Digital Media: Time Based
Spring 2010
Art 375
Instructors: Michael Coblyn and Rosanne Retz
Cory Shea, stills from, Grave © 2008
Digital Media: Time Based is a course that explores of the creative possibilities of digital video and sound. Students are presented with the basic skills and concepts used in experimental digital video production within the context of contemporary art practice.
The composition, capturing and editing of moving imagery will be considered from formal, technical, and conceptual vantage points. Basic research areas include: pre-production, color manipulation, compositing, time remapping, optical experiments, motion control and audio production. We will investigate the theme of time (duration, slowness, speed, rhythm) and sound in narrative linear formats and work with applications such as Final Cut Pro 6, Photoshop CS4, QuickTime, Soundtrack Pro, and DVD Studio Pro 4.
Professor Retz is a Apple Certified Pro in Final Cut Pro 6 and an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS4.
Class time will involve a combination of technical presentations, discussions on pertinent issues within the context of the medium, screenings and discussions on contemporary video, work time for projects, and the screening of class projects.
There will be basic technical instruction in:
Capturing imagery and audio: via rack, camera and through appropriation of existing media.
Final Cut Pro 6 for digitizing, editing, rendering, and exporting.
Photoshop CS4 will be used to manipulate and layer images, and to incorporate still images into video projects.
Sound editing software, Soundtrack Pro, will also be available for students who wish to explore sound in more depth.
Preparing edited files for output: DVD Studio Pro 4 for DVD authoring of the completed projects.
Partial List of In-Class Screenings |
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Craig Baldwin, Tribulation 99, 1991 Bill Morrison, Decasia, 2003 Kenneth Anger, Fireworks, 1947, Eaux D'Artifice, 1953, Puce Moment, Scorpio Rising, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954 Narrative Screenings from The Movement of Images: Art and Film, Centre Pompidou, Joseph Cornell, Richard Serra, Len Lye. Eija Liisa Ahtila, Today, If 6 was 9, 1995, Underworld and Ground Control, Underworld and Ground Control, two episodes of five from Love is a Treasure, 35 mm, 55 min Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943-59, Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1945, Meditation on Violence, 1948 Jennifer Reeves, Chronic, 2003 Matt McCormick, From Tugboats to Polar Bears: The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, 2001 Bruce Baillie, Castro Street, All My Life, 2001 William Kentridge, Automatic Writing, 2003 Bill Viola, The Passing, 1991, NTSC, sound, black and white Elisabeth Subrin, Shulie, 36:30min, b/w/c, 1997. Berthold Bartosch, The Idea L'Idee / 1930-1932. Betty Tells Her Story, a film by Liane Brandon |
Frans Zwartjes, Visual Training, 1969 James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber, The Fall of the House of Usher, 1929 Robert Florey, The Life and Death of 9413--A Hollywood Extra, 1928, reportedly filmed for $97.00 Kimi Takesue, Summer of the Serpent, 2004 Helen Levitt: In the Street with Janice Loeb and James Agee, 1948 Miguel Coyula, from Five Shorts / Latin America Video Archives, 2000 Ximena Cuevas, El mundo del silencio, The Silent World , 1999 Stan Brakhage, Selections from An Anthology: Dziga Vertov. Man with a Movie Camera, 1929 Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, 1977 Peter Greenaway, from The Early Films 1, The Falls, H is for House and A Walk Through H.
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Each class member will prepare their completed pieces for internet viewing on the student work page of the Departmental of Art Web Site.
Giorgio Morandi
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