Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Project #3 - A Note About Process

For Project #3, you will need to think about all the pieces of the "puzzle":

1) Use of found footage/filmed footage and sound
2) The editing techniques
3) How to export - As explained in class, 720 x 480 or 640 x 480 size (depending on the aspect ratio of your footage) using the H.264 compression codec (via "Share" > "Quicktime" in iMovie)
4) How to upload - Use YouTube link or the "Add Video" icon in your blog (if it is available, looks like the image below)

Project #2 Grades

Hi Class - Your grades are posted below.

I met with many of you to discuss the direction of your work on Monday towards the end of class. This was a good way to hear what you were thinking, provide direction and help you refine your ideas. For those of you I did not get to give feedback to, the success of this project can be boiled down to a few key things, and will apply to the other projects as well:

1) Most obvious, did you meet all the requirements of the project as outlined in the syllabus?
2) Evidence that you spent time staging/taking/working with/thinking about the images
3) Your images should be stylistically/formally/technically consistent and what the viewer sees should clearly relate back to your overall concept/theme for this course
4) Most importantly, and most difficult, do your images impart to the viewer some sort of emotional or intellectual quality that manages to go beyond the "issue" at hand.

Please keep in mind this last point while executing Projects #3 + #4.