Broken Screen Film and Blog Update

>Please make sure you have posted response to film from Broken Screen List.
>Update your blog entries if you have not done so.

****Class work is considered incomplete if Blog not up to date.****

Storyboard

A Storyboard is the rough layout of what you will do in the short video. The handout I gave you talks about it a bit. You can draw out (stick figures are fine)on the storyboard frame by frame (roughly) what you will do in the project. So we will talk about your project on Mon., look at your storyboard and Raw (unedited) footage. Let me know if you have other questions.

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Assignment DUE

Assignment: Post Response on Blog:
1. Project Proposal & Storyboard
2. View Film from Broken Screen Lists (handout)

Independent Time Based Project

Objective: The independent video project builds on project development and creative analysis from the last two assignments to generate a unique topic for each student. It may be linked to your “Sources” project or be a new idea.

Project:
Use Time based media to explore your idea. How does this media change/expand or manipulate your notion of Time.

What methods do you use to do this? (transitions, point of view etc.)

Process Requirements: Project Proposal
Individual Meetings
Research (Artist or Film)
Approaches from Aspects and Elements of Time

Final Critique: 2-4 minute video and/or sound project
Artist Statement (min. 1 paragraph)
Schedule:

M April 9
Assignment: Post Response on Blog:
1. Project Proposal & Storyboard
2.View Film from Broken Screen Lists (handout)

M April 16
Assignment: Research Assignment Given by me after Blog Posting
Post Research on Blog
Shoot Raw footage

M April 23
Individual Meetings (go over storyboard and Proposal)
Open Studio: View Raw footage
Pitch Storyboard idea to 2 people –write down responses

Assignment: Shoot raw footage and preliminary editing

M April 30
Process Critiques: This critique is just as important as the final critique.**
WORK IN PROGRESS viewed
Draft of Artist Statement

M May 7
***Last day to hand in outstanding work.***
Final Project Due with Artist Statement

Materials needed: DV Camera Digital Still Camera Hard Drive
Mini Dv tape Other materials determined individually

Missed Class

If you missed class today Monday April 2 contact me for an individual appointment this week.

Office Hours: Wed. 11:00-12:30 and other times if necessary.

Sound Project Due next week.

Sound Files and Final Sequence Project

Monday April 2 Class:

-Critique of Final Version of Source and Sequence project
-Bring 3 Sources of Sound for working studio
-Storage device: Hard Drive or CDs
-Demo of Garage Band

Cancelled Class Monday March 26

Class is cancelled this week. Please post daily sound journal on your blog. And come next week with your sound sources. If you are familiar with Garage band proceed with editing if not bring sound sources for demo next week.

I will be checking blogs for written entry of homework (not actual sound files) this week.


Let me know if you have questions.

Lyssa
lhpaluay@mac.com

Source and Sound

Objective: Identify, Analyze and Create Sound as a method of expression.

Project: You will notice and respond to Sound as it relates to your source. Become aware of the landscape of sound in the same way you approach a painting or a photograph. Where are the subtleties? What are the shapes, values and forms of what you hear? Keep in mind your “Source.” If your Source had a voice what would it sound like? If it had a noise what would you hear?

Technical Skills: Capturing and Editing Sound

Question to ask yourself:
Would this be part of an installation or video or a separate project?

M March 19
Assignment:
-Find 3 Sound Sources for Class next week
-Create Sound recorded on a Mini disc or extracted from Video
*Daily Blog 2 entries (min. 2 paragraphs entry) relating to Sound

M March 26 – Demo of Garage Band and Working Studio
(If you miss this demo it will not be repeated and you will need to make up the work on your own)

*Daily Blog 2 entries (min. 2 paragraphs entry) relating to Sound

Bring to Class:
1. 3 sources of sound- music, voice, environmental sound, constructed sound
-Cds or recorded audio that you will import into Garage Band

(Outside Audio can be recorded on Mini discs checked out at the cage. Mini Disc tape needed. Extra step is needed to convert files to read in Garage Band. See me for more information.)
2. Hard Drive

M April 2-Open Studio for Sound Projects
Individual Meetings

*Daily Blog 2 entries (min. 2 paragraphs entry) relating to Sound

M April 9-DUE: Sound Projects (1-3 minute duration) mp3 format
Introduction of Independent Project

References: Luigi Russolo, Philip Glass, Bill Viola, Water Fahndrich

Source & Sequence

Source &Sequence

Content: Source n 1:the point of a stream of water: fountainhead b (1) : a point of origin (2) : one that initiates (3) one that supplies information (middle French sourse, from sourdre “to rise, spring forth”)

Method: Sequence n 1: a continuous or connected series: as a: an extended series of poems united by a single theme (a sonnet sequence)...e: a succession of scenes developing a single subject or phase of a film story

Medium: photographs, drawings, paintings, or a book

Identify your “Source”. Is there a piece of writing, music, a person, an artist, a time in history, a current event etc. that inspires you to create? What is your relationship to it? What would you want others to know about this source? Specifically how has it inspired you?

>Write a minimum 2 Paragraph Blog response about this “Source” and what it means to you. Due: F March 2 Post on Blog.

>Express these ideas in a project using the method of the “Sequence”. A sequence may be articulated in photographs, paintings, book etc. but are not limited to these methods.
The method of your sequence is to be determined by you. It can range between 5-15 images in your sequence.

M March 12 Due: Present Process (Unfinished Work) Sketches
Sand Mandala Construction-In Class Assignment
Bring examples of your ideas in response to your source. In small group discussions present 5- 8 images relating to source ideas/materials (include in your process notes) and preliminary sequence. (Note taking)

M March 19
Projects Due-Present in class.

Process:
Write> (Your personal response)
Research (library and on-line)> (Artists)
Project Development> (Materials, How to…, testing)
Feedback> (Process Critiques)
Response>
Artist References:
Francesca Woodman, Duane Michals
Sylvia Plachy - Signs & Relic
Kerim Rissin, The Journey is the Destination:
The Journals of Dan Eldon

Excerpt from- Buddha Mind In Contemporary Art
“I wanted to think about the process and constellation of acts-the literal physical acts and the practice-around which work forms. In my earlier works the presence of the hand’s trace or act was transparently present. In more recent works this “hand” has become invisible.
Increasingly a large part of my process of coming “to make” things extends out of the atmosphere of the books that I gather around me. Reading is a part of forming a landscape that allows work to happen, and a part of every project is the process of “finding” the book a project needs. It isn’t something that can happen by intention. Often, like the browse through the open stacks in the library, your eye is drawn to the red book next to the book you were specifically searching for...you open it and there where your eye is arbitrarily drawn is what you need. Searching is a sort of half-intentional and then...not. A process is set in place to allow things to find you.
So the process of making work is first one of waiting. And reading is one of the ways I wait. It is a process of suspending and readying oneself. It is a particular, peculiar balance between one’s need “ to know, “to find”,” to fix”, and one’s awareness that you can’t know, you can only “be”. How to guide this seemingly arbitrary process has something to do with how one trusts and recognizes or discriminates during the process.” -Ann Hamilton

CLASS MONDAY

-OPEN STUDIO LAB
-REVIEW VIDEOS

Bring:
-Mini dv tape with raw footage
-Hard Drive
-Quicktime movies

OBJECTIVE: Use Raw Footage to make a short movie Illustrating Time based Vocabulary from your research.
video may be a recreation of the scene you researched. You may edit the scene 3 different ways.

Part C:
1. Make 3 One Minute Videos in Imovie.
2. Add a Title to Name Vocabulary you are describing
3. Use Transitions.
4. Convert iMovie to a Quicktime File
5. Burn files onto a CD or Save on your Hard Drive


Due: Monday Feb. 26

Blog Posting of Research Regarding Film

Part A.
Post responses to these questions in your blog regarding the film you researched.
***Demonstrate your understanding of the vocabulary terms.***
1. Information about the film: background history, director information etc.
2. Use 5-10 keywords from Vocabulary Handouts to describe the work.
3. What are the methods, style and form they use to relate their ideas?
4. Personal observations.
5. Written response to research post on your blog


Part B.
Post 3 photos from pictures taken for your research.

Artist Talk (one requirement of class)

Rescheduled for Wed. Feb. 21 1-2pm
Brant Gallery South 3rd Floor
Artist/Curator Talk


Walter Crump-Curator of Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography

Boston, MA. ---The Brant Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art is pleased to present Walter Crump, curator of Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography. He will speak inconjunction with the Camera Obscuras that are exhibited currently in the Gallery. As photography becomes ever more high tech and digital, photographers around the globe are turning to the pinhole camera - a lensless, deceptively simple yet surprisingly versatile alternative to mainstream technology. He will show work from the artists in this exhibition from Poland, the site of much exciting contemporary pinhole photography. Their pinhole images range in mood from whimsical, witty, poetic, and mysterious to slyly subversive.

Research Photos

Please post 3 photos on your Blog from your research.
Bring the rest to class on a CD or the camera.

MISSED CLASS

If you missed class on Mon. you need to pick up a reading handout from the Studio Foundation office. They are in a cardboard box Chapter 12-Aspects and Elements of Time right next to the door when you enter the office.

Visual Language II
Lyssa Palu-ay SF 186
Research Presentation Aspects and Elements of Time

OBJECTIVE: View and Analyze Time based Vocabulary and Concepts through Research and a Creative Response.

Part A
Due: M FEB 12

You will be asked to do a short research presentation on a film clip of your choice. Provide a short 3-5 minute clip of the work.

1. Information about the film: background history, director information etc.
2. Use 5-10 keywords from Vocabulary Handouts to describe the work.
3. What are the methods, style and form they use to relate their ideas?
4. Personal observations.
5. Written response to research post on your blog

Your presentation should be no longer than 7 minutes and leave 5 minutes for questions afterwards.


Film: ___________________________________________________________________

Part B
Project: Response to Research

Illustrate aspects and elements of time that you researched:

-10-20 Digital Photographs
-2-3 minute Raw Video Footage

Choose 2-3 Time Based Concepts to Illustrate. The photographs and video response may be in the “style of” of the film and explore different ideas or approach. Or it may be a recreation of how the film describes the concepts you choose.

Materials: Mini DV tape, Digital Camera and Video Camera
Tech skills: Video and Still Camera Capture-hand held, tripod, time of day


TIMELINE:
M FEB 12 -RESEARCH AND RESPONSE TO VOCABULARY
-INTRO. TO IMOVIE, HARD DRIVE

M FEB 19 NO CLASS

M FEB 26 CRITIQUE OF RESEARCH
SOURCE PROJECT INTRODUCED

M MARCH 5 NO CLASS SPRING BREAK

M MARCH 12 SAND MANDALA CONSTRUCTION IN BRANT

Vocabulary

FRAME
SHOT
Close-up
Medium Shot
Long Shot

SCENE
SEQUENCE

RELATONSHIPS
GRAPHIC
SPATIAL
TEMPORAL-CHRONOLOGY
RHYTHMIC

FLASHBACKS
CROSSCUTTING

TRANSITIONS
CUT
FADE
DISSOLVE
LAP DISSOLVE
WIPE
ACTION TO ACTION
SUBJECT TO SUBJECT
SCENE TO SCENE
MOMENT TO MOMENT
NON-SEQUITUR
ASPECT TO ASPECT

DURATION
PLOT
STORY

TEMPO

INTENSITY

SCOPE

SETTING

SOUND
DIEGETIC
DURATION
SPATIAL CONTEXT

Time & Light

Visual Language II
Lyssa Palu-ay SF 186 Aspects and Elements of Time

“Turrell’s work allows us to see ourselves “seeing.” Whether harnessing the light at sunset or transforming the glow of a television set into a fluctuating portal, Turrell’s art places viewers in a realm of pure experience.”

Objective: The Objective of this exercise is to research an ancient model of time keeping and to analyze one’s relationship to time through light. Respond to this work by recreating or inventing a new form of keeping time.

Description: Since pre-historic times humans have tried to find ways to mark and capture time. The movement of the sun, moon and stars were tangible symbols of human’s relationship to time and the landscape around them. In ancient cultures our relationship with time was on a very different plane. People kept time and paid attention to the seasons in a way that slowed Time down.

Project: Post all responses to questions on your blog.

1. Research: An ancient model of keeping time.
-Who were they
-Why did they keep time?
-Did their relationship to time reflect inherent beliefs?
-What did they keep time with?
-Who were the time keepers?

2. Analysis:
A.-Make 3 digital photographs of the same space/landscape/room which will have available light from the outdoors coming into the area
-Photograph this space 3 different times of the day: early morning, mid-day, sunset or evening

B. -Describe the quality of light, objects, space etc. during these different times of the day.
- Describe what is happening in the space during each of these times.
-If a person were blind how would you describe the most interesting time of day to them?

3. Respond to your Research by recreating or inventing a new form of keeping time. Make Drawings/Photographs/Perform the invention to illustrate your response.
Read:
-Handout: May, Susan, Meteorologica, 2003 in: Olafur Eliasson. The Weather project, Tate Modern, London, 2004.
-Visit: James Turrell at the ICA see attached sheet-

Artists to consider:
O lafure Liasson- http://www.olafureliasson.net/publ_text/texts.htmlider
James Turrell - www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/ - 54k
Part 1&2: Due Jan. 29 Part 3 Due: Feb. 5

Syllabus

Visual Language II SF 186 Lyssa Palu-ay
Massachusetts College of Art lhpaluay@hotmailcom 3 credits Spring 2007 617.879.7782
Office Hours: Tues. 2:30-3:30 South 3rd floor

Course Description:
This course introduces and develops concepts and ideas related to time based media. Research methods, vocabulary related to elements and aspects of time, presentation and creative skills will be developed as well independent inquiry into a topic of personal interest. Analysis and development of project ideas is explored through writing, individual and group meetings as well as time management skills. Students will be expected to translate conceptual ideas through the use of the video and digital camera and elements of sound and other methods that express time.

Course Content:
-Time Based Media (Video, Photography & Sound)
-Historical and Cultural Context of time based expression
-Project Development: idea generating, content development, research skills, time management
-Expanding use of technology, media and material
-Building on Concepts from Visual Language I

Course Requirements:
1-Research
a. Historical and Cultural context of time
b. Artist Research-Presentation
c. Vocabulary-Analyzed and Explored-Presentation
2. Project -Response to Research
3- Sources Identified:
a. Sequence Project
b. Sound Project
4-Independent Time Based Project

**Blog-A blog solely designated for this course will document notes, sketches, photos, timelines and progress throughout the semester. Blog will be checked periodically.***

Grading Procedure:
Class Attendance is a crucial part of your final grade. Sign in before every class and if you are late write the time you arrived next to your name. Two absences mean you have attended 85% of the class; three absences are grounds for failure. Excessive lateness or leaving class early are also factors that will affect your grade. If you cannot attend class call or e-mail to let me know. Medical excuses will be required.

Your grade will be determined by class attendance, assignments completed, participation in class, improvement and grasp of materials and ideas presented as well as overall craftsmanship and content of work.

A Pass, No Pass, or Honors grade will be assigned to your completed body of work at the end of the semester. Honors will be given if the work is exceptional consistently throughout the semester (work beyond expectations for every assignment, consistent attendance and class participation). If you receive an incomplete it is up to you to make arrangements to contact me and make up the work or extra work in order to pass the class.


Required Text: Launching The Imagination Chapter 12 Handouts

Studio Foundation Resources:
Computer Labs
Mini Disc Recorders, Microphones
Media cart: computer projector, computer, speakers
Slide projectors, VCR and TV monitor
Tripods
Installation space (limited)

Supplies:
Portable Hard Drive

**Supplies dependant on independent projects.**


The above information is subject to change.