DUST TO DUST

Hi again! I decided to take the idea of one's life being transformed from beginning to end. The spark that creates life, traveling down the road of life, and then transforming into nothing but dirt. Here is the beginning screen shot of my movie. Added some music, Linkin Park! Woot Woot! and just two scenes of something written, written in chalk dust...lol well the title of my movie is Dust to Dust. Hope you all enjoy it.

Thank you

Jenn

Time Sequence Project (#1)

For this project I decided to do a miniature version of a 3-D art installation. It's just a prototype and I envision the actual pieces to be produced life-sized (larger than a human) being. The materials would consist of large vinyl panels and hollow so each piece would be light enough to be moved/shifted.

The theme of this assignment was "transformation" so I was inspired to carry that theme into the execution of the piece as well. So I decided to go for a modular art piece where each of the 8 different triangle components could be moved and shifted around to create a new experience each time it is viewed (theoretically in a large art space).

Alice in the Snow

I was planning on putting the same text captions into my audio slideshow as I'd put in my flickr album. But, when I got the music put in, I decided the captions didn't really fit with the new mood.

I started with fade-to-white transitions, thinking it would match the snow theme, but I didn't like the result about half of the time. The cross-dissolve transitions seem kind of standard, but I liked them much better.

Also, adding the music, I heard places where the tempo or slight changes fit better with one photo or another. So, I did a lot of editing after adding audio to match up images like Alice scratching at the door and the insistent notes of the song.

'Let it Snow' starring Alice

Note: I found working with the transitions in iMovie to be very frustrating. After adding transitions, any time I'd make a change to the length of an image or length of a transition, EVERYTHING around it would change. Annoying.

Assignment for February 3, 2011

Using your 5 to 15 images that you shot/created as an extension of your single composed image that explored the theme of "Transformation", created a sequence.

Think of the examples we looked as inspiration: collage/montage, handmade book, PowerPoint based animated presentation, iMovie based image sequence. These are just a few types -- feel free to mash these up or innovate another means!

Bring your completed piece to view in class.  Do make a post on the class blog with an image (can be screengrab) of your piece, but bring in any media files (video, for example) into class. We will play those locally.

In our next module we will get into outputting and exporting media content, as well as look at options for where to post.

UPDATE: please label this assignment 'sequence'

Zhang Dingnan's Assignment 2

I followed my ideas from last assignment-- 'The Process of Changing':

I took a pouch of pictures this week. Because the weather changed a lot in the past few days.

Some time it was pretty warm outside, but we've also been through the coldest day this winter. And  the heavy snow just past this early morning...

I have chosen 6 pictures of two nights, one night is calm and peaceful, the other is violent and extreme.

From those pictures, we can feel the differences of the Revere beach from different perspectives。

See if you guys can get more different feelings!

Here is the link:    Revere