Hello to everyone in the Video Art/Digital Video class in the multimedia department at Richland! This is the course blog for this semester, which will act as a kind of extended conversation about the readings we do outside of class.
There will be theoretical readings assigned some weeks (check the syllabus to see what's due), and the following week we will discuss the reading in class. To advance our discussion, you will post responses here.
Please do so the day or night before class so I have a chance too look over it and include your comments in our discussion.
You should also read the responses of your fellow students. You may respond to them in the comments section if you like. Please feel free to post pictures, video, links, and other items that will advance the conversation. Looking forward to a new semester with you.
Hello fellow students and techno-files!
ReplyDeleteI just finished the reading from the textbook, and discovered new info (along with all the stuff that a lot of us already knew). There was a lot of data to take in, but I found some of it really interesting to me. I did not know, for instance, that the different current in other parts of the world would change things like frame rates. I never even considered that. Also, I heard the prof using the terms 2k and 4k, I was clueless. Now I KNOW!
Now the other reading was somewhat difficult to get through; after an ominous, but apropros warning from the prof! I found it tough getting through the venom and sarcasm to get at his point. I believe his point to be an age-old lament from the young...we don't want to be told what art to appreciate, but rather to be left to our own designs to create work never before seen! His reference to a fast auto vs. the triumphant Hellenistic art of B.C. Europe, was ridiculous in my mind. But maybe that was his intent. It reminds me of my own youth back in the 70's. The very thing was occurring in America, and so it shall continue to do so for as long as man survives. Youthful rebellion against what they percieve as 'antiquated' standards and norms in art and other areas of life (such as philosophy).
Some of you may have heard of a rock band called the Who. Their leader wrote a song called 'My Generation'. "People try to put us down. Just because we get around. Things they do look awful cold. Hope I die before I get old." I wonder what Mr. Townshend would say about that today, as he is pushing 70? The writer of this "manifesto" clearly states that he will welcome the next round of usurpers when they show up in ten years. I wonder how that turned out. Probably about the same as with Mr. Townshend, right?
Gregg Dietz
Gregg,
DeleteI know how you feel about the Handbook, but I think that once we start applying the science behind it in real world situations that most of it will start becoming clearer. I didn't get the email with the "Futuristic Manifesto" so I did a search on it and found three different translations, I read each of them.
I think every generation writes a manifesto of how the youth view society and the world often while its in some state of crisis or war. This is illustrated best in the :Futurist Manifesto" by F.T. Marinetti or "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg or even "Only God Can Judge Me" by Tupac Shakur. These are all hand written moments in time that express the anger, passion, love, hate, and emotional outrage that the young are expressing at the hands of the powers-that-be! Sometimes we have no other choose but to rebel against whatever system is holding us down and oppressing our very right to be FREE! So, who could blame these writers or others like them for calling out the burdens of the past, the dogmatic viewpoints of men who simply want to control them, or beat them into submission just daring to exist and be seen. Perhaps anyone who is sick and tired of being "sick and tired" and is done being emotionally crippled by the "isms" and authority figures of the world is a FUTURIST because the past is brutal and the present simply won't do!!! If we are truly going to evolve or manifest on any level than we have to denounce many of the things that we hold dear to us..even our own selves at the end of the day because we bring along to many prejudices and isms and religions and constitutions and wars etc...But, as I read the Futurist Manifesto I stopped and wondered why is it that we only ponder these things during times of crisis? Why do we sit idle watching Keeping up with the Kardashians and allow ourselves to be distracted by background noise and nonsense while the future is slowly taken from us? The sad answer to the last question at least is because we allow it...simply because we have failed to be futurist ourselves and cling to the past and to the present.
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ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 1 of “The Filmmaker’s Handbook” it introduces the film and digital system. It’s amazing how much technology has advanced so much through the years, from shooting film, to now digital cameras! Digital cameras can go up to very high Definition quality. Postproduction looks like it was a hassle, then, having to cut and paste the film & separately, and adding sound. Today you can pick up a good HD camera at you local electronic store, and shoot like a professional or for the most part in great quality frames. Weather it’s a universal studios or a home project it is, now easier for the cameramen to function the camera, and editor to edit clips into an entire video all in one software.
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