Technical Exercise 1 (try to finish by end of class)
Part 1:
1. Submit any one source footage directly from the camera with filename with your name with video format information (eg. LASTNAME.1080p.???)
2. Submit an edited H.264 compressed mp4 video file exported from Premier using your own footage with some kind of simple edit (or effect) with filename with your name with video format information (eg. LASTNAME.1080p.H264.mp4)

Part 2:
1. Using the two files given to you [here] (DoorShut2.mov, DoorShutWide.mov]) practicing the tools introduced in class, create three edits where the transition occurs before, on, and after the action.

The purpose of this exercise is purely technical. It is for me to check that you all have the right settings/configuration/file format.

Submit the mp4 files [here].

Technical Exercise 2: Simple event created through an edit, two ways (due before class starts). - Submit two videos using the approximately same set of footage, each approx. 1 min long (many cuts, > 5?) which uses editing to depict a simple event that did not happen, that cannot have happened, that modifies/compresses space and time via editing.

For example, transporting space/time through editing (opening a door to one room and ending up in a very different space. In reality the rooms are not connected). Or throwing a ball and the ball landing in an unexpected place/way, a car accident/murder scene (think the famous shower scene from Psycho), conversation between people who can not possibly be in the same room... or as mundane as preparing & drinking coffee (compression of time) and being transported to a tropical paradise (space), or reading book and day and night has passed (compression of time) while going on a journey within the book (traversing space) but with editing, compressed into 1 mins.

The two videos should be of the same event/footage with different editing style

• At least one video must use invisible continuity editing with no music where we can easily believe that the event has happend.
  
  
• The editing style of the second video is open-ended, perhaps could be more experimental using montage. [eg. Ulysses Jenkins, Inconsequential Doggereal, 1981, 15:11min]
  
  
  You may work with classmates to shoot and share source footage if you wish but please edit independently. It need not be interesting. It is a exercise in shooting, editing, and making decisions.
  FYI some examples from last year [here]
  Submit your h264 compressed mp4 files [here]
  

Project 1: Single Channel Work

Recall all the experiments artists conducted using video and the works we've seen and read about. Create a single channel video (single screen video to be projected during critique in the DML).

For example performative, initiate an activity/event/performance to be video-taped and create a video like Martha Rosler or Hannah Wilke. Or use the (human) body as the central instrument in the video like Bruce Nauman, John Wood & Paul Harrison, William Pope. L, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Kimsooja A Beggar Woman [8:30min], perhaps (but not necessary) in response to the early video art works shown in class. (Give yourself a task. An *art* task that you may or may not be able to complete. Document the effort. Start with an idea. Keep an open mind).

Or as another example, edit based, a diaristic video like George Kucher's Weather Diary, or Zeinabu Irene Davis's Cycles, poetic experimental film like Arthur Jafa's Deshotten or collage-based video Love is the Message, The Message is Death.

Alternatively, a video that is visually and aesthetically compelling using effects like Pipilotti Rist's work,Yayoi Kusama's colorful documentary works, or Kimsooja To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle (2005) [9:30min], Toshio Matsumoto's Phantom [9:59 mins] or Atman [12mins]

So you have many different ways of approaching a sigle channel video work. Your video can be long but I ask that you submit an excerpt less than 5 min. Please submit your video to the class folder with your first and last name [here]

Optional Extra Credit Technical Exercise: VFX/Animation in After Effects (if we have any, we can watch 11/2).

• Create a video, one second or longer (mp4 file) by layering multiple sources (video or images) together and by using masks
• You can use various forms of masks (Greenscreen, rotoscoping...etc) in After Effects to create a short VFX video
• Warning: this will take an enourmous amount of time. Do not attempt if you do not have the time

Technical Exercise 3. Create a video of an event (walking, talking, opening door ...etc) using split-screen (multiple videos simultaneously) due before class.

• Create at least one video of an event (eg. an event you created for Technical Exercise 2 or project)
  • using split-screen (where there are multiple windows in a single video)
  • that has the same spirit as invisible continuity editing (it's not meant to be jarring)
  • max length 1 min
• You can reuse source footage from past exercises/projects but you probably will have to shoot new footage
• The idea is to find a new editing method/vocabulary using multiple screeens
  
  Submit [here] [past student work]

Project 2: New Video for Art due before class: [submit here]
- This project asks you to explore possibilities of video in an art setting/audience (gallery or museum space with viewers entering the space at random times) with the readings in mind.
- It's open-ended. With that said, multiple simultaneous projection is ideal as a project but we don't have the resources (space/projectors) to make that happen to all. So my suggestion is to go half-way by using split-screen or many videos within video
- For the purpose of the critique, while the video can be long, we will only have time to look at approximately 5 mins of the work. Thus please make a 5 min excerpt of your work.
- Unless otherwise arranged, the work will be projected on the DML projector.

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