Project
#2: Sense of Place
In this assignment, you will:
. continue
to learn shooting and editing
. use Cleaner 6 to create realtime streaming files, alts and master
. use Dreamweaver to make links from an image map to your page with your videos
. learn how to upload your files to VPA, the QT streaming server; and html files
to "courses" the file server
.use Dreamweaver to create a sized popup window and embed your video
In 2002, the collaborative art group, Desperate Optimists, created a video project
for the web called Minute
by Minute which was an exploration of urban space. The site contains 24
one minute digital videos for the web about Newham in East London, a dying industrial
town undergoing a resurgence. Digital Optimists found eight artists who could
create these films. The artists were given what may seem strict guidelines.
The guidelines in fact provided freedom within structure. The partners of Digital
Optimists say, "We're great believers in the jazz structure model, by which
we mean it must be tight so you feel clear and supported enough to play freely
because you aren't spending all of your time looking for the structure."
(The Independent Film and Video Monthly, Sept 2002. www.aivf.org)
Using
these basic instructions for shooting, produce two videos which create a sense
of place for a web viewer:
1. Choose only one location to explore
2. Make two videos one minute in length or less
3. The video(s) must take place at two different times of day, at least five
hours apart or on different days
4. No camera moves (panning, titling, zooming); however things can move in and
out of the frame
5. Use sound that does not need strict audio/video synchronization (ambient)
6. Video must reflect some incidental moments of activity
Using the image map below, link to a web page you will create which will have your embedded videos. Download this page, open it in Dreamweaver, and make links using the image map in the property inspector (or write you own html!). Do not overwrite anyone elses hotspots. You can design your own webpage with your two embedded videos how you wish.
Discussion
Zone for Sense of Place
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