Brian Evans } Optional reading. 

WEEKLY SCREENING: The Battleship Potemkin

The Battleship Potemkin <Click Here)

This is the first of several screenings of material that you will need 

to view outside of the classroom. Attached below is a worksheet that 

needs to be filled out while watching the movie. The goal of the worksheet

is to start analyzing cinema differently and also to help in the creation of 

your weekly journal whither it be writing or video.

WorkSheet DUE the 22nd -\/\/\/\/-

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11746226/Film%20Anyalsis%20Worksheet.docx

Film historians normally debate whether it was Battleship Potemkin or The Man with a Movie Camera that develop the "true" film language. Thus I really couldn't leave it out, however this is extra. I would strongly recommend it, if you are interested. 

12 5 1 <> THE CINEMATIC MOMENT

Your homework for tonight is to capture one event/narrative structor surrounded around one moment in time or a series of moments that describes an event. For instance walking to school, going to sleep, working out, or getting ready for school like the example above. You are to then develop a 1, 5, and 12 second edit to describe the same event in each time limit given i.e 12, 5, and 1. You need to place one second of black before and after each sequence (series of edits 12, 5, and 1). The ordering of the 12 5 1 is up to you.

DUE Aug. 29th

The Art of the Moving Image

Surrealist Manifesto - Andre Brenton

Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.

Man L'Étoile de mer (English: The Sea Star) 
is a 1928 film directed by Man Ray - Avant-Garde Filmmaker

ONE SECOND NARRATIVE

Your home work tonight is to compose / create one second of video.
What can be seen in one second?
What can be understood in one second?
What kind of story can you tell in one second?

You are to have 2 seconds of black on either side of your one second video. Go out and see if you can capture a moment like a leaf falling, a door being opened, or an eye opening. Challenge yourself to see if you convey a message or story within one second. Once finish within Adobe Premiere go to file>Export>Media and change output to H2.64 and settings to VIMEO HD or SD based on your camera's resolution. You then need to upload your video to VIMEO and then embed it into the blog before tomorrows class. We will screen them tomorrow morning first thing on the blog via Vimeo Embed. Please email me if you have questions. EMAIL: erisouth@iusb.edu 

WHAT IS VIDEO ART?

What do you know about film?

....The moving Image?

When film was first created what did people say it captured?  

1895-1897

What allowed us to step away from this__________/\/\/\ ?

1905

Why do you go to the Cinema or watch Movies/TV?

WAIT WAIT LETS GO BACK for one second...

Lets compare these last two how do they differ?

In this course I will be challenging you not only to learn the technology, but to think creatively, problem solve, and develop ideas through the medium of video.