Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Sunday, March 22, 2009

animation formats

Project 3: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
Due March 31: Storyboard, footage and project work schedule - this is mandatory !!!!
Due April 7 : work-in-progress brought to class
Due April 14: final project critique

INTRO TO ANIMATION
methods:
  • inking & painting ( analog and digital)
  • objects (overhead & diorama)
  • cut-out (analog & digital)
  • rotoscoping
  • stop-motion
Create a 1-2 minute animation that reinterprets a poem.
Attention to narrative structure, discontinuity/continuity, rhythm in editing and sound, image/sound relationship.


Required
• It must be at least 1 minute in duration.
• Original audio only
• Output: QT movie, DV or animation compression
• Size: 720x480 or 320x480
Software: Options may include: Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut

Friday, March 20, 2009

Student Art Exhibition

Dear All,

Please check-out the email I sent with attached submission form for the Student Exhibition. It is an outside-curated show and also has (cash) awards. Submissions are due next week. I am asking you all to submit your works (project 1 or 2 or both) to the competition. All you need to do is copy your .mov files onto DVD. After the submission date, we will be covering how to set up DVDs to run with or without a menu- for exhibition display.

The TCNJ 2009 Student Art Exhibition will be April 8-22.
Submissions are due: March 26, 27 or 29

All students who have taken or are taking an Art Department course in the 2007-2008 or 2008-2009 academic years are eligible to apply.


Tuesday, March 3, 2009

class email contacts

Jess: adamiti2@tcnj.edu
Jeff: barnard3@tcnj.edu
James B: bernhar3@tcnj.edu
Nick: biewer2@tcnj.edu
Jen: caratol2@tcnj.edu
Sam: dewys2@tcnj.edu
Satchell:
drakes3@tcnj.edu
Phil:
grasso7@tcnj.edu
Dan:
mccaffe4@tcnj.edu
Kim:
mccaule2@tcnj.edu
Myles: oconnor8@tcnj.edu
Dennis: quinn26@tcnj.edu
Chelsea:sicilia3@tcnj.edu
James S: steven33@tcnj.edu
Al: wonesh2@tcnj.edu
James G: giblin2@tcnj.edu

Time-based Screening & Exhibition

what: An exhibition of your you-tube videos
where:
I-HOUSE (PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL HOUSE)

when: Date to be determined, should have confirmation by last week of classes


Micro-groups
I've broken you into groups to complete the following tasks for your exhibition


EXHIBITION DISPLAY
1. Determine what should be on walls to go with the video screening. Sean had shown images of the space. There's quite a bit of wall room that should be used. What kind of information and/or images should be included?
2.
Brainstorm and bring in at least 5 ideas for class to vote on.
3.
Please put together visual 2-D mock-ups to show us all (on March 17) so we have a good visual idea about your concepts.
SAM / SATCHELL / DENNIS / NICK / PHIL





EXHIBITION VISUAL ANNOUNCEMENT
1. Design image to represent the exhibition to be used on postcard and website.
2. Include a visual map or driving directions / include IHOUSE address and hours
3. Present at least 4 visual ideas to class on March 17.
DAN / JAMES S. / JEN / JAMES B.



PRESS
1
. Create a 3-4 paragraph text to be used to describe the class project.
Obviously, you don’t know at this point what everyone will be including so, rather than discuss each video, brainstorm a method to discuss what the issues are about the project and what you think is compelling and problematic about you-tube.(Stongly recommended to use assigned readings and/or research to create)
2. Present your writing to the class, March 17. Make copies so that all of us can
write feedback on them.
3. Where should press materials be submitted? Signal? Online? What other venues on campus? Please have a list of your ideas to present.

JEFF / CHELSEA / KIM / AL




COMPILE FINAL WORKS
1. Collect all final videos
2. In FCP, import all videos into one timeline and export to DVD.
OR
IN DVD Studio Pro, compile all videos onto separate tracks and loop so play sequentially.

MYLES / JAMES G / JESS