Time Based Composing class 2

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critique and self assessment

Idea generation: Exquisite Corpse experiments

*Find ExCorp.psd in Classfolders/TBC/pub

*Hide all but top third

*Draw into empty layer

*Hide top third and expose middle third

*Rotate to a new computer

*Draw into middle third

*Hide all but bottom third

*Rotate to a new computer

*Draw into bottom third

*Expose entire image and move through room to look

The surrealists and dreams

• the non linear logic of dreams irrational juxtaposition
• When ideas collide
• Screening: Un Chien Andalou (1929, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel)
• Based on an exchange of dreams between Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, this jolting tale of desire opens innocently with the words 'Once Upon A Time.' What follows is one of the most notorious sequences in film history - a razor severing an eyeball.
• Magritte
• Joseph Cornell [1]
• Surrealist technique of irrational juxtaposition and the evocation of nostalgia
• Collage
• Picasso and collage – collision of forms of representation
• Political collage –
• John Heartfield [2]

• Screening: Unexpected Perspectives, Scott Dickey, from Ringling School of Art and Design, interesting use of screen space (compartments): [3]

Project 1 - Fragments and Dreams

Due: 10/2

Create a 30 sec. (minimum) to one minute (max) composition in which you consider the power of association among images which are seemingly unrelated. These may be images of your own making (drawn, photographed) or ones which you use from some other source. If not your own, your source(s) must be cited, and you must have the rights to the image. (IE, either purchase the rights, find copyright-free or limited rights images, or images from the public domain).

Consider carefully how you use the screen. Find ways to use portions of the screen meaningfully – try to use some subset of the screen for at least part of the 30 (or more) seconds.

Storyboarding

• Storyboarding http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/storybd/
• Storyboard form: http://iam.colum.edu/MTD2/assignments/class4/SBx4.pdf
• Storyboarding was started by Walt Disney and other animators in the 1930's as a way of
• conceptualizing the flow of a story.
• The story board serves several purposes
• capture decisions about the flow of a movie
• serves as a means to communicate these decisions to various parties involved in pre-production
• a set of instructions to production crew such a director, camera operators, animators

• The storyboard helps you to:
• Conceptualize a story
• Plan your scenes
• Quickly sketch out your shots
• Analyze your shots

• In class exercise: Create a storyboard that describes the keyframes of your countdown filmclip.

After Effects

*After Effects Review: Transform functions: Rotate, Translate, Scale

• More about AE
• In class exercise:

• Scaling in one dimension to create a sense of depth
• Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z space)
• Opacity
• Anchor points
• Movement along a path
• Splines – linear, bezier, etc.
• Graphical view of timeline
• Nesting compositions
• Moving keyframes to change timing of events

Step by step description of process

Homework

• Post 2 (or more) images to Flickr and create a creative commons (some rights reserved) or copyright (all rights reserved) on them.
• Post a link to your Flickr page on your TBC page.
• Flickr: [4]
• Creative Commons (some or no rights reserved) [5] [6]

• In the "comments" area, talk about why you are choosing this set of limitations for this particular image.
• If you already have a Flickr account, create a TBC batch. Post a link to your Flickr page on your TBC page.

• Assignment 2: For next week, find and edit a minimum of 5 images, (copyright free), in Photoshop that work as a beginning idea for your own version of a Cornell box and post to your site.

• In addition, bring in to class (on paper) or post a link on your TBC page to "something" that you consider makes interesting use of space and be ready to talk briefly about why you chose it.