VISUAL NARRATIVES

Erik Loyer will be a visiting artist on UMD campus on TUESDAY...
His Lecture is OPEN to the PUBLIC Tuesday March 5th at 6pm in Montague Hall

Erik Loyer is a media artist and creative director working at the intersection of interactivity, story, music and animation. As a digital media artist he often works in collaboration on creative projects that use emerging media such as iPads and game systems for innovative digital narratives and interactive poetic works... like STRANGE RAIN:

His work has been exhibited online and internationally at venues including Artport at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Digital Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Prix Ars Electronica; Transmediale; and IndieCade. Loyer's award-winning website The Lair of the Marrow Monkey was one of the first to be added to the permanent collection of a major art museum, and his serialized web narrative Chroma went on to win the Best Digital Creation award at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media.
As Creative Director for the experimental digital humanities journal Vectors, Loyer has designed over a dozen interactive essays in collaboration with numerous scholars including the Webby-honored documentary Public Secrets, and his commercial portfolio includes Clio and One Show Gold Award-winning work for Vodafone, as well as projects for BMW, Sony, and NASA.
He is the founder of interactive design studio Song New Creative, and develops story-driven interactive entertainment under the Opertoon label, including most recently a critically-acclaimed iPhone application entitled Ruben & Lullaby. A recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, Loyer has a B.A. in Cinema/Television Production from the University of Southern California.

View his work here:
http://erikloyer.com/index.php/projects/

http://erikloyer.com/index.php/projects/detail/upgrade_soul/

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Please set up your own vimeo account (free) to share your short digital video project.
Please post a link to your VIMEO site to the comments here.

More info here:
Sign-up
http://vimeo.com/sign_up
Basics
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Vimeo Help Center / Frequently Asked Questions
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HD Channel
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Beasts of the Southern Wild

http://www.zeitgeistarts.com/category/zinema-2/zin-now-playing

Anyone interested in cinematography and video editing should see this film from director Benh Zeitlin. It took home the Grand Jury Prize and Best Cinematography award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Expected to win some oscars next.

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Exercise 2: Capturing the Light
Using only natural light to illuminate your subject, create a simple narrative using a variety of visual strategies to capture and exploit the available light.

Use this second exercise to expand on what you learned in exercise one. This time push yourself to make the most of natural lighting opportunities. Look for windows, doorways and other ways that light may stream in from the outside. If you need to, experiment with ways to bounce the natural light with reflectors or light materials. You may choose to shoot outside if weather permits. Do not risk damage to cameras in snow or extreme cold. Another option is to explore the use of candlelight or fire light. (Always protect camera from flame or smoke).

Continue to use a variety of shot types and angles. Build a mood using your subject and your setting deliberately. Make every shot count.

Edit to 20-30 seconds / optional simple sound. 10%

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Please view at least 5 Short Films over the next few weeks and take notes using the format below. I highly recommend viewing the Oscar Nominated Shorts that are showing at Zinema. Or you may use the DVDs of short film collections (like Wholphin, Shorts!, ResFest) that are now on reserve for you at the library front desk. Or view others you find on the web (be selective, avoid youtube). If possible, find works that relate somehow to your own creative work, as inspiration for a technique or look you hope to achieve. Try to use films that are longer than one minute and shorter than 15 minutes (though the definition of a short film may vary).

Take notes while you view, type your reflection and post to the blog once you have viewed 5 shorts. Your blog must note all of this info for each film:

Title:
Year:
Director:
Run time:
Link to the film : (URL of website, dvd, tv or movie theatre)
Story Synopsis:
Location:
Characters:
Visual strengths:
Use of Light / Color:
Digital techniques:
Use of Sound / Music:

See links to Short films.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jrock2/viznar/2009/02/short_films_links.html#more

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Tom Jones / Artist Lecture 6pm
February 5, 2013
http://tomjoneshochunk.com/
Tom Jones is an Assistant Professor of Photography at UW-Madison. He received his MFA in Photography and a MA in Museum Studies from Columbia College in Chicago, IL. Jones' photographs examine identity and geographic place with an emphasis on the experience of American Indian communities. He is interested in the way that American Indian material culture is represented through popular commodity culture, e.g. architecture, advertising, and self-representation. He continues to work on an ongoing photographic essay on the contemporary life of his tribe, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. He is critically assessing the romanticized representation of Native peoples in photography through the reexamination of historic pictures taken by white photographers. This reassessment questions the assumptions about identity within the American Indian culture by non-natives and Natives alike. Jones is a co-author on the book "People of the Big Voice, Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1943." Jones' work is in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, Polaroid Corporation, Sprint Corporation, The Chazen Museum of Art, The Nerman Museum, and Microsoft.

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http://www.aphotostudent.com/movies-about-photography/

This is a good list!

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