mystery workshop response

This was an interesting workshop. I had never worked with 3D before and it was nice to have some experience with it. I had researched it and knew how it was done for the larger productions with the polarization. The blue and red filter method that we used I tend not to like very much because of the loss of color and image quality. But that extra depth was actually quite cool. For the shoot, I tried to bring as many items As I thought I could that would give abrupt depth changes. The best thing we used was the rolling chair, skateboard, and the Heely's I wore. We didn't have a story plan or anything just to play with the depth as much as possible. Throwing the baseball bat in was a nice touch though. It gave the film a good event to center on. When the film was finally done, the moments when the three of us were rolling past each other were the best moments of the 3D effect. The Frisbee was a fail. It was cool to know how to do the 3D on my own. It wasn't all that difficult to do. Its not expensive to do, you just need two cameras. And I mean, I you can just move the single image over a little bit, which is i guess how they convert non 3D films into 3D. It was fun making the glasses too. It's nice to have them around for future projects. I wish that I would have been more involved in what we did to it on the computer. I don't think I could do it without any guidance. It would be really nice to have a written guide of some kind for future reference if I wanted to do another 3D project. It was very cool, and I can't wait to see it on the big screen. I think it will be alot better than on the computer screen.

6by1 part deux

If I were to design a second six by one I would probably assign a time lapse photography assignment in the first week and give the class all semester to work on it. they could condense footage from the entire semester or just from a week or a day. It wouldn't matter which route they took only that it be done by the last class. I would also probably make it more like a 2 minute film-making class. One because I think 6 by 2 sounds cooler and because I think we could have more ambitious projects with two minutes to play with. I would also throw in some classical animation for the students to try, because we never touched on it in six by one. I think I would make another rhythmic edit project, but with this one the order of the cuts be up to the filmmaker only that there would be no cuts longer than 30 frames. Also some 5, 10, 15, and 20 frame cuts in the film. There would be a project where the students would have to make a film using still pictures that they find on the internet. The other projects would be strictly film-based. Films would be made on 16mm, super 8mm, and 8mm. There would be specific dates along the way when these would be worked on. A development day, a screen day, a manipulation day, a cut day, and then a final screening day. A multi-media project would be fun, students would have to generate a performance. Film could be used, but other elements would be required to add into the performance. Live actors, light shows, live musical accompaniment. Something that would bring the process of art making to the forefront of the event. Another project would have to use the flicker effect.

The Yes Men and Recycled footage

The way that the yes men took the George Bush and WTO websites and spun them to make them express what they believe the organizations were really about was much like the way that someone takes old footage and re-contextualizes it. Actually all of their portrayals of the WTO are alot like the re-contextualized footage from things like T.V. sheriff and the trailbuddies. The main difference being they are not using actual footage, they are performing the actions of the a live presenter of facts and skewing them. Instead of the artists having to take what the presenter already performed and making it into something else. They cut out the middle man and make the performance what they would intend it to be. They become the presenter and create the performance.