Visual Narratives

On view November 22, 2009-April 26, 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. For more information, please visit http://www.moma.org/timburton All images courtesy of Tim Burton and © 2009 Tim Burton Films.

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http://www.disconnecteddocumentary.com/

How long could you go without a computer?

Three college students take on the challenge of giving up their computers to see how their academic, social, and work lives are affected. No Facebook. No YouTube. No e-mail. How will they get their work done? Will they cheat? Who will survive the longest? This one-hour documentary follows Carleton College students Andrew, Caitlin, and Chel as they go through "digital detox" and learn to interact with themselves and with others in ways we have largely forgotten.

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View more short animations by the artist BLU on the website
http://blublu.org/sito/video/video2.htm

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Watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Often cited as the first true horror film...

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Scion Presents: 'FLUX SUPER 8' from Scion ART on Vimeo.

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ARK from grzegorz jonkajtys on Vimeo.

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LUIS from diluvio on Vimeo.

Luis, is the second short in a series titled Lucia, Luis y el lobo by Chilean artists Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, and Joaquin Cociña. Luis was created using dirt, flowers, charcoal, found objects, and cardboard. It's sister video, Lucia, was also shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera.

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JibJab has launched a new wave of Starring You videos.
http://sendables.jibjab.com/

These are animated templates that allow you to paste in pictures of yourself and your friends, and now you can post to your facebook wall. Amazingly fast, fun... and you could easily waste an evening with this amusement.

For more about their process, view JibJab animatic
http://vimeo.com/7278384

JibJab Blog
http://blog.jibjab.com/

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Please plan to attend this lecture if you can on Monday night

Fall 2009 Visual Lecture Series
Jila Nikpay, photographer and filmmaker
6PM Monday, November 2, 2009
Location: Bohannon Lecture Hall (room 90)
http://www.jilanikpay.com/

Jila Nikpay is an Iranian artist who lives in the U.S. She is a filmmaker and a photographer, working exclusively in black and white. Her still photography is staged, and marked by dramatic lighting. The films are poetic tableaus, comprised of short vignettes with no dialogue.

Post your comments about the lecture to this entry

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Please post your thoughts, inspiration and links for the short film project here. Share an idea for a film you would like to work on and a few links to support your approach to the project.

Here is the trailer for Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry

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Magical short by Guilherme Marcondes of Brazil, based on a William Blake poem. Tyger blends puppetry, illustration, photography and CGI.

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If this was a story about my life...

Project #2 covers the second half of creating your short digital narrative... The goal of this project is to have you experience the steps of generating a short movie in the software that demonstrates your understanding of basic visual devices in cinematic storytelling. Have fun with this! Share info about your director and reveal something about your own storytelling sensibilities.

TUTORIALS
Go through software tutorials for overview of tools and techniques. Prepare for tech needs in class > external hard drive and headphones will be needed for our projects.

RECORD VOICE OVER
Record your script via digital microphone for use in final cut express or imovie software.

IMPORT VIDEO + IMAGES
Select a clip from your director's film for inclusion in your movie. Organize photoshop images, size images to correct format, and scan story boards for use in animatic.

ANIMATIC
View examples of professional animatics. Create additional images or sounds needed for your animatic of climax scene. Assemble animatic in final cut software. Try some techniques of motion and special effects.

FINAL EDIT
Combine voice over narration, music and sound effects, still and moving images to create your own short film. Export your project as a Quicktime movie to share with class.

Please see Due Dates on syllabus

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http://www.zinema2.com/index.php/index/
Zinema 2- Duluth's Only Independent Movie Theater
222 E. Superior St. Duluth, MN, 55802 . 218.722.7300

TONIGHT>
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, will be rollin in to Duluth on Sept 18th to present his award-winning short film work. Roger's films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square. In his recent films, Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors-running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously-not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema."

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Project 1 covers the first part of creating your own short digital narrative... script, research, and storyboarding.

SCRIPT
Fill in the blanks and reshape the script to fit your own needs. Share your script with the class for feedback. Refine script and print a copy for teacher and one for your portfolio.

RESEARCH
Research the work of your director. Find books, reviews, and critical writing that help you identify visual qualities and unique strengths in their approach to cinematic storytelling. Gather still images for eventual use in your own narrative. (These can be pics of actors, locations, props.) With a partner, take photos of yourself for use in the narrative (various shot types, from close ups to action shots) Use photoshop to digitally composite a few still shots for your narrative. Sketching what you need first will help you take the photos you need for the project.

STORYBOARDS
Practice story boarding by imitating and redrawing professional works.(See handouts in class + view online resources). Examine a specific work by the director and stop-frame the movie for story boarding a scene. (Draw at least 5 frames from their movie.) Be able to identify specific cinematic devices used by the director, as outlined in our text book. Create an original story board of the climax scene in your narrative (at least 12 frames) for use in your animatic. Use pens and other tools that will help you create the strongest possible story board images. Emphasize shot framing, perspective, and lighting that best creates the mood of your scene.

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full movie is viewable for free on the internet
http://www.sitasingstheblues.com

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