Notes from Martin

Notes from Martin

• video art ---60's!
• not like tv or film....translate audio/visual w/ analogue or digital code
• can be easily manipulated
• Vilem Flusser- video as "dialogical memory"
• can be self reflexive
• Jacques Derrida- video art must be considered in relation to conventional artistic language
• -Decolage- created through an aggressive act (coined by Vostell)
• -1960s rise of televised art galleries......The Medium is the Medium
• 70's!.....digital media...editing
• 90"s!........no mre magnestic tapes.... now data sets
• '97 sony/canon- 1st digital camera
• the medium is always changing b/c of new tech

Stop Motion Proposal

For my stop motion I plan to explore empty space. I want to show spaces that are inhabited my many people on a regular basis so that the lack of people seems odd. To achieve this I will use the camera as the eyes of the viewer so that it is almost like looking at a ghost town. 

Favorite Stop Motion...

Favorite ART VIDEO!!!!

Lynda.com notes

• FCP interface--Final Cut Pro
• Library holds event folders that hold project folders
• diff. between event and project---event is where you store media, projects of same event, & project is what you actually edit the video in-----one sequence only
• audio skimming--shift s
• play pause- space bar
• fxn left/right-end of clip
• new thing?

 -new event- under file/right click-name

-import media under file

-ORGANIZE MEDIA!!!!----outside final cut

HUD- heads up folder- can see where media is created

• change the clip appearance with the light switch button
• b-roll
• navigation-------
• i/j-start
• o/-end
• l-fast/forward
• k-pause
• slow motion- hold k, do j,l----for exact audio
• 4 types of editing tools-------key strokes
• for favorites- F key/ drag to soundbites
• for favorites- F key/ drag to soundbites
• Duration--ctrl D    
• undo- ctrl Z

           

          

Lynda.com Notes

Lynda.com Notes

• Resolution is how detailed the image is...how many pixels
• Pixel- the unit to measure the image resolution
• HD is 1080x720....important....don't crop video
• 1080 HD -video image 1920x1080 pixels & 720 HD is 1280x720 pixels
•  camera's mega pixels camera does not relate to resolution of the video of camera
• 1080 video = image size ~ = 2 megapixels & 720 video image size ~= 1 megapixel
• video frame rate- 30 frames/sec.......used to be 24
• for slow motion- need more frames to be smooth -about 60
• shutter speed in video diff from pictures
• high shutter speed-freeze frame-noisy
• 1/25 -simple movements......higher the speed weirder the look
• 1/30 - 1/90 is good
•  ideal shutter speed is 2 times the frame rate
• manual exposure!
• when using RAW be more careful with exposure
• blinking light- checking correct exposure 
• use the histogram
• check f-stops
• good iso-100 to 400, maybe to 800
• wide f-stops for limited depth of field?  cut  light & get a neutral density filter
• zoom lenses are NOT fast
• when shooting wide open with fast lens

Notes from "An Essential Guide to Video Art" 

• Video Art instillation are experimental in using "The Body the Image, & the Space-in Between"
• suggests temporary occupation of space
• the frame of the piece is the 'room' that it inhabits
• visitor often interacts or even helps make up the piece, not the artist
• not theatrical
• two and three dimensions freely interact
• Two types can be differentiated by tense- closed-circuit video can relay images and sound of visitors in one or more monitors-----this explores the fit between images and the built environment; process of mediating power.

           -recorded-video art installation--like a spectator on a stage, a conceptual world is made manifest as literal and visual objects set in a physical relation to each other

• Basically the difference is how the visitor interacts, and is the video prerecorded.
• TV? to be art---the placement is purposeful and engaging with the space
• Different degrees to which the installation work occupies 3D space---video wall, kinetic painting, relief, sculpture, and installation
• With multiple monitors-comparison and contrast
• You have to physically experience these pieces
• DVD players------add new dimension with what you can do.

Favorite Installation Piece....? 

http://vimeo.com/91496078 

This piece is created by Urbanscreen, a creative company out of Bremen

• www.urbanscreen.com

Appropriation 

So roasting Marshmallows in 10 degree weather perhaps isn't the bed idea. 

(Performance piece uncut)

The experience in a nutshell

Performance piece cut-very different)

Miles de Suspiros

Ghost

More Stop Motion

We had only 1 hour, corny props and was restricted to only 5 seconds of video. So.........

"the MISTAKE"

Stop Motions

I remember some of my first favorite movies were those claymations about chickens runnin' and little boys who ate giant peaches. So I thought I would pay homage to my childhood with my own take on stop motion.