In class Fri Mar 1st

Telling Stories
- Story Dice



What are your 10 ideas for your animation? 




Stop-Motion App








Show me your Project 3

In class Wed Feb 27th

Project 4 Assigned


Film & Animation

Digital Video Resolution

Camera Angle

Eye Level

An eye-level shot is the most basic type of shot and involves simply picking up a camera or video recorder and taking a straight-on, eye-level photograph. This technique is the most common shot used by photographers, seen in many casual pictures, such as family photos or vacation shots.

High Angle

A high-angle shot involves taking a photograph from someplace above a subject at a diagonal angle. This type of angle may make a subject look smaller or even childlike.

Low Angle (Worms Eye)

A low-angle shot is the opposite of the high-angle shot. In a low-angle shot, the photographer is below the subject and takes a photograph looking up at the subject. This angle is often used to make a subject appear larger, taller or more powerful.

Bird's Eye

This type of shot is similar to the high-angle shot in that the photographer is situated above the subject. However, unlike a high-angle shot, a bird's eye shot looks straight on at a subject rather than using an angle. This type of shot is used to achieve very dramatic images.

Slanted

A slanted shot, or dutch tilt, is where the camera is tilted to the side to give the horizon a unique, angled appearance. This is a popular shot for movie stills and in magazines as it portrays a hip, edgy feeling in the photograph

Camera Movement

Camera Point of View (POV)

Close-Ups
A close-up (abbreviated "CU") is when the camera focuses on just one character's face or other part of him, taking up the entire frame. These shots are used often when a character is talking, because it puts the viewer in an almost face-to-face context. When the camera zooms directly into part of a person's face or body, so that the frame shows nothing but his body, this is an extreme close-up, or ECU. Going in the opposite direction, a medium close-up (MCU) is halfway between a standard CU and a mid-shot--which shows part of the scene and the subject.

Wide Shots
Wide Shots Abbreviated (WS) give a great view of the entire area your subject is standing in, and you can see the person's entire body against the backdrop of his setting. As the camera zooms out, making the person almost unrecognizable but giving a good view of the entire area, it becomes a VWS, or very wide shot. Finally, an extreme wide shot (EWS) takes the camera out so that you can't even see the subject, but gives the viewer a clear picture of where the viewer is supposed to be--these are generally used as establishing shots. VWS are generally taken from cranes, so they're sometimes called crane shots, and EWS can be taken from helicopters and called aerial shots.

Multiple People Shots.
Conversations between two people require a special camera angle to capture the intimacy of the conversations. A two shot (TS) is the most common way to show conversation: place both subjects in the same mid-shot. The next most familiar style is the over-the-shoulder shot, or OSS, which looks at the talking subject from the listener's perspective, quite literally over his shoulder. Some camera operators also set up the noddy shot, which is most common in interviews, and is taken from the perspective of the interviewee.

POV
The first-person perspective is a useful way to put the audience almost directly in the character's shoes. The POV shot is pretty much what the character would see--as if she is actually holding the camera herself. POV, meaning point-of-view, shots are often used to heighten the intensity of a scenario.

Weather Shots
If the subject is the weather itself, it is referred to as a weather shot. These images give the viewer a moment's reprieve from the action or drama of the film as well as establishing what's going on in the world around them. If the weather is wet and rainy, that will affect the mood of the film overall; a bright, shiny day on the other hand lightens the mood.

Camera Movement
A director may choose to move action along by telling the story as a series of cuts, going from one shot to another, or they may decide to move the camera with the action. Moving the camera often takes a great deal of time, and makes the action seem slower, as it takes several second for a moving camera shot to be effective, when the same information may be placed on screen in a series of fast cuts. Not only must the style of movement be chosen, but the method of actually moving the camera must be selected too. There are seven basic methods:

1. Pans
A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned, often to follow a moving object which is kept in the middle of the frame.

2. Tilts
A movement which scans a scene vertically, otherwise similar to a pan.

3. Dolly Shots
Sometimes called TRUCKING or TRACKING shots. The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action, generally following a moving figure or object. Complicated dolly shots will involve a track being laid on set for the camera to follow, hence the name. The camera might be mounted on a car, a plane, or even a shopping trolley (good method for independent film-makers looking to save a few dollars). A dolly shot may be a good way of portraying movement, the journey of a character for instance, or for moving from a long shot to a close-up, gradually focusing the audience on a particular object or character.

4. Hand-held shots
The hand-held movie camera first saw widespread use during World War II, when news reporters took their windup Arriflexes and Eyemos into the heat of battle, producing some of the most arresting footage of the twentieth century. After the war, it took a while for commercially produced movies to catch up, and documentary makers led the way, demanding the production of smaller, lighter cameras that could be moved in and out of a scene with speed, producing a "fly-on-the-wall" effect.This aesthetic took a while to catch on with mainstream Hollywood, as it gives a jerky, ragged effect, totally at odds with the organized smoothness of a dolly shot. The Steadicam (a heavy contraption which is attached a camera to an operator by a harness. The camera is stabilized so it moves independently) was debuted in Marathon Man (1976), bringing a new smoothness to hand held camera movement and has been used to great effect in movies and TV shows ever since. No "walk and talk" sequence would be complete without one. Hand held cameras denote a certain kind of gritty realism, and they can make the audience feel as though they are part of a scene, rather than viewing it from a detached, frozen position.

5. Crane Shots
Basically, dolly-shots-in-the-air. A crane (or jib), is a large, heavy piece of equipment, but is a useful way of moving a camera - it can move up, down, left, right, swooping in on action or moving diagonally out of it. The camera operator and camera are counter-balanced by a heavy weight, and trust their safety to a skilled crane/jib operator.

6. Zoom Lenses
A zoom lens contains a mechanism that changes the magnification of an image. On a still camera, this means that the photographer can get a 'close up' shot while still being some distance from the subject. A video zoom lens can change the position of the audience, either very quickly (a smash zoom) or slowly, without moving the camera an inch, thus saving a lot of time and trouble. The drawbacks to zoom use include the fact that while a dolly shot involves a steady movement similar to the focusing change in the human eye, the zoom lens tends to be jerky (unless used very slowly) and to distort an image, making objects appear closer together than they really are. Zoom lenses are also drastically over-used by many directors (including those holding palmcorders), who try to give the impression of movement and excitement in a scene where it does not exist. Use with caution - and a tripod!

7. The Aerial Shot
An exciting variation of a crane shot, usually taken from a helicopter. This is often used at the beginning of a film, in order to establish setting and movement. A helicopter is like a particularly flexible sort of crane - it can go anywhere, keep up with anything, move in and out of a scene, and convey real drama and exhilaration — so long as you don't need to get too close to your actors or use location sound with the shots.

Work on Projects!





For Mon March 4th's class
Generate 10 ideas for your animation, due at the beginning of class!

In class Mon Feb 25th

Finish Crit of Proj 2

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All about time!

Stop Motion Animation
- individual photographs taken and displayed sequentially and continuously in one space.



Ways to shoot a stop-motion animation

* Camera moves through space

* People move in front of camera

* You move objects in front of the camera
* Any of the above three together

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We will be using the "Stopmotion" app for Project 4. You can download the app for Android or iOS.




Project 3:
- show JOe your images on Adobe Capture CC
- pick the best image for processing

In class Fri Feb 21st

Finish Critique Project 2

Vocabulary:

What we are looking at:

- Composition (placement of visual elements in 2d space...positive & negative space, rule of thirds)

- Image - subject matter

- Line

- Shape

- Form

- Value

- Space; Positive & Negative

- Color

- Texture

- Scale

- Rhythm

- Balance

- Dominance & Emphasis

- Proportion

- Gradation

- Harmony

- Variety

- Movement

Each of these elements becomes a "signifier" to the viewer. This means from these visual elements we will try to make sense of the image. 

Making images for project 3
* This is an exploration project. You want to try many different types of images and pick the one that has the best chance of working on the c-n-c router and is the most interesting and aesthetically pleasing. Ultimately we are limited to a 1/16" line and a solid black and white image. Line drawings work great, photo realism not so much.


You can create the imagery for this project in various ways:
1. You can use Adobe Photoshop and alter images you photograph or find online. Take a look at the "Threshold" adjustment.

2. You can draw an image and translate using Adobe Capture CC. If you do this mark out a 6x6" square and draw using a traditional Sharpie.  

3. Use Adobe Capture CC and the "shape" tool to create and image.
-If you are only using Adobe Capture you will need to try photographing lots of different subject matter under various lighting conditions.

In class wed Feb 19th

Had in your files for Project 2 at the beginning of class on your USB thumbdrive.


Vocabulary:

What we are looking at:

- Composition (placement of visual elements in 2d space...positive & negative space, rule of thirds)

- Image - subject matter

- Line

- Shape

- Form

- Value

- Space; Positive & Negative

- Color

- Texture

- Scale

- Rhythm

- Balance

- Dominance & Emphasis

- Proportion

- Gradation

- Harmony

- Variety

- Movement

Each of these elements becomes a "signifier" to the viewer. Which means from these visual elements we will try to make sense of the image. 

Critique Project 2



Making images for project 3
* This is an exploration project. You want to try many different types of images and pick the one that has the best chance of working on the c-n-c router and is the most interesting and aesthetically pleasing. Ultimately we are limited to a 1/16" line and a solid black and white image. Line drawings work great, photo realism not so much.


You can create the imagery for this project in various ways:
1. You can use Adobe Photoshop and alter images you photograph or find online. Take a look at the "Threshold" adjustment.

2. You can draw an image and translate using Adobe Capture CC. If you do this mark out a 6x6" square and draw using a traditional Sharpie.  

3. Use Adobe Capture CC and the "shape" tool to create and image.
-If you are only using Adobe Capture you will need to try photographing lots of different subject matter under various lighting conditions.

In class Mon Feb 18th

Resizing images in Photoshop

* Situation: you are applying for a grant or show and the application states that images are required to be1920 pixels on the largest size.
? How can you find out the current size of you image?
? How can you change the size of your image?

Go to Image --> Image Size

From this window you can see the images current size in inches, pixels, mm, or cm. You change the size and/or resolution in this window. You can also lock the proportions to keep your images from looking distorted.  


Saving Files in Photoshop

File Types
PSD - Working File: specific uncompresses file type which contains all the images information
JPEG - Finished File: universal compressed file type

All files in Photoshop need to be "flattened" before they can be saved as a JPEG.




Digital C-n-C router

Project 3 Assigned

Hand in Project 2 at the end of class on your USB thumb drive. 

In class Fri Feb 15th

Work on Projects & Assignments

In class Wed Feb 13th

Photoshop Day 2

Selection Tools
- making a selection
- cut, copy, paste

Move Tool

Clone Stamp

Colors

Gradient

Smug Tool

Type Tool

Vector Tools


Work on Projects


Check Assignment 1

ATC walk through

1) create a new 2.5" x 3.5" document at 180 dpi (resolution) --> File New

2) use "save as" to save the document 8 times as "temp-1.psd", "temp-2.psd", "temp-3.psd".....ect

3) find images on the internet and save them to your desktop. *Make sure to use the advanced search function to search for "Large" Images only

4) open your images in Photoshop and "Copy" and "Paste" them into your Template file.

5) move and alter your layers
----- Try "erasing", changing the "mode" of a layer, "selecting" and "deleting", using "adjustments" and "filters"

6) when finished save the file as a .PSD 

In class Mon Feb 11th

Check Assignment 1


Make sure you email me your blogs web address.

Creating & Manipulating Images in Photoshop

- Checkin' out the program
--- Tool Bar
- Move Tool
- Selection Tools
- Drawing Tools


Menu
File -- New / Open / Save / Save As
Image -- Image Size / Canvas Size / Canvas Rotation


DPI - Dots Per Inch
- 72 dpi screen resolution *
- 180 dpi lowest possible printing resolution
- 240-360 dpi good printing resolution
- 600-1200 dpi super high resolution

* Retina style displays have much higher resolutions then 72 dpi


Layers
- new layers
- layer visibility
- blend modes
- opacity
- changing layer position
- layer effects

This week we start the blog 3 manipulated images a week of cats saved and uploaded, labeled with language associated with "dogs"



Project 2 Assigned - Due Wed Feb 18th at the end of class

ATC walk through

1) create a new 2.5" x 3.5" document at 180 dpi (resolution) --> File New

2) use "save as" to save the document 8 times as "temp-1.psd", "temp-2.psd", "temp-3.psd".....ect

3) find images on the internet and save them to your desktop. *Make sure to use the advanced search function to search for "Large" Images only

4) open your images in Photoshop and "Copy" and "Paste" them into your Template file.

5) move and alter your layers
----- Try "erasing", changing the "mode" of a layer, "selecting" and "deleting", using "adjustments" and "filters"

6) when finished save the file as a .PSD 

(These files will need to be "Flattened" to be saved as the final JPEG file.)


Work on Projects

In Class Fri Feb 8th

Check out your blogs:
Making a post:
-Text
-Link
-Image
-Video


Project 1 - Assigned


Aspects of Virtuality

* what are the qualities of virtual space? what does it mean to be virtual?

* where do we see virtual space overlap society?



VR to help exten our understanding

Virtual Continuum

The Virtuality Continuum is a phrase used to describe a concept that there is a continuous scale ranging between the completely virtual, a Virtual Reality, and the completely real:Reality. The reality-virtuality continuum therefore encompasses all possible variations and compositions of real and virtual objects. The concept was first introduced by Paul Milgram.

Reality<--------------->Virtual Reality

The area between the two extremes, where both the real and the virtual are mixed, is the so-called Mixed reality. This in turn is said to consist of both Augmented Reality, where the virtual augments the real, and Augmented virtuality, where the real augments the virtual.

Reality    Augmented Virtuality    Augmented Reality   Virtual Reality

Human   Cyborg       Android         Robot

Mann's Continuum includes the level of degrees of mediation.

M = level of mediation

R = reality

V = virtual reality

Augmented Reality

Microsoft Hololens

Augmented Virtual Reality

Oculus Rift

Google Cardboard

Mediated Reality

Virtuality and culture

In class Wed Feb 6th

Virtual Space:

The Internet, first wave

They Rule

Jackson Pollack

the Sistine Chapel

In B flat

Lost in Translation




The Social Web, Second Wave

What is the social web?

The social web has become the Semantic web (3rd generation).



Popular Web Applications

- Smug Mug, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket

- Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, WordPress

- Youtube, Sidereel, Vimeo

- Soundcloud, Indaba

- Fire Alpaca, Sumo Paint

- Facebook, Myspace

- dropbox

3rd Wave the semantic web
What is the Semantic web?

Here is what WC3 the originators of the idea of the semantic web have to say.



Apps are basically web applications (like a website) but many apps like Lyft, Uber, & AirBnB take advantage of the a database driven web.



iPhone/iPad Applications

- Pure, ProCam XL, Classic Toy, Pixlromantic, Instagram - Camera Apps

- VSCO, Instagram, Snap Chat - Social Camera Apps 

- Tumblr, Twitter - Social Blog Apps

- Hyperlapse - Social Video Apps

- Stop Motion - Stopmotion animation App

- Horizon - Video Camera App

- PixlrExpress+, Aviary - Photo/Image manipulation Apps

- Pic Collage - Image layout

- Adobe Ideas, Paper, Inkpad - Digital drawing, painting, illustration Apps

- Makerbot PrintShop, 123D Sculpt, 123D Design - 3d modeling Apps

- Voice Dictation - Hate writing papers?





Assignment 1: Create two great examples of each of the following in Adobe Capture CC! Save them to your cellphones camera roll. I will come around to look at the 10 images on friday!

- Materials

- Type

- Shapes
- Colors
- Patterns
- Brushes



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Anything can become an extension of self 

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Project 1 Assigned

Hook up Blogger and make your first post!

Work on Project!

In class Mon Feb 4th

Welcome to ART 116 Time & Virtual Space

THRU YOU

What is this class about?

It is an overview on creating art considering the 4th & 5th dimensions.

Is this a 'computer class'?

No. Although we will definitely be using your laptops for class, this course focuses on how ALL art mediums interact with these two different dimensions.

* this area of art crosses over many areas so therefore has many names. some of the more popular names are: Digital Art, Inter-Media, Hybrid Media, Multi-Media & Digital Media.

Can you name an art medium that has not intersected with the computer?

How does this class work?

Information for this class will come through this blog. You are expected to visit it frequently. I generally update the blog within 12 hours of class. 

The blog contains all the information related to the class including links to examples, a post on what will be covered each class, the syllabus, project details and links to useful websites.

Lets take a look at this site.

Why do I use these websites for class?

What websites/apps do you frequent most.
 - what do each of these websites/Apps do for you? What communication problem are they solving?




Apps for creativity


Adobe Capture CC 
- Adobe capture is an app that can utilize your smartphone's camera to create a variety of useful visual materials from 3d textures to vector graphics.

Assignment 1, part 1 - Download Adobe Capture CC on your smartphone and make an Adobe account name and password. Lets test it out.

Would you play Social Roulette?

Fun example stopmotion animation

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