Studio Activities – week 9, Session B

strong>Project 4 probes and what the group plans to produce should be in place to proceed with making the prototype. If there is still confusion then blog entries should be produced for discussion in the week 9 – Session B studio.

With only 4 weeks to go until submissions groups should be starting with the production of their prototype. This could be planning (drawings) on paper, schematic diagrams (digital), wireframes and some preliminary tests and explorations. All this material is valuable in regards to sharing with the studio group for feedback.

Time in this studio session can also be used for group progress discussion, planning and making.

Portfolio project

The aim is to review the progress on this project – to provide an indication of how students are progressing towards the submission in week 13. This involves:

i. Sharing as a group what people have been doing on their blogs.
ii. Raising questions about what is expected in relation to the assessment.
ii. Devising a list of things that could be done to improve this project for assessment

Studio – week 7

Session A

These are the things that are required from the Friday discussion.

1. One group email sent to me which contains a link/URL to a blog entry that finalises a draft of theprobe you will use to guide your Project Three sketches. Included in this blog entry is an additional link to your 3 things of interest that you produced in week 6. (please note all these requested blog entries are part of your Portfolio task).

2. With time short until Project Three is due for presentation and assessment – Friday April 24, 10.30 am. By Monday your group should have devised list of sketches to make.

Ideally your group would have started to make some sketches to explore the viability of your probe and whether your probe provides the scope you need to make multiple sketches. I encourage you to bring any developments you have to the studio for feedback and critique.

It is crucial at this point that you check that you are on track with your understanding of Project Three and what is required for assessment.

The upcoming presentation criteria for week 7 & 8 will be workshopped and clarified.

Session B

The main focus of Session B in wk 7 is the submission and presentation of your Project Three outcomes, for preliminary assessment.

Also, this studio session will be used to prepare material for the mid-semester panel review in Session A, wk 8.

The Project Three presentation criteria is available in this blog entry. The presentation has been designed around what is required for the wk 8 mid-semester critique. The idea is to use this session and these presentations to prepare to get the most out of the panel critique.

PORTFOLIO reflections

In regards to provided reflection exercises for the 20% PORTFOLIO brief. From week 4 you are expected to complete a reflection as a blog entry after each studio session. This makes two reflections (blog entries) per week in addition to other prescribed exercises and your own self-initiated entries. I will be looking for these 2 x weekly studio reflections in the assessment of the PORTFOLIO as a whole and be interested in iterative developments across the entries.

Work with the 4 Rs of reflection as a means to frame to these reflections which will be covered in week 4.

Concept statement

Here is a template for the concept statement for PROJECT TWO:

Our group has chosen the online video example ….X (link). If we contextualise this work/project in relation to the studio activities so far (the mindmapping and personal case studies) it would be placed in the genre ….X of online video practice. We will produce a number of sketches which analyse the narrative/non-narrative form of this online video practice. Each of these sketches will focus on different aspects of the work/project as a way to understand how it has been made and how relations have been formed between shots to create a narrative/non-narrative structure.

Example in practice:

Our group has chosen the online video example @55uhz (link). If we contextualise this work/project in relation to the studio activities so far (the mindmapping and personal case studies) it would be placed in the genre of experimental online video practice. We will produce a number of sketches which analyse the narrative/non-narrative form of this online video practice. Each of these sketches will focus on different aspects of the work/project as a way to understand how it has been made and how relations have been formed between shots to create a narrative/non-narrative structure.

This is a list of ideas that will be used to inform our sketches. Background on the @55uhz project and previous post supporting this analysis:

1. A sampling approach that records an activity at 000555 frames per second in line with the @55uhz project. The samples are presented in a linear format posted to Vimeo. Text may be included on each sample of video that identifies the time of sampling.

2. “Flipbook” video – what could this look like? An idea would be to make an experiment that is posted to Vine as 6 second loops in regards to getting a flipbook animation feel.

3. A work that is recorded over a period of week before submission. For instance the same activity recorded as a sample of an every day activity for seven days, presented in a linear video, with text time/date like is used in digital photography.

4. The blank space between frames that is experienced in cinematic screening. How can this blank space be emphasised in a work? A frame then an extended black space then a frame etc.

5. A one frame time-based video work with audio track. This sketch works with the idea of a film frame frozen or extracted as a still frame (a photographic image) within a set duration of time. I could experiment with sound and no sound added to the image.

6. A sketch that works with a audiovisual service or tool. This project uses programming to use twitter for a different purpose. What service or tool could work with in regards to exploring how it could be used differently from what was intended? In this case twitter is predominately text based being used for filmic type purposes. What could I do with twitter or another text tool without working with programming?

7. Found footage – this work reuses found footage. How can I break up some found footage I have or material from a copyright free website? i.e. https://archive.org/details/movies – and create a non-narrative out of that footage? In the readings Bassett proposes an “anti-narrative” form – how could I edit this footage into a anti-narrative?

8. @55uhz makes the original film highly granular. This means it breaks the film up into separate independent parts that are a single frame in duration (a film still). What would happen if I took a video activity and broke it into separate granules and then published those granules in a service or tool?

9. From no. 8 – What would happen if they were 2 second loops rather than still frames?

10. From no. 9- What would happen if I published the sampled stills from my found footage in a tool like cowbird.

Each one of these sketches would be posted in the groups’ blogs with reflection notes underneath. These notes would reflect on the discoveries made and what was learnt about the case study @55uhz in relation to the narrative/non-narrative form of that work. These reflections and sketches would be used to write up the presentation.

Wk 4 – Session A & B

Session A (2 hrs)

Concept statement overview
Review new group sketches for feedback and review

Workshop submission process via the google folders/docs
Workshop presentation framework for Friday

Session B (3 hrs)

Prepare submissions with teacher feedback
weekly PORTFOLIO reflections
presentations
PROJECT TWO – due for submission
PROJECT TWO group presentations for assessment
PROJECT THREE presentation workshop (go over next brief and look at what is required and what is coming up..)

Wk 3 – Session B

The studio activities for the Wk 3, (3hrs)

T-aid photos and documentation

Check all students are subscribed in the sidebar of blog (so they get entires automatically)

Ask questions from a blog post – responses written by me or others as comments

View final PROJECT ONE CASE studies.

Reflection workshop for PORTFOLIO brief.

Students in groups (pairs) will present their concept statements and first sketches for feedback and workshopping.