In "Poetics of Space", Gaston Bachelard describes how the house has been used in art and psychology as a metaphor for the mind, the body, and the psyche.
The cellar can represent unknown fears.The attic sometimes represents higher thought, but also a place where things can be locked up and forgotten.

This assignment is to explore the metaphor of "the house".

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heart, gone south

 

 

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This assignment entails choosing a text to work with; making a realtime streaming Quicktime movie using reference movies; using Dreamweaver to create rollover states; linking to a Quicktime popup window to view your movie; using Photoshop to create thumbnails.

Make a video based on one of the texts provided in the rollovers above. To choose a rollover above, replace the house image (house.jpeg) with your own image (160 x 120, 72ppi only). Use Cleaner 5 to compress and encode a real time streaming Quicktime video (approx. 2:00).Create a still frame from your video, and resize it is using Photoshop to a 160x 120 thumbnail. Use this to create a new rollover state in the table above, leaving the original text you chose untouched. Make a link from the rollover in the table above, to a Quicktime player pop-up window using Dreamweaver's Property Inspector and html code to create the pop-up. Go to this page for more detailed information.

Check out this site to see what previous students did: http://courses.csusm.edu/vpa380ekd/housefs.html

What you will learn in this assignment:

PhotoShop:
how to create a thumbnail in PhotoShop
how to export a still frame from your movie to PhotoShop

Dreamweaver:
basic Dreamweaver web page skills
how to create a rollover in Dreamweaver using thumbnails
how to create a link to your movie in Dreamweaver making the movie appear in a sized pop up window
what tables and cells are in web pages and how Dreamweaver creates them

Cleaner 5: Quicktime Architecture
Use Cleaner 5 to compress and encode a Quicktime movie real time streaming video.

Conceptualizing your video:
how to develope an idea for a video based on
a poetic and symbolic interpretation of the architecture of a house