P1: Light/Form Final (%25)

Specifications
Exactly 1 minute in duration  with audio. Also include opening titling and closing credits with your name and appropriate credits. Make sure you follow the Creative Commons agreement for your Free Sound Project sounds.

Submission
Output to DVD ready to present at the beginning of next  class Oct 1. This DVD will contain your final piece and the 3 exercise files, so make sure you provide DVD buttons and menus as needed.

Also upload a mp4 version to David’s dropbox. Remember to use the correct naming convention.

Also upload a version to Vimeo and post to your blog and write a brief description of the work to explain your concept and formal approach.

Overview
Project One has been based on three in-class exercises intended to provide you with an introduction to frame composition, light, audio, and editing. You will design and produce a one-minute video by adding visuals to the soundscape you produced during exercise 3 (Sound Essay) using the criteria outlined below.

Guidelines and Procedures
Beginning with the soundscape you composed for Sound Essay and develop your theme or a point of view by adding a visual component. Your creative direction will continue to be determined by the choices you made from the noun and verb lists, but you may add an additional verb.

Use still images as your source visual material. These must be original (no stock photos) captured by you or your peers, you may share images with your peers. You may use your work or the techniques from Exercises One and Two or explore working with new still images and audio. You may choose to explore new techniques altogether but they need to be deliberate and show control of the image and sounds.

Ensure the overall structure of your video, your compositional (visual and aural) and editing decisions (your shot/sound placement, transition, effect choices and sequencing) as well as the content of your photographs and sounds formally and conceptually relate to the position you wish to communicate. Pay close attention to graphical (as well as rhythmic, temporal and spatial) editing techniques and to the process of experimentation you have been engaged with throughout the three in-class exercises. Be prepared to discuss your decisions as to every detail of your video.

Evaluation

Concept development: demonstrated understanding of formal and conceptual concerns with regards to video structure – % 30

Creativity: developing a creative and unique video based on the project
guidelines, and ability to experiment with the format of the project – % 30

Technical/Aesthetic: technical and aesthetic quality and control of the
video in terms of composition, aural details and editing – % 25

Meeting project deadlines: posting to blog, in class participation, final critique and presentation – %15

Naming Convention

For general purposes use the following naming convention when handing in digital files:

3009a_0809_p1_jwong

course number_section_academic year_ project_first intial_last name

If it is an exercise, just add ex# following the project:

3009a_0809_p1ex2_jwong

If you have multiple files, then no need to use a folder, just add the version#:

3009a_0809_p1ex1v2_jwong

If there is more than one person, add the names on the end, separated by underscore:

3009a_0809_p1_jwong_dgilmour_cjoseph

If we use these conventions, it will elminate the difficulty in finding your files for class crits, presentations, grading, etc. - Thanks

Sound Essay: Exercise 3

As we work towards the Project 1 final, each student will compose a Sound Essay to explore a theme or a point of view. To generate our creative direction, you will choose 1 from the noun list and 2 from the verb list:

Nouns
environment, history, time, age, culture, space, information, activism, art, language, weather, interface, geography, people, media, money, networks, nature, work, city, transit, shelter, future; or propose a noun with approval from your instructor.

Verbs
bloom, break, burst, combine, crash, crease, cut, drop, condense, dissolve, elevate, emerge, escape, exchange, fracture, flow, float, grab, grow, join, lift, melt, merge, mix, open, peel, perforate, decay, destroy, pierce, push, plunge, prevent, reveal, raise, rotate, repulse, scrape, splinter, tear, trap, unite, wrap; or propose a verb with approval from your instructor.

These transformative verbs describe what the sound will be doing

The Sound Essay will be exactly 1 minute long and be constructed from found sounds; either your own recordings or those found in the Free Sound Project.

Just as we did in the listening exercise, try bringing everyday sounds out of their normalized context (where they are often ignored/not heard). Our objective is for the Sound Essay to echo the sensibilites of your chosen words. By framing familiar sounds in a new way, we will evoke memories, ideas, and imagination of our audience that articulate your POV.

For next class (Sept 25) have your Sound Essay posted to your blog and exported as .mov file ready for in class critique. Also describe your words and how the Sound Essay captures the ideas embodied in the chosen noun and verbs.

Everyday Sounds: Exercise 3

For the next exercise leading up to Project 1, we will be focusing on sound as a compositional element in time-based media.

Between now and next class, we will mindfully listen to the sounds in our everyday environment. In doing so, we will document the individual sounds and composite soundscapes that occur naturally in our daily lives.

As a preliminary for this exercise, you will find two places; one inside and the other outside. In each of these places you will sit quietly for ten minutes with your eyes closed and listen deeply to all the sounds in this place. Bring a notebook/paper and a pencil/pen to jot down a list of all sounds you notice. Record any insights/thoughts you have in regard to these sounds and their effect on you. Think about the following:

• Describe your setting, time and any important particulars
• What sounds did you notice?
• Any interesting or notable patterns?
• Did you become aware of previously missed sounds?
• Were some sounds more prominent than others? Why do think so?
• What did you notice about the quality of the sounds?
• Reflect on your overall experience and understanding of everyday sounds

You will then post this documentation in your blog for next class (Sept 18). In this class we will use sound to construct a timeline in relation with our images for Project 1. Please bring headphones, earbuds for next class

Vimeo Post

In order to post your video to your blog after you have uploaded to Vimeo, use the editor and write this code:

• Be sure to include the square brackets with no spaces
• Paste in the number at the end of the url on your Vimeo video page