WEEK 10 HOMEWORK

This week I would like you to research some innovative ways of presenting digital artwork... whether it's on mobile phones or projected on to the side of a building. Find an example and post it to your blog.

CALL OUT TO ARTISTS... that's you guys!

Stop Motion Animations

Check out some of these cool stop motion animations...

Roaming Sweets by Anita Bacic & Natalie Woodlock

19:09 by Alicja Kwade

Ahhh... by Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Davidson by Luis Bezeta

Heaven came from Hell by Oscar Seco

In Meiner Strasse by Heinz Schmöller


Check out the video art world animation page for more!

STOP MOTION ANIMATION: the how to for those on placement weeks 9 & 10

The stop motion animation should be pretty straight forward for you guys now, as it is putting the skills you have already learned over the semester into use. Just follow the steps below:

Taking your photos
You have a couple of options here, depending on your subject matter.

i. Most digital cameras have a "shutter burst" or multi-shot function, where by holding down the shutter button it takes a burst of photos in rapid succession. This is a good option if you are using an animated object (for example a person).

ii. Your other option is to set your camera up on a tripod in front of your inanimate object. Take a photo, move your object slightly, take another photo, move your object slightly... repeat.

Remember, that a moving image is generally 25 frames per second. That's 100 pictures for 4 seconds. Or 1500 for 1 minute! For stop motion, we don't have to adhere to this too closely, as it is the stop part which gives it its character. So you might like to opt for half that, so 12 frames per second, for example.

Editing your images
You can edit your photos in photoshop if you want to, but remember you will need to be consistent, it may look odd if you only edit a couple and not the rest. Save as jpgs.

Putting it altogether
Open Final Cut Pro. First things first, click on Final Cut Pro in the menu bar > User preferences > Editing tab > Still/freeze duration. Change the time for how long you want your individual photos to play for. It is in the format of hh:mm:ss:ff so you will change the frames. If you are working to 12 frames per second for example, it would be 00:00:00:02 or if you want your images to run for half a second each 00:00:00:12




Import all of your photos. File > import > Files. You can select more than one by holding down the shift key. It is a good idea to have them in order already, so that when you start putting them together in your timeline you won't have to search, and you can just simply select them all and drag and drop into your timeline.

Remember you can add effects etc just like you did for your video art.

You may also like to have music, if it is an mp3 or wav you can simply drag and drop the music file into your timeline.

When you have finished you can export as a quicktime. Then you can publish it to DVD using iDVD.

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

WEEK 7

Please also bring with your a DVD-R to burn your video to.

WEDNESDAY 1-4 class, we will be back in our usual room this week.

WEEK 7

Next week we will be continuing with the video editing, so please bring in your work, including any new video you may have shot.

WEEK 5 HOMEWORK

Jump on to Video Art World and search via the categories for works/artists akin to your topic. Link it on your blog.

AND film your video art piece in preparation for editing next week. Please bring your mini DV and external harddrive to class next week.

HAPPY FILMING!!