f5br11 art and design: digital video skills

What research did you do?

I researched alloa tower into 2 search engines, Google and Yahoo

I searched for many images of alloa tower just to see what it looks like and details and surroundings of the area

Some textures and angles i needed to know to take pictures of for angies art class and also for the alloa tower project

also done research on video/documentary makers how they film and what they do as their job

I looked up some info on the alloa tower its history and to its present day.

Links to places on the internet about documentary makers that you found helpful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morrison_(documentary_maker)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Douglas_(documentary_maker)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watson_(documentary_film-maker)

Give 3 examples of display and/or storage methods for Digital Video.

Displaying a video/film on a projector

Storing pictures/files in the network drive that can connect to any computer (for sharing purposes)

displaying on mobile phones and ipads

Displaying video/film and any other things on t.v's or pc monitors.

storage in ipads computers or even flash usb drives

Describe the process for creation and use of digital video sequences by three artist/designers.

Charles Atlas is a video artist and film director who also does lighting and set design.

He is a pioneer in developing media-dance, also called dance for camera. Media dance is work that is created directly for the camera. While Atlas’ primary artistic medium is video, he also began to experiment with live electronic performance in 2003.

Colin cambell

Campbell's work has been exhibited internationally since the mid-1970s, including the 1980 Venice Biennale. In 1990 the Winnipeg Art Gallery organized a national touring retrospective of his videotapes (1972–90). His first film, Skin, premiered at the Festival of Festivals (Toronto International Film Festival) in 1991.

Shaun Wilson (born Melbourne, 1972) is an Australian artist and film maker.

Since 2004 he has produced over 350 video artworks under the titles ofMnemoria series, The Memory Palace series, Filmic Memorials series I-IV and Uber Memoria I-VII/Proto. These particular works that Wilson himself describes as ‘video paintings’ explore the nature of memory and place through the moving image and its subsequent effect on autobiographical memory. In doing so, Wilson has deconstructed family home movies, vintage 8mm film, and found 9mm film and from late 2006 onwards he has incorporated these filmic images with High Definition Video (HDV) to convey tensions of fractured memory.

Sadie Benning (born April 11, 1973) is a video maker, visual artist, andmusician.

She first made her name in the early 1990s as a teenage video maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera, which recorded pixelated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The Fischer-Price PXL-2000 camera used in her early works that brought her to the spotlight was a Christmas gift from her father,experimental filmmaker James Benning. At first Sadie was standoffish to the PixelVision camera. "I thought, 'This is a piece of shit. It's black-and-white. It's for kids. He'd told me I was getting this surprise. I was expecting a camcorder." The majority of her shorts combined performance, experimental narrative, handwriting, and cut-up music to explore, among other subjects, gender and sexuality.

The process that we followed to produce our film is as follows...

• Research on Alloa Tower and watching documentaries on TV to see how it is done
  
• Story-boarding angles areas and scripting
  
• Getting permissions and ready to go film
  
• Editing the video clips adding music and sorting out titles
  
• Making the final video into a quicktime movie and putting on a DVD
  

14/05/2010 Brians and angies class (problems day)

Well today in brians class i had to edit the video clips from our alloa tower project.

wasnt too hard but their are soo many clips to edit and its a pain to edit in imovie since it takes forever to load up all the video clips.

i had a few problems while editing it kept crashing/freezing on me then i had to get brian the wizz kid to fix the problem with imove because it kept saying that it cant find the files soo then he used a geeky way to find it all again using old saved reference files i think? not really sure but he then put it on the computer because it was on an external harddrive which was the problem..

Then in angies class i done some more sewing on another picture of the alloa tower but i kept having problems with the machine it kept getting jammed and all that but i did learn how to set up a sewing machine properly and ive still got to finish that piece of work

then later on in that class brian took a good quality picture of me on the sewing machine which looked great in quality i was impressed and he asked me for permission to put on his site and gave me his card with his links of pictures which i did have a look at later on the day.

12/05/2010 Gavins class

Today in gavins class i started editing the video clips of the small tv show we were making while everyone else were looking for sounds and soundFX and many other things.

It was pretty funny watching the video clips being put together but to be honest id rather edit on a more professional program such as final cut pro or sony vegas pro 9 instead of imovie 

its just to basic and simple for me and professional programs i find much easier to edit since its got allot of shortcuts and ways to do things but after all im finding it no problem editing on imovie but i still have to edit the rest of the video.

11/05/2010 Tuesday Going to Alloa tower

Starting with big johns class i walked down to alloa tower with some people from class and met big john and laura outside alloa tower and then we got all the gear ready such as cameras and tripod and went into the tower and got a tutorial around the tower and the history of the tower...

Then later on i started filming in one room about the roofs and the rebuilding of the alloa tower

i done many pan camera shots and angles it looks nice especially with the quality of the camera i was using.

 here are some pictures of us at the alloa tower

Then i walked back to college and uploaded all the clips from tape onto the mac .

After all that i went to angies class and she wanted us to try something different than mono-prints, she wanted us to sew the textures and lines of alloa tower pictures on to some cloth/sheets using a sewing machine and it worked out pretty well :)

Today in brians class

ahh well today in brians class had some tasks to do such as keeping out blog up to date and also playing around with imovie again yet again i made another pictureslide video of alloa tower and done it in a different way using some effects and different ways of the ken burns effect.
also i done my numberacy task which was quite easy to do basically stuff on cds and music and also dorritos adding up money getting a percentage also doing bargraphs and pie charts.

another week goes by 05/5/10

Starting with gavins class since we were all off on monday and tuesday due to bank holiday

anyways

we came in to our first class and no one was their i heard that that lecturer left but gavin took us and we made our jerry springer like video that we planned the week before. it went ok i didnt think it went on great or anything but i cant complain since some people are new at things but it was a good laugh i was acting in it along with flea and rab their was allot of outtakes but next week ill have to edit the video and we still need to get the advert and the weather forecast finished.