TIMETABLE
EDIT SUITE = SKUNK WORKS = VIDEO/SOUND/MOBILE-PC/LIVE VIDEO
BRAINS TRUST = VIEWING ROOM = NARRATIVE
LUX BOX = CONTROL ROOM = LIGHT
STUDIO = STUDIO = PROJECTION MAPPING
Week 7
TUESDAY
9.30 - General Introduction in Studio - all students - 1 hour
10.30 - Skunk Works - Rob - Sound
10.30 - Brains Trust - Tim - Narrative
10.30 - Studio - Michael - Projection Mapping
12.00 - Skunk Works - Michael - Live Video Performance
12.00 - Lux Box - Rob - Light
12.00 - Brains Trust - Tim - Mobile/Computer
1.30 - Skunk Works - Tim - Video
3pm - General work on project till end of day
Thursday
9-11.30 work on project
11.30-1.30 teamleaders' meeting (Tim’s Office)
2-6 work on project
Week 8
Tuesday
9-1 work on project
1-3 teamleaders' meeting (Tim’s Office)
3-6 work on project
Thursday
9-1 work on project
2-4 tech rehearsal
5-6 performance
LIGHT (5)
Faye Sheffield
Poppy Bunce
Charlotte Mills
Nicola Hancox
Lewis Malkin
LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE (6)
Laura Deffense
Rosalie Mccann
EmerMcdaid
LucieBlockley
Joseph Dunn
Arthur Jones
MOBILE/COMPUTER (6)
Juliet Clark
Susannah Grumball
Madeleine Hindes
Emily Turner
William Kelly
Edward Elliott
NARRATIVE (5)
Alexandra Ciufudean
Bethany Holmes
Leah Eggleton
Joshua Beckman
Robbie Foulston
PROJECTION MAPPING (6)
Rebecca Anderson
Kyoka Okuda
Francesca Newell
Zowie Wood
Andrew Turner
Declan Sheahan
SOUND (5)
Sophie Thompson
Jessica Hain
Joanne Honnor
William Barratt
Alexander Powell
VIDEO (6)
Anna Canlan-Shaw
Katharine Farmer
Georganna Simpson
Rachel Johnson
Lily Slydel
Max Wood
GROUPS - MACHINES - MENTORS
(all machine passwords should be smallcat5)
VIDEO – imac1 (Tim)
LIVE VIDEO – macpro1 – (Michael)
MOBILE/PC – PC3 & macpro2 (Tim)
SOUND – imac2 (Rob)
NARRATIVE – PC4 (Tim)
PROJECTION MAPPING – macmini (Michael)
LIGHT - macbook pro – (Rob)
Dropbox/gmail
Email:
Password: smallcat5
Working Late
If you envisage working late (past 9.30pm) please ensure that you inform Security on 024 7652 2083, informing who you are and where you are working. Please ensure the spaces are locked when you leave
Queries
Contact: Tim White – 07764759562
BLOG
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Tuesday Week 7
Tasks (from the blog)
Video
We will be covering shooting and editing video and I'd like you to bring in examples of either/both cinematography and/or editing that you find arresting/captivating/mesmerizing. Think about what gives the clip its power and if and the extent to which the sound and/or the context are contributing factors. Try to avoid complete works (music videos or feature films) and try and isolate moments where the craft of the cinematographer or editor is apparent. As an example, this shot composition from the otherwise leaden Bonfire of the Vanities pulls together the themes of wealth, power and aesthetics in a single long-planned shot that brings together the Empire State Building, Concorde and sunrise. -
Sound
As with video this is not about identifying complete pieces of music but rather to respond to interesting sonic textures that might, as per these two examples, come from pieces of music, but might , as equally come from recorded sounds in the wild, either untampered or else modified in some way. We will be using Logic but you can grab short clips and export them to mp3 files using a free program called Audacity -
Find some snippets and bring them in on ausb stick, phone or laptop as you prefer
Light
Think about light as surfaces and glow (as per a monitor) and as pinpoints (as in stand-by or status LEDs) - how can these be read in a performance space - can they be used directly or replicated or suggested by other means. I've provided a few images that take advantage of a darkened space to position technology as the source of light (illumination/information?)
Narrative
The five greatest human-machine, machine-machine or human-human (mediated by machine) relationships? Popular culture provides us with examples that often play on the perfectability of the visual appearance of the human in robotic form (Blade Runner, Metropolis) though on a more mundane level it might be possible to talk about a fondness for devices that we keep about us (phones, ipads) as well as those that we join alone in a room and spend long hours with (desktops, laptops). The two come together in David Levy's controversial claim in Love and Sex with Robots that human-robot might be feasible by the middle of this century (see interview here - By 40 or 50 years, everyone of a marriageable age will have grown up with electronics all around them at home, and not see them as abnormal. People who grow up with all sorts of electronic gizmos will find android robots to be fairly normal as friends, partners, lovers and Amazon page on the book here -
Think of other instances from popular culture that address either human-machine, machine-machine or human-human (mediated by machine) relationships and consider what aspects of our current behaviour resist or support Levy's hypothesis.
Projection Mapping
Please access this resource on VPT to get an idea of what the program does - you can download PC/MAC versions as well as view tutorial videos and read the online manual.
Live Video Performance
UPDATE – we will now be using COLORCODE VJ (and also QLab). Info on the first of these here
Mobile/Computer integration
Assuming you have a laptop and or smartphone and/or tablet please undertake some online research to determine the extent to which you can use it/them to control things rather than input/store/retrieve information. This might include online appliances (lightbulbs, webcams), other computing devices (controlling a PC/Mac with your phone, or local appliances (TV's, lights) and production tools (musical instruments, lighting desks). Ideally the control will be untethered (wireless)