Thursday, April 26, 2012
DTC 375 Class Video Projects
Click below to view individual student video projects
BACON,KRISTA
BARTOSOVSKY,MEGHAN
BAUER,INAHLEE
BEAUCHAINE,SAUNDRA
BELVIN,ANDREW
BLYSTONE,VERN
BUCK,TRAVIS
BUCKNER,NICOLE
CHAUDOIN,MICHAEL
CHEN,KEVIN
CLARKE,JASON
FINAZZO,JOSEPH
HEAD,JASON
KOZACEK,MADISON
LANGLOIS,MICHAEL
PHILBROOK,GREG
RAETZMAN,KATELYNN
ROBERTSON, AJ (AUSTIN)
RUHE,BRYAN
SCHAEFFER,KYLE
THOMPSON,LIA
TOLLISEN,LOUISE
UNVERZAGT,MICHAEL (jumpdrive)
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Last-Minute VIDEO Project Notes
Hello Students,
I am seeing a flurry of last-minute emails come in related to the video project, so I will do my best to continue checking email tonight and also tomorrow morning and responding as quickly as I can, hopefully the answers have been helpful so far.
A couple of potentially obvious points: Be sure to plan for the amount of time it will take for your finished video to "render" with the editing tool - these can be big files so that takes time! And then, plan also for the amount of time it will take to UPLOAD such big files to a video site (and check the limits of the video site you plan to use BEFORE you render, to be sure you don't save the file larger than the site will accept.)
I also have two calls for help: Any student that can help a fellow student with either of these requests, I will toss in 5 extra credit points:
I have a student looking for help on how to use the Video Cameras loaned out by the Fine Arts dept., if you can help with a crash course, it would be appreciated!
Also, I have a student being stymied by Windows Movie Maker on a personal computer. If you have access to WMM and a fast(er) computer that won't crash trying to convert the project, let me know and I will connect you.
Looking forward to seeing the finished projects!
Prof M
I am seeing a flurry of last-minute emails come in related to the video project, so I will do my best to continue checking email tonight and also tomorrow morning and responding as quickly as I can, hopefully the answers have been helpful so far.
A couple of potentially obvious points: Be sure to plan for the amount of time it will take for your finished video to "render" with the editing tool - these can be big files so that takes time! And then, plan also for the amount of time it will take to UPLOAD such big files to a video site (and check the limits of the video site you plan to use BEFORE you render, to be sure you don't save the file larger than the site will accept.)
I also have two calls for help: Any student that can help a fellow student with either of these requests, I will toss in 5 extra credit points:
I have a student looking for help on how to use the Video Cameras loaned out by the Fine Arts dept., if you can help with a crash course, it would be appreciated!
Also, I have a student being stymied by Windows Movie Maker on a personal computer. If you have access to WMM and a fast(er) computer that won't crash trying to convert the project, let me know and I will connect you.
Looking forward to seeing the finished projects!
Prof M
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Updated grades sent, and a correction to Proj 1 grades
Good evening class,
Tonight, after the last-call deadline for late work, I sent out updated DTC 375 grades, including grades for Exercises 7 & 8. Also, the actual Audio Project 1 grades sent to students back in March did not, in some cases, correctly transfer to the earlier printout handed out Thursday. I have corrected this error in tonight's email. And since the first email tonight did not display the grade image for some, I resent it again as an attached image.
Regards,
Prof M
Tonight, after the last-call deadline for late work, I sent out updated DTC 375 grades, including grades for Exercises 7 & 8. Also, the actual Audio Project 1 grades sent to students back in March did not, in some cases, correctly transfer to the earlier printout handed out Thursday. I have corrected this error in tonight's email. And since the first email tonight did not display the grade image for some, I resent it again as an attached image.
Regards,
Prof M
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Virtual Worlds
New digital media permit users to fulfill the ages-old wish to escape and immerse in fantasy worlds, but in a new and more participatory way, Janet Murrow notes in Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997, p. 98).
Whereas 18th-century readers immersed themselves in the fantasy world of novels, today users can escape into participatory augmented and virtual reality spaces.
Second Life is one of the earliest, best known, and most popular virtual worlds.
Creating a personal AVATAR, a digital representation of one's virtual self, is the beginning step in navigating virtual worlds. In the virtual world, through the Avatar, you can be whoever you want to be. What happens to identity in a world populated with self-constructed avatars?
Do You Want to Date My Avatar? (The Guild)
And this humorous remix response:
I'm Too Busy to Date Your Avatar
And this digital to analog remediation: Humans playing Avatars!
What does it mean for society that we can escape into these immersive environments? Are we at risk of blurring the line between virtual and real?
IBM: Avatars
And what about relationships? Does the ability to be whoever we want to be in the virtual world reduce our ability to have real relationships and make real connections in the real world.
Coke: Avatars
What makes immersive worlds seem "real"? Here are some interesting insights from James Cameron, director of AVATAR, about his own question to make the immersive world of that movie believable to the audience.
Avatar: The Movie (Discover Networks)
Whereas 18th-century readers immersed themselves in the fantasy world of novels, today users can escape into participatory augmented and virtual reality spaces.
Second Life is one of the earliest, best known, and most popular virtual worlds.
Creating a personal AVATAR, a digital representation of one's virtual self, is the beginning step in navigating virtual worlds. In the virtual world, through the Avatar, you can be whoever you want to be. What happens to identity in a world populated with self-constructed avatars?
Do You Want to Date My Avatar? (The Guild)
And this humorous remix response:
I'm Too Busy to Date Your Avatar
And this digital to analog remediation: Humans playing Avatars!
What does it mean for society that we can escape into these immersive environments? Are we at risk of blurring the line between virtual and real?
IBM: Avatars
And what about relationships? Does the ability to be whoever we want to be in the virtual world reduce our ability to have real relationships and make real connections in the real world.
Coke: Avatars
What makes immersive worlds seem "real"? Here are some interesting insights from James Cameron, director of AVATAR, about his own question to make the immersive world of that movie believable to the audience.
Avatar: The Movie (Discover Networks)
Augmented Reality
In the innovative transmedia film The Matrix (1999), Morpheus poses the question to Neo: "What is 'real'...?"
Innovators in Augmented Reality (AR) are using new digital technologies to blur the conventional boundaries between what is 'real' and what is 'virtual'.
Augmented play:
Augmented shopping:
Remember the Terminator?
Science Fiction...becomes reality with StarkVision?!
The future: Reality...except more so.
How is "reality" different when it is..."augmented"? [Articulated Naturality]
Innovators in Augmented Reality (AR) are using new digital technologies to blur the conventional boundaries between what is 'real' and what is 'virtual'.
Augmented play:
Augmented shopping:
Remember the Terminator?
Science Fiction...becomes reality with StarkVision?!
The future: Reality...except more so.
How is "reality" different when it is..."augmented"? [Articulated Naturality]
Video Project Update and Missing Assignments
Greetings class, as we approach semester's end here are two important updates:
Video project Syllabus
I've found and tweaked three typos in the syllabus for the VIDEO PROJECT. You can view the document here on the class blog under ASSIGNMENTS:
1. The 100 points for the video itself are now evenly divided 25 points each for the four listed criteria.
2. The in-class intro to the video now correctly states that goes toward Participation points, so the overall point total now correctly adds up to 200 points.
3. I noted the preference we discussed in class for you to submit the Video project as a LINK, so you can publish the video where you choose for my review. Note that, as I mentioned in class, if you do NOT want the video to be public, please send it to me via dropbox for grading, I have an account linked to my gmail account.
Of course, students will be showing their video in class so you may consider TWEETING the link on 4/26 with our class hashtag!
Missing Assignments
All previously due Exercises up through last week's class have been graded and will be returned in class tonight. If I do not have one of these Exercises from you, you will have already received an email from me TODAY. Anyone wishing credit for assignments I do not possess must submit by Sunday 6p to get credit.
Keep up the great work on your video projects as we push to the finish of the semester, I am excited to see your work and share it with the class!
Prof M
Video project Syllabus
I've found and tweaked three typos in the syllabus for the VIDEO PROJECT. You can view the document here on the class blog under ASSIGNMENTS:
1. The 100 points for the video itself are now evenly divided 25 points each for the four listed criteria.
2. The in-class intro to the video now correctly states that goes toward Participation points, so the overall point total now correctly adds up to 200 points.
3. I noted the preference we discussed in class for you to submit the Video project as a LINK, so you can publish the video where you choose for my review. Note that, as I mentioned in class, if you do NOT want the video to be public, please send it to me via dropbox for grading, I have an account linked to my gmail account.
Of course, students will be showing their video in class so you may consider TWEETING the link on 4/26 with our class hashtag!
Missing Assignments
All previously due Exercises up through last week's class have been graded and will be returned in class tonight. If I do not have one of these Exercises from you, you will have already received an email from me TODAY. Anyone wishing credit for assignments I do not possess must submit by Sunday 6p to get credit.
Keep up the great work on your video projects as we push to the finish of the semester, I am excited to see your work and share it with the class!
Prof M
Monday, April 16, 2012
More resources for Video Project
Here are some more useful links as you continue to work on your Video Project:
Here is the upload guide on optimizing your videos for YouTube from Greg's class presentation
Here is the upload guide on optimizing your videos for YouTube from Greg's class presentation
Here's a great primer on the key basic principles of video editing that everyone should know:
Here's a more detailed guide to multi-clip edit on Final Cut (VIMEO):
And there is LOTS more in terms of topic-specific info on shooting as well as editing at Video's Video School
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Matrix: More than a Movie?
The Matrix is much more ambitious than a traditional movie, attempting to combine explorations of religious, philosophical, and political themes across multiple platforms, all while still delivering an action-adventure thriller that worls within each 'screen.'
Here's a remarkable documentary detailing the philosophical themes woven within the Matrix.
Philosophy and The Matrix
And of course, any transmedia storytelling effort with such grand ambitions will elecit parodies, and perhaps none was more detailed (and star-packed) than this from the opening of the MTV Movie Awards in 2003.
Here's a remarkable documentary detailing the philosophical themes woven within the Matrix.
Philosophy and The Matrix
And of course, any transmedia storytelling effort with such grand ambitions will elecit parodies, and perhaps none was more detailed (and star-packed) than this from the opening of the MTV Movie Awards in 2003.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Video Project Ideas and Examples
As you think about your video project, I wanted to provide some examples of videos that illustrate the range of 'production' and storytelling methods that can be used...and how video editing skills are not essential to making great digital video stories. I have also picked these because all of them, in some way, address themes covered in the DTC 375 Language, Text and Technology class...and are in line with the DTC program's mission of connect our use of Digital Technology to how we relate in our communities.
This first example is far longer than a student project would be, but illustrates that you don't have to 'shoot any video' to make a video...and uses graphical storytelling to really make the viewer think...
Did You Know 2.0
And using that same production style, a quick reprise of the very first video I showed in class, which hopefully is more impact now: The Machine is Us/ing Us
This next video was professionally shot, but you can see that the production is very simple: One person, delivering lines, and straight cuts between scenes. It's a funny video, but it also says something about Social Technology, which is one of the themes we've explored in class...
Twitter in Real Life
Here's one a really like because it is personal and presents students' view of the world. Note that the lack of "professional" camera work adds authenticity to the video:
Visions of Students Today
And let's not forget the great examples of how a REMIX can tell its own original story, using existing video source material. A number of great examples shared at last week's class - here's one of my favorites courtesy of Michael Chaudoin: LITERAL Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Trailer in which there is no "video editing" at all, but the addition of 'captions' and narration to the action totally transforms our meeting of the video
This is shot and edited very professionally, but the IDEA is simple and powerful - and again shows that fancy editing isn't needed to create a powerful message with digital media:
The Power of Words
Given the class research project on Cyberbulling, I thought this was an interesting 'visualization' of the harm of cyberbullying: Being "attacked" and "beaten" by words (ironically, identical title to above):
The Power of Words (Cyberbullying)
I hope these videos illustrate the range of production methods that can be used, and the ways in which Video can be used to say something interesting the relationship between Digital media and culture.
Prof M
This first example is far longer than a student project would be, but illustrates that you don't have to 'shoot any video' to make a video...and uses graphical storytelling to really make the viewer think...
Did You Know 2.0
And using that same production style, a quick reprise of the very first video I showed in class, which hopefully is more impact now: The Machine is Us/ing Us
This next video was professionally shot, but you can see that the production is very simple: One person, delivering lines, and straight cuts between scenes. It's a funny video, but it also says something about Social Technology, which is one of the themes we've explored in class...
Twitter in Real Life
Here's one a really like because it is personal and presents students' view of the world. Note that the lack of "professional" camera work adds authenticity to the video:
Visions of Students Today
And let's not forget the great examples of how a REMIX can tell its own original story, using existing video source material. A number of great examples shared at last week's class - here's one of my favorites courtesy of Michael Chaudoin: LITERAL Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Trailer in which there is no "video editing" at all, but the addition of 'captions' and narration to the action totally transforms our meeting of the video
This is shot and edited very professionally, but the IDEA is simple and powerful - and again shows that fancy editing isn't needed to create a powerful message with digital media:
The Power of Words
Given the class research project on Cyberbulling, I thought this was an interesting 'visualization' of the harm of cyberbullying: Being "attacked" and "beaten" by words (ironically, identical title to above):
The Power of Words (Cyberbullying)
I hope these videos illustrate the range of production methods that can be used, and the ways in which Video can be used to say something interesting the relationship between Digital media and culture.
Prof M
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