Time Based Composing class 9
Contents
- 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 It should be taken from some source you find (or create) in print (published or unpublished).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
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
Religious image/texts
Posters
*Text as image
Some paintings
Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1969
Charles Demuth, I Saw the Number 5 in Gold, 1928
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/429.html
The eye test chart
http://www.tchain.com/otoneurology/practice/dynvisual.html
Micrography
http://www.jhom.com/topics/letters/micrography.html
http://meclinahands.com/default.aspx
Tagging
Can be classified by genre
Political commentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEzPVP6EVRk
Action adventure
Information
http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/www/surface/STM_Gallery/stm_schematic.html http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/www/surface/STM_Gallery/Pb_on_Cu.html
Ownership
http://www.answers.com/topic/herringbone?cat=technology http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/images/ibm.tif
Persuasion
Other examples of integration of text and image:
Titles (closing) of “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, available in CCC library, VIDEO. 791.437 L557 DVD1909
And titles of “The Mummy” (closing)