Forest Hills T Stop

Here is my last and final project. I don't want to say anything that would prejudge you about the film, so take a look.

Assignment for March 26

1. Write a last/final project spec and email to me before we meet at the gallery on Saturday, March 22nd. We will discuss after gallery visit (Mike and Michael we should do an email chain and/or chat).

2. Ravi -- find accessible soviet film book.

BOILING HORROR

How to Make Toast

Its interesting working with real actors. Especially when they are YOUR progeny. But they were awesome. This film needs sound. The school camera was great and I was able to do a lot of editing easily in iMovie 3.0 (I have an OLD Mac at home)!

Assignment for March 12

1. Finish editing your piece in iMovie.

2. Output as web video and post to blip.

3. Read the Eisenstein handout.

Assignment for March 5th

1. Finish storyboarding your treatments.

2. Shoot mini-DV footage to edit -- DO NOT EDIT YET.

Charles Hughley Treatment

There is an old saying if you watch a pot of water on a stove it won't boil...so that is the premise of my treatment to boil water. To add narrative and some sort of interesting twist this will be in more of a horror flick type of movie. I will take the necessary steps to boil water, some one will mention the old saying, then i will proceed to watch the water boil....and the rest you will see
;-)

Assignment for February 27

I know you guys are on top of this, but wanted to keep our assignment posts alive.

1. Develop one page treatment for "simple task" (if you want to inject some narrative, that's okay!) Goal is for final video piece to be not more than 2 minutes long.

2. Bring treatment into class.

3. Charles, can you sign out two cameras from Ken Fye before class (I'll drop you a note about this as well).

Treatment Assignment: How to make toast (Berger)

The premise for my movie is simple: imagine Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss's the Cat in the Hat making toast. Now imagine that my kids are Thing 1 and Thing 2.
I see one child opening the fridge and bringing out a loaf of bread, then throwing a slice at the other. Then they might both run around the house holding slices. Eventually bread gets into the toaster, then the toaster might be set on too high a setting. Smoke pours out. Alarms go off. Children smile. Toast.

I blipped my swf

If you click on the image, you will see the Flash movie in a new window.
Interestingly, blip.tv does not like .swf files so much either. It tries to convert everything to Flash video, .flv format, but since this is not a video to begin with, it can't do it. The result is that it uploads it but it does not put its nice player around it. :-(

CHARLES HUGHLEY: FLASH ANIMATION

This is my animation nothing special just a bunch of shapes...

Berger's Flash Movie

My movie exported to Flash as a 12kb file. However, since Blogger won't take Flash files, I had to make it a movie. The same movie was 13.9 MB proving Ravi's point that vector is smaller and better than raster (if you have vector content). As you will see, I got better with Flash, but I still find a lot of the interface awkward.

Slip slidin'

Okay -- it's official "my friends" (that's my little John McCain-ism), we have started to slip a bit in the class. It all happened with the animation stuff bleeding over... but hey, I got my shapes to move around in Flash during my demo!

So here's where we stand during this Presidents Day week:
- your assignment for this week is to work with Flash and FrameThief and strut your stuff in class.
- so this week we'll start stepping into Module Three this week, but Module Four will probably get the short shrift (sp?)
- I'll try to revise our syllabus and post that online to keep us all together.
- I'd like for us to do a field trip to the List at MIT, but unfortunately their late night is Thursday (until 8pm), so let's see if we can find a time for all of us to go. We can do a weekend maybe? (in lieu of a regularly scheduled class)
- I apologize if I've not been as active on our blog due to some life-business, but kudos to those who are keeping it fresh!

ASSIGNMENT #2 (HUGHLEY)

Assignment 2: Ruggles Story (Berger)

I had a lot of fun with this assignment, playing in Photoshop. I tried ghosting in the image on the bottom right. After I played for a while, I thought I better edit it down. However, I made sure to leave one little thing that Mary might not like.

Assignment for January 23

1. Sequence #1 Assignment: Revisit your Composition #1 assignment by extending the idea of a transformation to a five image sequence to present in class. All images should be presented simultaneously per the examples we looked at in class.

ASSIGNMENT #1 (HUGHLEY)

this is my transformation does anyone have an idea of what it is???

Assignment 1: Ruggles Empty at Night

This is my shot for Assignment 1. I was in Ruggles the night of the snow storm and it was empty. Since I don't often see it this way, I thought the transformation would be easy to make.
- Mike Berger

Assignment for January 16

1. Join this blog and leave a comment in this post that answers, "What do you hope to get out of this class?" The more info the better!

2. Read the handout.

3. Composition #1 Project: Compose and shoot images that convey the theme of “transformation”. Choose one image to present in class. Post this image on the class blog (or post a link if you post it somewhere like flickr).