Theory: 2

28th October Tuesday
Cristina Bogdan

Pre-war Avant-garde Cinema 

Massive change in Art

First Photograph come to life

 

High Art 

• Aimed at wealthy high society
• Has detail, intricacies
• Would reflect high society lifestyle
• Sometimes buyer's would be portrayed in the paintings
• Mainly involves people

 At the Hypnotist above film

This film is first to use and invent the use of depth.

Modernism - points out that paintings are literally paint on canvas, and are not a reproduction of live, separating it from photographs.

this is called endless Column





Abstract Cinema

The Death of Marat painting below


 Requim by Mozart soundtrack

 Battleship of Potemkin an Famous film

Man with a Camera film below and is about the day in the life of an Camera Operator

Theory:1

Tuesday 21st Oct 2014

Cristina Bogdan

HISTORY OF RT AND CINEMA IN THE 20th and 21st CENTURY

Pre- modernism to modernism
 painting called Decadence of Rome 1847
 

Monet Impressionist


From modernism to post moderist

Jackson Pollock


minimalist

conceptual art
land art
pop art
post conceptual art
young british artists

DIY Workshop

24th October Friday
Dry Workshop - Induction

Jim Casey

This workshop was Jim introducing us how to use the nessessary equipment needed to building sets in studios. After the induction on health and safety and the safety procedures of the machines we got a chance to use the machines and made small jigsaws after having done this we were safely inducted and were able to use the machines properly and are allowed to use them for future preferences.

we made this jigsaw, it doenst look great but it was just a quick task which we had to do to be inducted into using the woodshop. i enjoyed this induction and quickly familiarised nyself with these equipment as i have used them before back during school days. 

Maps & Journeys

Innovation & Interference 

After the project approval on the 23rd October, Thursday,  I was told to come up with a meaning behind my idea rather then just it being a video, having thought about it a lot I still couldn't come up with a meaning, so really thinking about it, I had another idea which came to mind and that was to use art i.e. an installation piece involving sculpture.

NEW IDEA FINAL

So i thought about sculpture and how this would be related to maps and journeys, so the idea that came to mind was this, I would explore the journey of a how a sculpture is made and how after a sculpture is made its gone to be used in films, being put up in exhibitions for people to look at. so the way i would do this is having spoke to the fine art department with their help I would make a sculpture of a body still need to think about weather to use my own body or someone's else or a mannequin, i would take a series of photos of the sculpture being made and these photos will document the process and journey of a sculpture being created, after this is made I will then use these photos, put them into series of posters and these posters will be in the style of new science magazines covers inspired, the reason the posters will be in this style is to represent how sculptures after being made their journeys continue on in films or gallery's that is why the style will be the style that i have chosen within these series it the final poster this style will be different because it will be in the style of an actual film type poster however this last one will be different because I will use the actual sculpture within this poster and this will be done by the sculpture being hung or maybe placed over the poster as these posters will projected on to the wall.

New science magazines:

below is how the final poster/ sculpture will be displayed.

Revised Learning Agreement

DIGITAL FILM SCREEN ARTS.					YEAR: 2
NAME:  SHAHID ABU				DATE: 27/10/14
LEARNING AGREEMENT PROFORMA.			Deadline for submission: 30/10/14
GROUP PRODUCTION SOLO PRODUCTION	TITLE  Maps & journey’s		UNIT CREDIT
Information: - This form is a basic list of requirements.  You should write as much as you need to describe what you intend to undertake and methods employed to achieve this work.
DESCRIPTION: (You should describe in detail here the work you intend to undertake in fulfilment of the module’s Aims and Learning Outcomes. In doing this you will need to make reference to the module descriptor in the Programme Handbook)
For this new revised idea I intend to do an installation piece and will be undertaking A3  of the unit descriptor and will develop my technical, creative and aesthetic possibilities of my chosen medium and will research and develop skills in project planning A4 of the unit descriptor
RESEARCH: Academic reference material, sources and contextual materials
Library Going back to the screenings we had with Rosie looking at artists and she had shown us. The materials we exhibited from the librarians
SKILLS AND RESOURCES: Identify the technical and networking skills you will need to develop and the resources you intend to use
*   LYNDA.COM       Illustrator       Photoshop       Art medium sculpting
WORK PLAN/TIMETABLE: Self directed study times, and will be making tutorials now and again for feedback to further develop my idea, Weekends taking time off work.
STUDENT SIGN: SHAHID ABU		DATE:
TUTOR APPROVAL:
TUTOR SIGNED:		DATE:

Avid

I will go through these exercises at home and will doing tutorials to keep my mind afresh and so i can get the hang of the software.


Using the Avid books that we brought for this training we went through the first three lessons of the avid book by Bryan Castle Jr.

Lesson One:

This first lesson  we learnt the basics of avid, such as launching the media composer, understanding how the interface is arranged and what it consists of, creating and saving projects, working with bins and to organize and edit bins.
found this first lesson easy and kept track most times.

Lesson Two:

This second lesson was about the basics of avid, building sequences, using smart tools, splicing clips, adding narration with the overwrite tool and adjusting the sequences audio.
In this lesson we created a rough edit of a sequence and I found this a bit tricky at some points but nonetheless was ok with.

Lesson Three:

This lesson we dealt with refining an edit and learnt how to delete from the timeline, moving timeline
segments, changing the shots in the sequence and length of timeline segments.
I found this particular lesson again a bit tricky but was ok with, apart from the audio adjusting and the edit refining which I found challenging however when redoing this again I understood it more and helped me gain more knowledge but will keep going over this so I can gain a better understanding of the software for future projects.


keyboard used for avid shortcuts

Avid Interface/layout

Source monitor on left/ record monitor on right

key objects

 
  marking clips/shortcuts                                   



From lesson 1 to 3 we have covered

• Basic User Interface
• Creating a Project
• Importing Media / Bins
• Organising Media
• Saving
• Creating a Sequence
• Basic Editing Funcions / Keyboard Shortcuts
• Basic Audio
• Trimming

These are all covered in Lessons 1 till 3 in the "Media Composer Editing Essentials" book.


These are the basic shortcuts for easier access

• J, K and L = Backwards, Pause, Play (hitting the key twice will go in to fast motion)
• Spacebar = Play & Pause
• I, O = mark In, mark Out
• V = Splice
• B = Overwrite
• Left, Right or 3,4 = Skip by one frame backwards, forwards.
• M, comma, period, / = Nudge Clip
• T = Mark Clip
• Z, X = Extract, Lift

At  home i have been doing  the lessons so i can get a better knowledge of the software
but have a lot to work on if i want to pass the Avid exam and need to learn how to solve technical faults on my own. below is my work from which i have been on from home but is offline and this is one of he problems i need to solve if i want to move forward.

This is the video result from the first three lessons, the edit at some points maybe off a bit, in which case i need refine my editing skills by regularly using avid on daily basis.