12-Hour, Elevator to Heck, Collaborative portrait shoot.

Stills from our 12 - hour collaborative portrait shoot.

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