Thursday, May 21, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
project two revised
I have decided to change directions for this next project.
I am going to make a video for a book, Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley. The book is an alternative story of Noah's Arc, and deals with such themes as belief, patriarchy, mystique, and good vs. evil. It is a really interesting book, one of my favourites.
I will be doing a stop-motion video that will use objects to represent these different themes.
Here is a video sketch:
I am going to make a video for a book, Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley. The book is an alternative story of Noah's Arc, and deals with such themes as belief, patriarchy, mystique, and good vs. evil. It is a really interesting book, one of my favourites.
I will be doing a stop-motion video that will use objects to represent these different themes.
Here is a video sketch:
Thursday, April 9, 2009
project two: creative brief
TITLE
23rd Dimension
OVERVIEW
With this project, I hope to achieve what I had planned to do for project one; create a stop-motion animation crossing back and forth between the second and third dimension. To use a basic example, someone standing in front of a wall throws a tennis ball towards it, and as it hits the wall, it recedes into the wall as an image on pieces of paper. I am pursuing #3, the film festival trailer. I think this idea (2-D and 3-D) will serve well to promote a festival that’s based on dimensions. I think the content will be composed of someone (3-D) turning on a television set (2-D) and be captivated by interacting with the television set.
AUDIENCE
The intended audience would include two larger groups of people: those already interested in films/film festivals, and those who aren’t, but are willing to attend a film festival if intrigued enough. Depending on the film festival, the target audience will be different (for example the Reel Asian Film Festival might appeal most to Asian people). However, the direction I am going with the project will be of visual interest to anyone who is aware of current affairs and pop culture.
KEY MESSAGE
The key message of this video will be to show viewers a video that will demonstrate a different way of viewing film by having the viewer in the video interacting with the video, with an emphasis on creating interest in the festival by using visually creative imagery.
CONTENT PLANNING
The video will consist of a person (male or female) sitting down and turning on a television set that sits in
front of the chair they are sitting on. The room is fairly sparse. They television is actually just an image of a television on the wall. As they turn on the television, they begin to interact with the images on the television “screen”, pulling them out of the second dimension and into the third (real life). The objects in the video are yet to be determined (it should be determined by the kind of festival).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I found some interesting surgical tutorials on youtube that are a cross between 2-dimensional elements and 3-dimensional elements, but have yet to found anything artistic or design-based that uses this technique. I will keep searching for sources and inspirations as the projects transpires.
TECHNOLOGIES
I will be using Photoshop and InDesign to create the stop-motion images, and print them out. I will then use a digital camera to capture the stop-motion video. Although I won’t be using technology I haven’t already used, I have not created and printed out each frame of a stop-motion video, so it will be a new skill/technique I will have gained from this project.
SCHEDULE
APRIL 17
-researching film festivals in Toronto, developing concepts specific to the different festivals
APRIL 24
-festival chosen, storyboard completed
MAY 1
-deveoping and gathering materials/images to be used in the final video
-considering/predicting obstacles
MAY 8
-shooting the video
MAY 15
-video shot, editing
MAY 21
-submit final video
23rd Dimension
OVERVIEW
With this project, I hope to achieve what I had planned to do for project one; create a stop-motion animation crossing back and forth between the second and third dimension. To use a basic example, someone standing in front of a wall throws a tennis ball towards it, and as it hits the wall, it recedes into the wall as an image on pieces of paper. I am pursuing #3, the film festival trailer. I think this idea (2-D and 3-D) will serve well to promote a festival that’s based on dimensions. I think the content will be composed of someone (3-D) turning on a television set (2-D) and be captivated by interacting with the television set.
AUDIENCE
The intended audience would include two larger groups of people: those already interested in films/film festivals, and those who aren’t, but are willing to attend a film festival if intrigued enough. Depending on the film festival, the target audience will be different (for example the Reel Asian Film Festival might appeal most to Asian people). However, the direction I am going with the project will be of visual interest to anyone who is aware of current affairs and pop culture.
KEY MESSAGE
The key message of this video will be to show viewers a video that will demonstrate a different way of viewing film by having the viewer in the video interacting with the video, with an emphasis on creating interest in the festival by using visually creative imagery.
CONTENT PLANNING
The video will consist of a person (male or female) sitting down and turning on a television set that sits in
front of the chair they are sitting on. The room is fairly sparse. They television is actually just an image of a television on the wall. As they turn on the television, they begin to interact with the images on the television “screen”, pulling them out of the second dimension and into the third (real life). The objects in the video are yet to be determined (it should be determined by the kind of festival).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I found some interesting surgical tutorials on youtube that are a cross between 2-dimensional elements and 3-dimensional elements, but have yet to found anything artistic or design-based that uses this technique. I will keep searching for sources and inspirations as the projects transpires.
TECHNOLOGIES
I will be using Photoshop and InDesign to create the stop-motion images, and print them out. I will then use a digital camera to capture the stop-motion video. Although I won’t be using technology I haven’t already used, I have not created and printed out each frame of a stop-motion video, so it will be a new skill/technique I will have gained from this project.
SCHEDULE
APRIL 17
-researching film festivals in Toronto, developing concepts specific to the different festivals
APRIL 24
-festival chosen, storyboard completed
MAY 1
-deveoping and gathering materials/images to be used in the final video
-considering/predicting obstacles
MAY 8
-shooting the video
MAY 15
-video shot, editing
MAY 21
-submit final video
project one: tenth words
http://vimeo.com/4076481
(when I tried to embed it through vimeo, it got distorted)
I decided to go with a different option of my ten original ones.
I chose a newspaper article and selected every tenth word.
I then wrote out in one, long, run-on sentence all of these selected words.
Then I started to add in punctuation, to make it sound like proper English. I find the result to be very poetic, as some phrases are created, all without intention.
I then found images that corresponded to the first thing I imagine when I heard each individual word.
I then placed the images in sync with the word they correspond to.
The result is a audio-image-based sample of associations.
(when I tried to embed it through vimeo, it got distorted)
I decided to go with a different option of my ten original ones.
I chose a newspaper article and selected every tenth word.
I then wrote out in one, long, run-on sentence all of these selected words.
Then I started to add in punctuation, to make it sound like proper English. I find the result to be very poetic, as some phrases are created, all without intention.
I then found images that corresponded to the first thing I imagine when I heard each individual word.
I then placed the images in sync with the word they correspond to.
The result is a audio-image-based sample of associations.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
project one: narrowing down the options
For this project I have decided to go with an idea that came from my idea of using words with the prefix 'ten'. I will demonstrate the meaning of ten words beginning with 'ten'.
The video will be stop-motion, and will experiment with the idea of things moving from the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. This quick video-sketch demonstrates what I mean by this:
The words will all be demonstrated/explained on an 11x17 piece of paper on a wall (5 pieces wide, 2 pieces tall), creating a kind of grid. Each word will be allocated five seconds for this demonstration to happen. They will all be a combination of 2 dimensional stop-motion, and a three-dimensional character interacting with them.
The ten words are:
1) Tendril: the stem or appendage of a plant. For this word, an image of a plant will be on the paper. A (real) hand will approach the paper and grab a stem).
2) Tender: soft, easily wounded. For this word, something (haven't quite decided, maybe a piece of meat as they are often described as tender) will be cut by the (real) person.
3) Tennis: the sport. For this word, the 3-d person will hit a tennis ball from 3-d into the paper, and it will fade away, as seen in the video above.
4) Tenor: adult male singer. For this word, the 3-d person will be conducting images of a tenor singer. Here is a video clip I will take the images from:
http://www.archive.org/details/Europeanposte-FrankTenagliaTenorPanisAngelicus753-3
5) Tent: a portable home. For this word, a tent will be assembled in the 2-d images, and the 3-d character will zip-up the tent's "door".
6) Tenaculum: a surgeon's knife. For this word, a beating heart will be shown on the paper, and the 3-d character will use the knife to perform surgery on it.
7) Tentacle: slender flexible process in animals. I don't know exactly what I'll be doing to demonstrate this word.
8) Tense: stretched tight. For this word, the 3-d character will grab a rope from the 2-d image and pull it over their shoulder, facing away from the wall.
9) tenth: tenth part, after ninth. I also don't know exactly what I will do for this word.
10) tend: pay attention to. For this word, the 3-d character will mend a wound on an arm in the 2-d image on the wall.
The video will be stop-motion, and will experiment with the idea of things moving from the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. This quick video-sketch demonstrates what I mean by this:
The words will all be demonstrated/explained on an 11x17 piece of paper on a wall (5 pieces wide, 2 pieces tall), creating a kind of grid. Each word will be allocated five seconds for this demonstration to happen. They will all be a combination of 2 dimensional stop-motion, and a three-dimensional character interacting with them.
The ten words are:
1) Tendril: the stem or appendage of a plant. For this word, an image of a plant will be on the paper. A (real) hand will approach the paper and grab a stem).
2) Tender: soft, easily wounded. For this word, something (haven't quite decided, maybe a piece of meat as they are often described as tender) will be cut by the (real) person.
3) Tennis: the sport. For this word, the 3-d person will hit a tennis ball from 3-d into the paper, and it will fade away, as seen in the video above.
4) Tenor: adult male singer. For this word, the 3-d person will be conducting images of a tenor singer. Here is a video clip I will take the images from:
http://www.archive.org/details/Europeanposte-FrankTenagliaTenorPanisAngelicus753-3
5) Tent: a portable home. For this word, a tent will be assembled in the 2-d images, and the 3-d character will zip-up the tent's "door".
6) Tenaculum: a surgeon's knife. For this word, a beating heart will be shown on the paper, and the 3-d character will use the knife to perform surgery on it.
7) Tentacle: slender flexible process in animals. I don't know exactly what I'll be doing to demonstrate this word.
8) Tense: stretched tight. For this word, the 3-d character will grab a rope from the 2-d image and pull it over their shoulder, facing away from the wall.
9) tenth: tenth part, after ninth. I also don't know exactly what I will do for this word.
10) tend: pay attention to. For this word, the 3-d character will mend a wound on an arm in the 2-d image on the wall.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
ten
concepts surrounding the theme of 10:
1) decades: google images, top hits of 1950's - 2000's, showing most viewed or associated images with each decade.
themes: stereotypes, generalizations, blocks of time
2) scores: digital collage, elements of competitive sports which aim for a perfect 10.
themes:perfect scores, aspirations, judgment
3) words: every tenth word highlighted to create the following sentence: crossing weakest wrote park two to and charge send told email rickety amazed on by outside St. used overflowing responsibility it property crews the greet Barrett called city empty where do a morning trash property depending.
4) money: increments adding up to ten/one juxtaposed with receipt transfer paper
themes: counting, saving, money, consuming, spending
5) channel ten: photo of television
6) X: graphic composition of X, the symbol representing ten
themes: representation, counting, Roman numerals
7) squares: increasing ten times in units of ten, rotating ten times
themes: multiplication, mathematics
8) ten provinces: a photo of each province's provincial flag
themes: nationality, distance, "Canadianism"
9) prefix: "ten" as a prefix
themes: words within words, changing words
10) Polaroid packages: ten exposures per Polaroid package, now no longer in production
themes: rarity, extinction, obsolete machines and technology
1) decades: google images, top hits of 1950's - 2000's, showing most viewed or associated images with each decade.
themes: stereotypes, generalizations, blocks of time
2) scores: digital collage, elements of competitive sports which aim for a perfect 10.
themes:perfect scores, aspirations, judgment
3) words: every tenth word highlighted to create the following sentence: crossing weakest wrote park two to and charge send told email rickety amazed on by outside St. used overflowing responsibility it property crews the greet Barrett called city empty where do a morning trash property depending.
4) money: increments adding up to ten/one juxtaposed with receipt transfer paper
themes: counting, saving, money, consuming, spending
5) channel ten: photo of television
6) X: graphic composition of X, the symbol representing ten
themes: representation, counting, Roman numerals
7) squares: increasing ten times in units of ten, rotating ten times
themes: multiplication, mathematics
8) ten provinces: a photo of each province's provincial flag
themes: nationality, distance, "Canadianism"
9) prefix: "ten" as a prefix
themes: words within words, changing words
10) Polaroid packages: ten exposures per Polaroid package, now no longer in production
themes: rarity, extinction, obsolete machines and technology
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