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
