What makes a good interview?
People respond to your interest in what they are saying.
Questions are a guideline. Allow flexibility.
LISTEN
Have a conversation but let your subject speak freely - DON'T INTERRUPT.
People want to talk about what they care about.
Saturday, 28 September 2019
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Koyaanisqatsi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIvJTuCrlE
This documentary is famous for it's Philip Glass score and its amazing cinematography. A complete story in images. This is just one section.
This documentary is famous for it's Philip Glass score and its amazing cinematography. A complete story in images. This is just one section.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off- Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mj4Jluiftw
This scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
According to John Hughes, the scene at the Art Institute of Chicago was "a self-indulgent scene of mine—which was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it. I knew all the paintings, the building. This was a chance for me to go back into this building and show the paintings that were my favorite." The museum had not been shot in, until the producers of the film approached them. "I remember Hughes saying, 'There are going to be more works of art in this movie than there have ever been before,'" recalled Jennifer Grey "And then this picture (Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte), which I always thought this painting was sort of like making a movie," explained Hughes. A pointillist style, which at very very close to it, you don't have any idea what you've made until you step back from it. I used it in this context to see that he's (Cameron) looking at that little girl. Again, it's a mother and child. The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. Of course, with this style of painting. Or any style of painting really. But the more he looks at, there's nothing there. I think he fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isn't anything there. That's him." According to editor Paul Hirsch, in the original cut, the museum scene fared poorly at test screenings until he switched sequences around and Hughes changed the soundtrack. "The piece of music I originally chose was a classical guitar solo played on acoustic guitar. It was nonmetrical with a lot of rubato. I cut the sequence to that music and it also became nonmetrical and irregular. I thought it was great and so did Hughes. He loved it so much that he showed it to the studio but they just went "Ehhh." Then after many screenings where the audience said "The museum scene is the scene we like least," he decided to replace the music. We had all loved it, but the audience hated it. I said, 'I think I know why they hate the museum scene. It's in the wrong place.' Originally, the parade sequence came before the museum sequence, but I realized that the parade was the highlight of the day, there was no way we could top it, so it had to be the last thing before the three kids go home. So that was agreed upon, we reshuffled the events of the day, and moved the museum sequence before the parade. Then we screened it and everybody loved the museum scene! My feeling was that they loved it because it came in at the right point in the sequence of events. John felt they loved it because of the music. Basically, the bottom line is, it worked."
This scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
According to John Hughes, the scene at the Art Institute of Chicago was "a self-indulgent scene of mine—which was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it. I knew all the paintings, the building. This was a chance for me to go back into this building and show the paintings that were my favorite." The museum had not been shot in, until the producers of the film approached them. "I remember Hughes saying, 'There are going to be more works of art in this movie than there have ever been before,'" recalled Jennifer Grey "And then this picture (Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte), which I always thought this painting was sort of like making a movie," explained Hughes. A pointillist style, which at very very close to it, you don't have any idea what you've made until you step back from it. I used it in this context to see that he's (Cameron) looking at that little girl. Again, it's a mother and child. The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. Of course, with this style of painting. Or any style of painting really. But the more he looks at, there's nothing there. I think he fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isn't anything there. That's him." According to editor Paul Hirsch, in the original cut, the museum scene fared poorly at test screenings until he switched sequences around and Hughes changed the soundtrack. "The piece of music I originally chose was a classical guitar solo played on acoustic guitar. It was nonmetrical with a lot of rubato. I cut the sequence to that music and it also became nonmetrical and irregular. I thought it was great and so did Hughes. He loved it so much that he showed it to the studio but they just went "Ehhh." Then after many screenings where the audience said "The museum scene is the scene we like least," he decided to replace the music. We had all loved it, but the audience hated it. I said, 'I think I know why they hate the museum scene. It's in the wrong place.' Originally, the parade sequence came before the museum sequence, but I realized that the parade was the highlight of the day, there was no way we could top it, so it had to be the last thing before the three kids go home. So that was agreed upon, we reshuffled the events of the day, and moved the museum sequence before the parade. Then we screened it and everybody loved the museum scene! My feeling was that they loved it because it came in at the right point in the sequence of events. John felt they loved it because of the music. Basically, the bottom line is, it worked."
Friday, 13 September 2019
Royalty Free Music
Some resources for music
- Audiosocket https://www.audiosocket.com/
- CC Mixter http://ccmixter.org/
- Chicago Music Library https://www.chicagomusiclibrary.com/
- Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org/
- Internet Archive Audio Archive https://archive.org/details/audio
- Jamendo http://www.jamendo.com/en/
- Open Music Archive http://www.openmusicarchive.org/
- Opsound http://opsound.org/
- Petrucci Music Library http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Public Domain 4U http://publicdomain4u.com/
- Stock Music http://www.stockmusic.net/index.cfm
- The Music Bed http://themusicbed.com
- Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com
Define a Place Rubric
160 Assignment 1 - Rubric for Portrait of a Place
10% of final grade for course
Production: Shooting style reflects key concepts learned in lecture– use of different camera positions and angles. Were the frames intentional? Were they communicating the space through composition? Were the shots in focus, and steady? Pans, tilts, and handheld dynamic movements were employed intentionally. No zooms. Variety of subjects in frame (light, humans, nonhumans). No actors used. Each student captured at least 10 different shots.
Post-Production: Did they use the tools taught in lecture and lab? Pacing that contributes to story. If music was used, was it employed purposefully and effectively? No music videos.
Concept: Clear, with a purposeful structure– beginning / middle / end– or other conceptual structure that aids in communicating the essence of the space.
Followed project guidelines: One location (or a contrast between 2 spaces), observation of the space and its details, Time: 1-2 minutes.
Team Player/ Professionalism: Did they follow along and pay attention during camera demo? Did they show up on time on the day of shooting and actively participate? Did they come to class prepared, with their hard drive for both editing days, and participate in the editorial process?
Timeliness: Class time was used wisely, project exported and embedded onto student blogs on time.
Premiere Resources
Here are some resource files on adobe premiere. They are from Creative Cloud 2017 edition, but they are still relevant.
Getting started with Premiere:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LAYChTOcHcYLGv7jeFvPRgfAby57RSuh
Exporting:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c4pJwwXaxcdx6SGaVNaDrJ8WWVC_KOZy
Getting started with Premiere:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LAYChTOcHcYLGv7jeFvPRgfAby57RSuh
Exporting:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c4pJwwXaxcdx6SGaVNaDrJ8WWVC_KOZy
Defining a City
The opening scene of "Manhattan" is a black and white ode to the city of New York. Here is the original scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga5IIuuFHBg
How does New York change as it goes along?
Here, someone takes the music and the voiceover and updates the piece with new footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4FgnAVFgM
Think about how the music and the voiceover aligns with the images. What kind of transitions are used between shots? Where is the camera positioned?
Same filmmaker, different city, now in vibrant color, "Midnight In Paris"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJ3yEUiSoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga5IIuuFHBg
How does New York change as it goes along?
Here, someone takes the music and the voiceover and updates the piece with new footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4FgnAVFgM
Think about how the music and the voiceover aligns with the images. What kind of transitions are used between shots? Where is the camera positioned?
Same filmmaker, different city, now in vibrant color, "Midnight In Paris"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJ3yEUiSoo
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Artist Statement
I grew up in Lower East Side Manhattan. I could tell you about my growing up here but it wasn't as impressive than the time I spent in New Mexico. My family is from Bosque Farms, a town that was little more than dirt and rocks before my great grandparents helped build it. I found New Mexico so foreign. All I knew growing up was yellow cabs and sidewalk vomit, so to be transplanted to a land of roadrunners, Indian Reservations, adobe brick, and an endless horizon. I was struck. I'm of the first generation of my family to grow up outside New Mexico, and in New York City nonetheless. Yet as much as I love crackheads and the MTA, I kind of long for the rural Tom Sawyer lifestyle I could have grown up in. Since my youth I've lost a parent, seen some friends go, seen some return. I've flown a plane, watched some movies, looked at some paintings, and overall felt some things about life.
I like surreality, I like motion and color. I'm interested in using photography and digital art as a tool to blend digitization and the technological age with rurality and nature. How the world exists truly untouched by modernization and plastics, while also appreciative and immersed by city life. To show almost how artificial humans are. Interwoven with pixels and plastics, angst and urgency. I hope to use film and photography as a tool to freeze motion, to emphasize how bizarre people are. In a city of eight million where no one is supposedly watching I want to show how weird and visceral it is when you do watch.
I like surreality, I like motion and color. I'm interested in using photography and digital art as a tool to blend digitization and the technological age with rurality and nature. How the world exists truly untouched by modernization and plastics, while also appreciative and immersed by city life. To show almost how artificial humans are. Interwoven with pixels and plastics, angst and urgency. I hope to use film and photography as a tool to freeze motion, to emphasize how bizarre people are. In a city of eight million where no one is supposedly watching I want to show how weird and visceral it is when you do watch.
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
Cathy Wang
Most babies learn how to walk at the time about 14 or 15 months old, then they will never stop. Movement was one of my biggest subject, but then I realized, why am I capturing about the things that make me feel nervous? Motion is a good element to contain in videos. However, when I see too much movements, such as human legs, cars, trains, airplanes and rolling advertisement screens, that are keep going on and on, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Researchers found out that people will be happier when they spent 2 hours in the nature each week, but living in the city (especially New York City) there is no way to be in the nature for 2 hours each week. For me, the solution for be happier is when I spent my time to observe different types of architectures, which is one of the advantages for living in the New York City.
Undoubtedly, New York City has many remarkable buildings and architectures. As a photographer, I want to capture the patterns and shapes through my unique perspective and to use film to combine the movement and the still architectures. For me, movements stand for time, and when I am observing an architecture, I intent to slow myself down. I like to play with the light and shadow and only capture parts of the architectures. By connect them with movements, I can show the differences between motion and stillness in an abstract way.
Cathy Wang
Most babies learn how to walk at the time about 14 or 15 months old, then they will never stop. Movement was one of my biggest subject, but then I realized, why am I capturing about the things that make me feel nervous? Motion is a good element to contain in videos. However, when I see too much movements, such as human legs, cars, trains, airplanes and rolling advertisement screens, that are keep going on and on, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Researchers found out that people will be happier when they spent 2 hours in the nature each week, but living in the city (especially New York City) there is no way to be in the nature for 2 hours each week. For me, the solution for be happier is when I spent my time to observe different types of architectures, which is one of the advantages for living in the New York City.
Undoubtedly, New York City has many remarkable buildings and architectures. As a photographer, I want to capture the patterns and shapes through my unique perspective and to use film to combine the movement and the still architectures. For me, movements stand for time, and when I am observing an architecture, I intent to slow myself down. I like to play with the light and shadow and only capture parts of the architectures. By connect them with movements, I can show the differences between motion and stillness in an abstract way.
Artist's Statement
Artists Statement
On a practical level, as an artist, I lean towards post production and video editing. Through editing, you can make bad footage into a beautiful product, or good footage into a bad final product. It is such an artful medium that takes such a creative eye, but is also so simple in a way. On a creative level, a large part of my inspiration for my own work is drawn from my personal experiences; moving to New York and living on my own at a young age, trying to find myself as an artist and a person. I am fully aware that this specific narrative has already been told countess times. My goal is to find a way to tell it again in a unique and creative way, bypassing the usual cliches while remaining true to my own story. As an editor especially but in all part of filmmaking, it can be used as a way to romanticize your own life. Every day on my morning commute I imagine how I could make it into a beautiful montage. Every boring, unfortunate, exciting, or inconvenient moment of my life I imagine how it would play out in a scene and contribute to the larger plot. I am very drawn to the idea of narrative. I want to take the story of my own life, cut away the parts I don’t like, and turn my own life experiences into a perfect, digestible narrative to be displayed proudly to the rest of the world.
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Artist statement
I have no experience in editing and camera work. I am more interested in editing. I want to become either an animator, editor or fiction film maker. I want to either produce or help create worlds and characters for people to get invested in. My friends have helped me a lot because they introduced me to a club in high school that centered around appreciating animations. The club focused on Japanese anime shows and movies. The studios that influenced me are Madhouse, Bones, and Ghibli. The artist that also influenced me are Hirohiko Araki, Bochi, and Eiichiro Oda. Araki makes interesting characters that have their own motives. Oda makes interesting worlds that have their own history, and each island looks different from the last and is influenced by the real world. An example of real-life influence is when the main character enters an island called Dressrosa it’s influenced by Spain. Bochi’s art is detailed and his stories are a mixed between funny, sad and exciting. Bochi and Oda are similar in story structure where the main character starts weak and gets stronger either through training or fighting. Araki’s characters are naturally strong but, they aren’t invincible and by the end of the story some of the main characters friends are dead. I want to create a story where the characters don’t always win but, through their losses they get stronger. I want people to get invested with their struggles and motivations. I don’t want a story where the main character gets what he wants and always wins it would be too boring.
Artist Statement
As an artist, I aim to trigger a train of thought through my work. Even the mention of "Art" is met with resistance in a struggling latinx household because of a perceived impending lack of monetary assistance. My work will be primarily Non-Fiction political analysis and documentaries. Through my work, I aim to break through that perception and show latinx families and our urban communities that our voices are needed in mainstream media. Our communities have been oppressed and it is time to speak out-- and loudly. I want to break through political party lines and transcend division. With a touch of witty humor, my work aims to show that humanity is like the human body. If the brain decided it was the most important organ and hoarded resources for bodily function, we would be dead soon after. If humans on one landmass hoard resources, the same would be true for earth. I intend to represent the lgbt community as well and break through stereotypes and inspire others to be comfortable with themselves. In high school I pitched our school district's first Gay-Straight Alliance club and gave a speech in front of the entire faculty and was approved, though one board member disapproved. I was president for three years and want to continue to represent the lgbt community in the future and perhaps cause that dissenting board member to regret his vote. In the end I aim to provoke a train of thought that begins to inspire humanity to come together and reshape our current economic and hence political system that stagnates human progression and incentivizes corruption.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
My name is Emmanuel Unaegbu and I am currently majoring in Emerging Media and Computer Science. As an artist, I would look to indulge myself in the inner mechanisms of media in its current innovative glory. I have been intrigued by the media due to its ability to captivate and express the inner emotions of the artist. I would be interested in creating media artworks and films. By emphasizing aesthetics and the dynamics of the landscape that surrounds us which subsequently would involve including the manipulation of its effects. Also, I would look to focus on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment.
Some things that inspire me greatly are video games, movies, and music. These are some of the most popular forms of media. The ability of the creator to express themselves in multiple different ways can lead to creating a plethora of different genres of these media. These forms of media depict how there is a connection between technology and storytelling. Also, these forms of media allow for the most immersive experience for the audience by letting them interpret the story through seeing the objects, places, and people in the world this allows them to form their own opinions about the plot.
Tuesday, 3 September 2019
Welcome to my blog!
My name is Julianna, and I am a student at Hunter College. I originally thought I wanted to major in computer science, however I realized that this was not the major for me. Starting from a young age, art has always been a huge influence in my life. My mother exposed me to various forms of art, and I just fell in love with it. I started drawing and coloring as a hobby when I was younger, and in high school, art was one of my favorite subjects. Mainly because my teacher was also a phenomenal art teacher. He taught us new ways to look at art from different perspectives, and so I knew I wanted to pursue something in the creative field.
Aside from drawing and painting, I was also a lover of different types of art such as music, film, theater, etc. I loved watching different movies and listening to a wide spectrum of music. I remember when my family and I took road trips, my older sister would always be blasting songs from her iPod and gradually,I would learn all the lyrics and we would all sing along. Aside from all of this, I was also a huge fan of technology. I was so fascinated by the way it influenced everyone's lives, and all of the different ways it was being used. Although I was interested in digital art, I still was not sure as to what I wanted to do, however after gaining my first internship relating to media, I worked as a graphic designer with a focus in UX/UI design. This job was not only eye-opening, but also very interesting for me. UX/UI design combined two things that I loved together, and I finally realized the path that I wanted to pursue!
You could say we live in a virtual world today, because of all the technology involved in our lives. Apps can be downloaded with a touch of a button, and help us perform various daily tasks. I would love to be able to create apps and websites that enhance the user experience by providing an appealing, yet simplistic interphase!
Monday, 2 September 2019
Artist Statement
My name is Seon Pollard and I am a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Hunter College. I am majoring in journalism and political science and is pursuing a career in journalism, public relations, or another field of communications. My hobbies include: playing piano, running track and field, and engaging in various church activities.
In terms of media making, it is sometimes difficult to find inspiration for media projects. However, I am interested in multimedia storytelling whether factual or fictional because I enjoy conveying fascinating stories and ideas in compelling ways. I like informing people on several topics as well as on topics that can often go overlooked.
Journalism is a form of storytelling for me. I like it because of the art of reporting (interviewing, writing, visuals etc.) and being able to inform people on something. While I enjoyed many of the stories I have done, I especially enjoyed a feature story I did about a religious dance instructor. I reported on how dance influenced her life and on how dance can impact others. I particularly enjoyed this assignment because I was able to share someone and their powerful story with the world while learning new things in the process. Moreover, although I enjoyed telling her story in print, I would enjoy telling her story in broadcast as well because I feel that it would have also been compelling that way. It is interesting to have many different forms of multimedia to work with in telling a story.
There are some examples of media that resonated with me because of their storytelling on issues of importance as well as how the stories were told. One movie that I recently watched and appreciate is “Us” by Jordan Peele. In the film, the main idea is that for certain groups in society to enjoy privileged lives, other groups are often marginalized and oppressed. This an idea that may otherwise go unnoticed yet Peele highlighted it well. He captured the audience’s attention on a topic people would rather ignore and possibly influenced people to be more aware of society they live in. I also appreciate Peele’s work because he told a story of societal injustice in an intriguing way. Instead of blatantly depicting scenes of injustice, Peele created a captivating horror film with a script and imagery that express that main idea behind the story. I am also appreciative of author James Baldwin and his work because he also conveyed motifs and themes of societal injustice through his writing. Moreover, he used his life as well as fictional storytelling centered on the Civil Rights Era to share information about race, gender, and other complex ideas. Baldwin told unconventional stories that overlapped race, gender, sex, class, and other feats of society. Additionally, I admire Trevor Noah’s “Born A Crime.” Noah’s novel was about book his unique life growing up in South Africa as a biracial individual and his deep connection with his mother. Like the other works, Noah shared complex societal ideas of race, gender, family, and so on. Nevertheless, Noah’s autobiography was a great way of conveying those ideas. Normally, society learns about how injustice plays out in American society. However, Noah’s work was a narrative of how societal influence in the apartheid and post-apartheid era influenced the life of a biracial South African; a story that is not usually shared. All of these works discuss societal injustice and other complex ideas as well as stories that could be ignored and need to be represented. They address these things in compelling ways. In my own work, I would be delighted to comment on societal topics using both actual and fictional information and share unique stories that need to be shared. Furthermore, I strive to be as creative as possible in the process.
Overall, in my media production, I aspire to tell unique stories in interesting ways. I want to use my platform to inform the world on whatever is newsworthy and important as well as whatever needs more attention. I also want to be as innovative as possible with my work. Since I am interested in communications, I am also passionate about expressing ideas coherently. Therefore, I am dedicated to completing my work to the best of my ability.
Sunday, 1 September 2019
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