Time Based Composing class 9

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1 TBC week 9
2 What topics will you do for next week (things to demonstrate in After Effects)
3 How (and why) to use Flash Video in your web page
4 Critique of Project #2
5 Discussion of text and image: Asn. #3 due 12/4
6 How text and image function together
7 Can be classified by formal relationship
8 Can be classified by genre

TBC week 9

What topics will you do for next week (things to demonstrate in After Effects)

Alvaro - compositing xxx with live action

Chris - extracting frames from motion footage and processing them

Philip - 3D

Josh - virtual cameras

Stephanie - 3D filter as intro to 3D in AE

Greg -

Tomas -

Patty -

Ben - vector painting

How (and why) to use Flash Video in your web page

At home, you can find these files as a download at: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player

For class, take the files below which include a commented copy with just one sample movie in it rather than a playlist from the tutorial files. You will find them Classfolders/TBC/pub/week8. This will give you a model to manipulate.

Make sure you place the files: flvplayer.html; flvplayer.swf; yourmovie.flv; swfobject.js into your directory.

Open the flvplayer.html document in BBedit

Change the name of the movie and the dimensions, and if you have a .jpg you want to represent the movie while the movie is still, change the slug to its name and dimensions.

Save in your pub/TBC directory with the other files mentioned above (including your .flv movie file).

And voila! A flash video in a web page.

Explanatory note – the sample page contains reference to a javascript included as one of the files given. This is needed to make the browser recognize the flv file.

Critique of Project #2

Discussion of text and image: Asn. #3 due 12/4

Project #3: produce a 2-3 minute work that tells a story. It should be taken from some source you find (or create) in print (published or unpublished). This might be a website, blog, magazine, newspaper, book, letter, etc. Use selections from the text sparingly to accompany images that tell the story visually. You can tell only a portion of a longer story if you choose. The work should include a soundtrack of your creation. Make sure to cite your sources in the credits.

Treatment (1 paragraph explaining only the project you will actually execute) due 11/13

Storyboard due 11/20

Work in progress due 11/27

How text and image function together

Text can:

Explain, Provide context

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/flw/

Provide additional information such as: who, what, when, where, why

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident

subvert the image (Velvet Strike, Anne Marie Schliener)

http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/about.html

conjure sound FX

provide dialogue

http://blogs.indiewire.com/jamesisrael/archives/spiderman3_Page_1.jpg

Can be classified by formal relationship

*Text as caption (Non-diegetic, overlaid or outside of the image)

Examples: lower third ID tags in documentary or news footage

Crawl across the bottom of the frame to announce timely news headlines

Inter-titles in silent film

Eg: Civil War Photographs from the studio of Matthew Brady Several stories told with the same body, posed in different photos http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwpcam/cwcam3c.html

*Text as part of the image (embedded – diagetic)

Tattoos

http://www.curiology.com/images/dave.jpg

http://www.everytattoo.com/angelname.jpg

Religious image/texts

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=011HRL000000647U00004000&largeimage=1#largeimage

http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts/

Posters

http://www.wes-wilson.com/images/brignallimg1.gif

*Text as image

Some paintings

Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1969