To Do This Week
Read: What is Digital Cinema?, by Lev Manovich
Watch/Explore:
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- Light is Waiting , by Michael Robinson
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- Lake Como Remix by Mark Amerka
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- The Ceibas Cycle – Evan Meaney, glitch tutorial
Blog: After reading Lev Manovich’s “What is Digital Cinema”, discuss the digital aesthetics of one or two works listed above. What kind of hybrid spaces are depicted in these videos with altered-pixels breaking the illusion of cinema space? How is the “indexicality” of traditional cinema (it truthfulness in capturing images of bodies in a three-dimensional world) manipulated or challenged? What kind of cinema spaces are these? Do they inspire you to create your own cinema that alters or distorts the capture image? Please quote Manovich in your reflections.
Video Talk
Friday Class (Zoom)
Montages assignments
Job Profiles pre-production
Discuss Lev Manovich “What is Digital Cinema?”
Demo compositing / green screen
Notes
COLLAGE > REMIX
New ways to depict space – multiple, discontinuous, mixed media
– newspaper and paint
– photography and drawing
– text and image
The Dream, 1908 by Pablo Picasso
CINEMA PAINTING
Painting directly onto the film.
MATTE / COMPOSITING EFFECTS
combining two or more images into a single, final image by masking certain areas of the film emulsion to selectively control which areas are exposed. sometimes paintings are added to backgrounds through matte techniques
Digital Compositing Effects
combining images by replacing colored pixel areas usually in order to create the illusion of a single image
– multiple layers of video
– effects (pixels as information)
– green screen – swap pixel colors
– the pixel grid
– enhance image with AI
New Media (HTML) – each piece of media is discrete, not a composite
Machine Learning
Google’s Deep Dream software– machine learning
GREEN SCREEN
Cloverfield, green screen effect
DIGITAL “PAINTING”
GLITCH / DATAMOSHING
Layering Tracks
ROTOSCOPING (painting on video)
Waking Life, by Richard Linklater
CMDC student Haley Zach
SCREEN CAPTURE /DESKTOP SPACE (text and multiple frames)
There are many option for screen capture. On a Mac use the free Quicktime: File>New Screen Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU
Noah, by by Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg as a class project
Green Screen In-Class Exercise
Compositing 5% DUE March 12th (two weeks)
Create a 30-60 second video that explores a screen space made of multiple layers of video, audio, text and/or graphic imagery. There are many techniques you can combine to create a collages of video elements: compositing (layering of video tracks), green screen, video effects, spatial montage, etc. The only rule is you must incorporate the “indexicality” of video (your own or remixed from other sources).
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- collage > remix
- screen > interface
- text > titles, subtitles
- effects > glitch, green screen, color correction, mask, picture in picture
- downloading YouTube videos, screen capture
- mobile cinema – Cardiff
- augmented, layered space and time
- green screen