Name _____________________

ARTDES 222: TMP Video VII
Fall 2005
Instructor: Prof. Heidi Kumao

FINAL PROJECT

Draft due Thurs. Dec. 8
Final Version due Tuesday Dec. 13, 2005
1 VIDEO, 1-7 mins. in length
Copied to: one data DVD and one i-DVD
**Note: please have your piece cued on your mini-dv cassette and ready to show

This project should reflect the variety of skills and approaches discussed in class and use video as an ART tool. No Music videos allowed. No commercial music allowed.

Requirements:
-Color Bars and tone followed by countdown
-Titles and Credits: title of piece, names of contributors, date/year completed, credit to School of Art and Design, University of Michigan. Make sure all text is on screen for at least 5 seconds. Sans Serif font recommended. Titles should fall within "title safe" guide on video screen.
-white balanced footage (appropriate color balance)
-attention to light levels (is your subject appropriately lit?)
-audible audio levels (can we comprehend what we are hearing? is the sound distorted because it's too loud?)
-appropriate choices for edits and effects (How can effects and edits strengthen the concept of your piece?)

Some examples, ideas, and approaches: (OR MAKE UP YOUR OWN!)
-Experimental documentary - a documentary that questions traditional documentary forms of "truth"
-Video Performance: creating an event, artwork, performative activity strictly for the camera
-Video Journal: using the camera as your confidante to document an event, life, etc. over time
-Video portrait: create a portrait of a person using moving images and TIME
-Formalist/structuralist video: the creation of a work using strict rules and boundaries (e.g. editing every 4th frame, recording 24 hours for some specific reason...)
-Appropriation and recontextualization: using the camera's VCR to record and the computer to re-edit material to change its original meaning
-Juxtaposition to create new meaning: weave a new narrative by putting unrelated images and sounds next to one another VISUALLY or after one another in time
-Use photographic stills with moving images
-Record the audio first and figure out the appropriate image matches for the audio (eg. tv show audio with personal video)
-Interviews--gathering information from the public, pose a question, receive many answers
-Video as observation (is it "objective?" "neutral?")
-Animation: creation of a piece from a sequence of still images
-"News:" create your own commentary or reaction to mainstream broadcasts, point the camera at something it doesn't normally point to
-Create a video "letter"
-Use the camera as an eye, a hand, a mouth, an ear, a microscope, a telescope
-Create a video "essay" through the juxtaposition of still images (like words strung together to make a sentence, pictures viewed in a certain order create a narrative, however abstract)
-Record a real time event or conversation
-Find out what happens when you bring a camera into your everyday life
-Create a video "poem"
-Visual abstraction: transform ordinary objects through how you shoot them
-Painting in motion

Be prepared to introduce your project to the class. Can you contextualize your work within the history and current trends of video art? What are your biggest influences? Something you viewed in class? on the web? other?
Did you incorporate changes suggested during critiques? why or why not?

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