Intro to 4D: September 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Homework due 10.06.11

*No class next week for Rosh Hashana holiday

1. Edit: Rough cut of your Structural Film / Appropriation project. This means all of your footage is in the Timeline and cut. If you are using filters, split screens, etc. these should be applied and rendered, so that your project plays in the Timeline. Be prepared to present it to Norene & Reena.

2. Read: Two short pieces on Gillian Wearing http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/GillianWearing-2001.pdf and Pipilotti Rist http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/PipilottiRist-EverisOverAll.pdf.

Film & Video: the 1980's

U B U W E B - Film & Video: Dan Graham "Rock My Religion"

*Dan Graham 1982 “Rock My Religion” http://vodpod.com/watch/3340068-u-b-u-w-e-b-film-video-dan-graham-rock-my-religion

Bruce Nauman 1970 “Live/Taped Video Corridor” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrqXiqgQBo
1985 “Good Boy, Bad Boy” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VugLUa47sLI
1992 “Anthro-Socio” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyiZD4Q3Mdk

Chris Marker 1983 “Sans Soleil” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8240960507863855068
1962 “La Jetee”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPi7-faGkw part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVjqXYUWpo part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwlN5t30W4 part 3

Mark Pauline / Survival Research Lab http://srl.org/

The Guerilla Girls http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

Video: the 1990's

Pipilotti Rist 1996 “Sip my ocean” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VTkxwNJHHs
1997 "Ever is Over All" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a56RPZ_cbdc
http://www.ubu.com/film/rist_ents.html

Gillian Wearing 1997 “2 into 1” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7y5uvyhHgc

Shirin Neshat 1998 “Turbulent” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCAssCuOGls

Revised syllabus

09/22 Week 4 VIDEO
Introduction: Video Art- 1990’s
Readings: Gillian Wearing, Pipilotti Rist interview
Assignment: Review FCP basic edits, rough cut, re-shooting
Materials: DVDs, camera and hard drive

09/29 Rosh Hashanah Holiday NO CLASS
Work period - after the holiday.

10/6 Week 5 VIDEO
Introduction: Video Art- 2000's
Assignment: Exporting from FCP, final cut
Materials: DVDs, camera and hard drive

10/13 Week 6 VIDEO CRITIQUE + ANIMATION
VIDEO CRITIQUE
Introduction: Stop-motion Animation (photo-based)
Screening: Jan Svankmajer “Alice” 1988 and “Darkness Light Darkness” 1989
Brothers Quay
Nathalie Djurburg
Reading: "An Interview with William Kendridge", by Dan Cameron, William Kendridge
Sketchbook: Ideas & sketches inspired by screenings and reading
Assignment: Develop a presentation of ideas and sketches to review for your preliminary animation project.
Materials: Select materials for your animation. Bring photographic camera and check out sound recorder - AMT or KU Equipment Center.

10/20 Week 7 ANIMATION
Introduction: Stop-motion Animation (drawing-based)
Screening: William Kentridge 1999 “Drawing the Passing”
Federico Solmi
Selection of international animations
Sound demo with mics and DAT recorder
Assignment: Finish photographing images. *Scan sketchbook entries to date for review.
Materials: Camera and hard drive

10/27 Week 8 ANIMATION
Assignment: Assemble photographs using Final Cut Pro. Develop sound for project. Import sound into Final Cut Pro.
Materials: Camera and hard drive

11/3 Week 9 ANIMATION CRITIQUE
Reading: Introduction to Performance: "American & European Performance
from c. 1933: The Live Art,” excerpt:1950 - 1960, Performance, The Live Art, 1909 -1990
11/10 Week 10 PERFORMANCE
Introduction: Performance History (50’s-80’s)
Screening/Discussion Themes:
Body as Material, Embodiment, Presence/Absence, Identity Politics, Autobiography, Activism, Feminism, Site-specific Performance, Butoh
Readings: "Seventies Performance, To Be with Art is All we Ask", 1970 - 1980", Performance, The Live Art, 1909 -1990

11/17 Week 11 PERFORMANCE
Introduction: Performance Now (90’s-Present)
Screening/Discussion Themes:
Psychological Space, Reworking Historic Situations, Surveillance, Sound-based Performance, Environmental Practices
Assignment: Exercise: Develop a preliminary idea using mapping to explore the body and define new actions. Document the mapping to display and discuss either through photographing or drawing or collage.
Readings: "Keep on Running, The politics of black British performance" by Catherine Ugwu, Let's Get It ON!.

11/22 **(TUESDAY) MAKEUP CLASS
Week 12 PERFORMANCE
Field trip TBD

11/24 Thanksgiving Holiday NO CLASS

12/1 Week 13 PERFORMANCE
Assignment: Define and develop final performance for critique next week.

12/8 Week 14 PERFORMANCE CRITIQUE ** LAST CLASS

12/15 Week 15 FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT FINAL REVIEWS

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Homework due 09.22.11

1. Shoot: Shoot / re-shoot any additional footage you need for your project.

2. Watch: Dan Graham's "Rock My Religion" http://vodpod.com/watch/3340068-u-b-u-w-e-b-film-video-dan-graham-rock-my-religion. Be prepared to discuss in class.

*Focus on getting all of the footage you need to complete your project -- don't worry about assembling a rough cut. Because of our technical concerns, I've moved the deadline to Oct. 13. In class next week, Reena and I will get everyone set up on FCP to edit their final project.

FCP notes

New School tip sheet for FCP: http://www.newschool.edu/at/help/tipsheets/video/fcp.pdf

Software and Hardware Overview
• Digital vs. analog video, nondestructive and nonlinear editing
DV requires 3.6MB of storage per second, 216MB per minute, 1GB per 5 minutes
• Aspect Ratios
4x3: This is the standard television format used throughout the second half of the 20th Century. Sometimes referred to as 12x9.
16x9: This format has gained acceptance as the new standard for widescreen TV, DVD and high-definition video.
21x9 (Cinemascope): A very wide screen format used for theatrical release movies.

• Desktop Tour
• Menus, Shortcuts, and Controls
Shortcuts:
Cmd-+/- to zoom in and out of window
Shift-Z to fit to window
Ctrl-Click for shortcut menus
Cmd-A to select all
Cmd-X to cut
Cmd-Z to copy
Cmd-V to paste
Shift-Click to select multiple items
Home key to go to beginning of sequence
Cmd-C then Option-V to paste attributes
• Editing and Effects Windows
The Browser: window where you organize and access all of your media source material
The Viewer: your source monitor, allows you to view video and audio clips, mark edit points, and add/control effects
The Canvas: monitor where you view playback of edited sequences (linked to the Timeline)
The Timeline: displays edited sequences as clips arrayed on multiple video and audio tracks along a time axis
The Tool Palette: contains editing tools for cutting and moving clips (similar to Photoshop)

Capturing Media
• Log and Capture / Log and Transfer

Getting Digital
• File Naming — .bin, .seq, each folder/drive/partition should not contain the entire name of another f/d/p
• Selecting a Logging Bin
• Logging and Capturing
• AutoSave Features

The Viewer
• Working with Clips
• Navigating with Timecode
• Setting In and Out Points

Editing in FCP
• Creating a sequence
• Basic Editing
Insert edit: inserts clip at the In point, and moves media to the right to make room for the new source clip
Overwrite edit: the source clip overwrites sequence clips past the sequence In point with no time shift in the existing sequence
Replace edit: replaces the contents of a sequence clip with source clip (uses position of viewer playhead)
Fit to Fill edit: the speed of the source clip adjusts to fill the duration specified by the sequence In and Out points
Superimpose edit: source clip is placed on a new track above the target track, starting at the sequence In point
Transition edits: the source clip is inserted into the sequence with the default transition at the source clip's head
• Deleting clips from a sequence
Lift: removes selected material leaving a gap (shortcut: Command-X)
Ripple Delete: removes the selected material and closes the gap (shortcut: Shift-Delete)
• Performing Edits in the Canvas
• Performing Edits in the Timeline

Using the Timeline and Canvas
• The Canvas Window
• The Tool Palette
• Working with Items in the Timeline

Transitions
• Adding Transitions
• When to use transitions
• Locating and Applying Transitions

Sending Project to Tape or DVD
• Tape Output Modes
• Printing to Video

Technical Resources
• The Final Cut Pro Help Menu in Final Cut Pro — this is the entire FCP manual in PDF format, easy to search and relatively well written for a software manual
• http://www.apple.com/support/finalcutpro — for apple technical support and discussion boards
• http://www.mopictive.org — The New York City Final Cut Pro Users Group, free to join and a good resource for technical questions

Converting files for FCP with Compressor

Compressor is both conversion and compression software that comes bundled with FCP and is available on all of the Mac towers at the New School.

1. Open Compressor. You'll get a dialogue box that asks about templates. Hit cancel.

2. Drag the first file you want to convert into the box with the arrow. A thumbnail of your video will appear.

3. Down below, click on the Settings tab. Choose Apple>Formats>QuickTime>Apple ProRes 422. Click and drag Apple ProRes 422 up to where it says "drag settings and destinations here." A QuickTime icon and Apple ProRes 422 will appear on the left, next to your video thumbnail.

4. Go back down and click on the Destinations tab. Choose Custom>Work In Progress. Click and drag Work In Progress up to where it says Source. Work in Progress should then appear next to Apple ProRes. To the right of Work In Progress, choose a new file name, be sure to keep the .mov file extension. Then click Submit on the lower right. Your file will begin compressing -- do not attempt to open it, even though it will appear in the Finder! Once it's done, save it to your hard drive. You can now safely import it into FCP.

*If you need to do this on a computer without Compressor, you can use free software called MPEG StreamClip. There's a tutorial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DXbqysbip7T4.

Setting up your HD project in FCP

1. Open FCP, in the first dialogue box choose Apple ProRes 422 and set the primary scratch disk to your FireWire 800 drive. The program should open.

2. In the upper left choose Final Cut Pro>System Settings. Make sure that all of the options are set to save to your FireWire drive.

3. In the upper left choose Final Cut Pro>Audio/Video Settings. For your sequence preset choose Apple ProRes 422 1280x720 30p/60p, *not* any of the ProRes settings with parentheses like (HQ) or (LT). For your capture preset choose HDV-Apple ProRes 422. For your device control preset choose non-controllable device. Video playback should be set to none and audio to default. Then click OK.

4. Go to File>New Project, then immediately save your project to your FireWire drive.

You're all set! Start editing away. Try and remember to save your project often -- computers crash, especially when they are editing video.

Film & Video: the 1980's

Dan Graham 1982 “Rock My Religion” http://vodpod.com/watch/3340068-u-b-u-w-e-b-film-video-dan-graham-rock-my-religion

Bruce Nauman “Live/Taped Video Corridor” 1970 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrqXiqgQBo
“Good Boy, Bad Boy” 1985 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VugLUa47sLI
“Anthro-Socio” 1992 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyiZD4Q3Mdk

Chris Marker 1983 “Sans Soleil” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8240960507863855068
1962 “La Jetee” (available at NSU Fogelman Library)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPi7-faGkw part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVjqXYUWpo part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwlN5t30W4 part 3

Mark Pauline / Survival Research Lab http://srl.org/

The Guerilla Girls http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

Friday, September 9, 2011

My website and equipment info...

Hey all;

It was great to work with you on Thursday! Here's my website if you want to check out a bit about my practice:

www.radiodress.ca

Also, below you'll find information on the equipment available through Fine Arts. They have cameras, lights, tripods, speakers, projectors and other equipment. If you haven't been there yet, the office is on the 5th floor of 25 East 13th St. The staff there will sign out equipment for you if it's available for a period of up to 2 days. It's limited, but can be less of a hassle than AMT, and has lower late fees. Here's the camera list:

1) SONY 800x Carl Ziess Lens

2) SONY 2000x Carl Ziess Vario-Tessar

3) 2000x Carl Ziess Vario Tessar)

4) SONY 40x Carl Zeiss Lens

And...last but not least - Joan Jonas (Wonderwoman video we saw) has an exhibition at MIT in Boston this month and next. Check it out if you're in the area:

http://arts.mit.edu/va/event/jonas/

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Homework due 09.15.11

1. Draw: Map or storyboard your idea for Project 2: Structural Film <> Appropriation. These can be sketches or written diagrams, but they must clearly articulate your project ideas.

2. Shoot: At least three minutes for footage for Project 2: Structural Film <> Appropriation.

3. Read: This short essay by Nam June Paik "Input-Time and Output-Time" http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/paik_inputoutput.pdf
and this interview with Dara Birnbaum from "The Early Show: Video from 1969-1979" http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/dara_birnbaum_interview.pdf

4. Supplies: Bring in your footage and your portable Fire Wire hard drive.

Project 2: Structural Film <> Appropriation (due 10.13.11)

Create a short (three minutes or less) video piece influenced by Structural Film (Michael Snow's "Wavelength")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_film

or using appropriation (Dara Birnbaum's "Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_(art)

The piece will be worked out through drawings and diagrams in your sketchbook, shot in HD with one of the three New School camera options, and edited in FCP. It is due 10.13.11 for critique. Please bring your sketches, diagrams, and three minutes of footage next week to begin the editing process.

*If you are focusing on appropriation, both of these links will allow you to download youtube videos without using any additional software:
http://keepvid.com/
http://saveyoutube.com/
If you are on your own Mac I recommend downloading MPEG Streamclip:
http://www.squared5.com/
Download the highest resolution MP4 file, but be prepared for low quality videos.
If you are willing to pay $20, iShowU works great for capturing videos in real time:
http://shinywhitebox.com/ishowu-v1/

The Manhattan Wonderwalk

This is an amazing experience, not to be missed. And a great way to get some fabulous video footage!

* * * * *
It's the 3rd Annual Manhattan Wonderwalk! Come join us as we stroll nearly the entirety of the great Island of Manhattan. We will visit familiar spots and little known pathways; we'll see gorgeous public art and mundane displays of beauty. There will also be site-specific performances along the way. You may walk part of the way or all the way, just buy your map for $20 (*student price $10), and you'll be able to find us at any point throughout the day.

We'll start by stretching together at 9:30am, up in Inwood Hill Park, departing at 10am sharp. We will follow a thrilling path of adventure, ending at the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight. That's a 14-hour walk. With breaks and amazing surprises all along the way.

*The discount code is PERAMBULATE, under Secret City Citizen, for $10 tickets.

For more info, click here: http://www.themanhattanwonderwalk.com/

Film & Video: the 1970's

Friday, September 2, 2011

Photo/Video Supplies

Adorama
http://www.adorama.com/
42 West 18th Street, New York City, NY 10011
*Ask about student discounts

B&H
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
9th Ave. @ 34th St. New York, NY 10001
*B&H gives student discounts through this program:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eduAbout.jsp/mode/edu