MARATHON CLASS ON FRIDAY 9 am.-9 pm.

Our marathon make up class starts Friday at 9a.m. and goes until 9p.m.. Be prepared to shoot your 30 second piece of the collaborative project. Also be prepared to crew for the other shoots as well. I will provide dinner.

Required Viewing

Those of you (everyone except Vince) who missed the Luther Price films are required to watch this video and be prepared to discuss it next Friday.

http://youtu.be/UlhnhTPvuF

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Revised Course Outline

For friday's class I would like to catch up on past assignments. 

I want to see these assignments;
Your "POEM" film.
Your found footage project (2 minutes).
Your Handmade film in 16mm (1 minute).

You should be ready to present the work to the class at the beginning of class.

I am lookin to see you demonstrate these skills,
Camera- Shooting and developing black and white film.
Editing- Structuring your poem film for meaning and comprehension, editing of your found footage film for altering or construction of meaning.
Invention, Originality- How you employ the means and materials of the film medium to discover or carry out your ideas. I am looking at your overall approach to the medium and how it might relate to your process in other forms of expression. Be prepared to discuss this.

Things YET TO DO;

Your research paper. A comparison of two films, one of which we have seen and one of your choosing. To discuss 3/23

A collaborative shoot involving the whole class as crew and talent. We can discuss this in class on Friday 3/23

Your final project. From proposal to finish. This is a 3 minute film which will be discussed through a proposal process.

Final Portfolio. A digital version of your projects for the class

SNOW DAY VIEWING

I really don't like snow or the notion of being immobilized by anything. In this situation I try to get done those things that would go undone on a full and sunny day. Like thinking of Spring and the propagation of things.

Take a look at this film by Saul Levine called "A Note to Patti" It's about communicating with someone over time and space.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=aaplw&p=a+note+to+patti

I also found this link to a blog that has more information about Bruce Connor, who's A MOVIE I showed earlier.

http://www.nailgunmedia.com/blog/?p=479

For all of you his work is relevant since he worked with pretty simple means and understood how meaning could be constructed through editing. I also mention this for Elizabeth's project since it lines up wth Connors's BREAKAWAY film from 1966.

Another Snow Post

Snow Day Makup project; Handmade films

This is something you can do at home today in the snow storm. Enjoy the quiet warmth of your home and make a film while you sip hot chocolate. Required viewing for  class.

SNOW FILM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI

Handmade Films and Analog Sound

Handmade Films and Analog Optical Sound

Optical sound constitutes the recording and reading of amplitude based on the amount of light that is projected through a soundtrack area on a film using an illuminating light or laser and a photocell or photodiode. As the photocell picks up the light in varying intensities, the electricity produced is intensified by anamplifier, which in turn powers a loudspeaker, where the electrical impulses are turned into air vibrations and thus, sound waves. In 16 mm, this optical soundtrack is a single mono track placed on the right side of the projected image, and the sound head is 26 frames after the picture gate.  Consequently, in editing the sound should be 26 frames ahead of the picture. In 35 mm, this can be mono or stereo, on the left side of the projected image, with the sound head 21 frames after the gate .^[2]

The first form of optical sound was represented by horizontal bands of clear (white) and solid (black) area. The space between solid points represented amplitude and was picked up by the photo-electric cell on the other side of a steady, thin beam of light being shined through it. This variable density form of sound was eventually phased out because of its incompatibility with color stocks. The alternative and ultimately the successor of variable density has been the variable area track, in which a clear, vertical waveform against black represents the sound, and the width of the waveform is equivalent to the amplitude. Variable area does have slightly less frequency response than variable density, but because of the grain and variable infrared absorption of various film stocks, variable density has a lower signal-to-noise ratio.

Optical stereo is recorded and read through a bilateral variable area track, recorded using Dolby Stereo matrix encoding and Dolby noise reduction. Left, center, right and surround channels are matrix-encoded into these two tracks.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, optical sound Super-8 mm copies were produced mainly for airline in-flight movies. Even though technology was soon made obsolete by video equipment, the majority of small-gauge films used magnetic sound rather than optical sound for a higher frequency range.

Check out this handmade film workshop in Dublin Ireland. Or go to the "HOW TO" videos on the lower right side of this blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgczrqcswic