Perspective and building space inside the frame.
Screenings: Single shot/ static shot
About performance
Screenings: Single shot/ static shot
About performance
ADDITIONAL READINGS
PROJECT #1: Fake Self
Portrait
3-5 minutes
DUE: Oct 1
In this
“mock-umentary” assignment, you may utilize any or all of the conventions of
autobiography or personal video – mobile phone video clips, interviews with
people who know you, fictional re-creations of past events, archival photographs
with voice-over narration, daily video-diary entries, staged performances in
the real world, etc. - in order to
create a fake self-portrait.
Your fictional self-portrait
video project should either (a) convey a sense of reality and believability
through the use of familiar documentary-style conventions or (b) create an
intervention into reality through the clash of real people and situations with
made-up characters.
You must create the
majority of the audio and video used in the project. Some found media elements
(images, sounds, text) can be included in addition to the material you create
yourself. The final video must be edited, and should include multiple layers of
sound information (e.g., interviews, voice-over narration, sound effects, music,
background ambient noises).
DUE in one week
- This assignment is inspired by observational techniques from two different moments in film history.
The earliest films produced by the Lumiere and other pioneering filmmakers involved
strategies of looking that are still valuable to practice.
Make a 60 second 1 shot film that observes a a performance in the world, or a montage that observes a place or object.
You must have perfect lighting and focus and thoughtful angles to communicate how you wish this place to be seen. This also shows that you are accomplished at using the camera.
You must use a tripod for this project.
New Deal films
The River
The Coming of the Dial 1933
AUG 20; Introductions, blogs, assessment
Screenings
AUG 22: Introduction to camera. In-class shooting, screenings
Poetics
Happy Sushi
Happy Sushi from Bart Radio SEA/NYC on Vimeo.
STATEMENT BY JUSTIN LINCOLN (US, digital video, 2013, 3:37)The earliest films produced by the Lumiere and other pioneering filmmakers involved
strategies of looking that are still valuable to practice.
Make a 60 second 1 shot film that observes a a performance in the world, or a montage that observes a place or object.
You must have perfect lighting and focus and thoughtful angles to communicate how you wish this place to be seen. This also shows that you are accomplished at using the camera.
You must use a tripod for this project.
Additional Reading: Do you know how lenses see? Zettl: What Lenses See
Additional Viewing:
Market Street Tomonori Nishikawa: https://vimeo.com/74507691
Camera Man by Buster Keaton
Rain by Joris Ivens
City Symphonies
Lumiere
WPA films
Camera Man by Buster Keaton
Rain by Joris Ivens
City Symphonies
Lumiere
WPA films
Lindsay Greer, Circus
Waterer Watered
Workers Leaving the Factory
Gaumont treasures - early film
siu.kanopy.com/video/gaumont-treasures-1897-1913
Gaumont treasures - early film
siu.kanopy.com/video/gaumont-treasures-1897-1913
New Deal films
The Coming of the Dial 1933
AUG 20; Introductions, blogs, assessment
Screenings
AUG 22: Introduction to camera. In-class shooting, screenings
Poetics
Happy Sushi
Happy Sushi from Bart Radio SEA/NYC on Vimeo.
BLOOM by Scott Stark (US, 2012, 11:00)
LOOKING FOR JIRO by Tina Takemoto (US, digital video, 2011, 5:50)
PASSAGE by Cheryl Pagurek (Canada, 2007, 8:23)
THE RANCHER by Kelly Sears (US, 2012, 7:00)
https://vimeo.com/57544766
PLEDGED by Celeste Fichter (US, digital video, 2012, 2:46)
MAGIC MIRROR MAZE by Gregg Biermann (US, digital video, 2013, 5:10)
https://www.fandor.com/films/magic_mirror_maze
THE TIME THAT REMAINS by Soda_Jerk (Australia, 2012, 11:55)
ARACHNE’S THREAD by Emma Osbourn (UK, 2012, 4:30)
https://vimeo.com/25223811
https://vimeo.com/25223811
TRIPTYCH B by Zoë Fothergill (Scotland/UK, 2013, 9:37)
DEATH DRIVE by Liz Rodda (US, 2013, 7:37)
CLIFFS QUARRIES BRIDGES AND DAMS by Josh Hite (Canada, digital video, 2012, 4:00)
FLY by Scott Stark (US, 2012, 3:00)
Stillness and thinking as work
Passion (JL Godard) clip 1 Empty screen, low intensity space, high contrast tonePassion by JL Godard Clip 2
Dara Birnbaum, Wonder Woman
FINDING AND CONVERTING FOUND FOOTAGE:
If you use other people's creative work, be prepared to make significant changes in its meaning. You may use your own footage from older projects, or that of friends. Look for footage aggressively- don't stop with the first clips you see.
HERE is an overview of Appropriation and law regarding fair use.
Please follow the link and give it a look over.
Dirpy.com is a good downloader/converter.
If you use other people's creative work, be prepared to make significant changes in its meaning. You may use your own footage from older projects, or that of friends. Look for footage aggressively- don't stop with the first clips you see.
HERE is an overview of Appropriation and law regarding fair use.
Please follow the link and give it a look over.
Dirpy.com is a good downloader/converter.
- Youtube
- Vimeo.com
- Internet Archive-- especially check out the
- PRelinger ARchives of old industrial films. These films depict the construction of the world your parents were born into. All material on this site is open source and creative capital, but double check permission.
