Assignment #4: Final Project – 20 points
Length: 1 - 5 minutes, tagged with your name and blog URL at the end
Duedates:
Proposal: 3/31 - One page, outlining your concept, rationale for project as an example of New Media and/or interactivity, sources, and primary message
Rough cuts: 4/14 and 4/16
Tuesday, April 22nd by 4pm:
1. Video compressed and embedded on your blog
2. Project statement handed in ON BLACKBOARD
The final project is a culmination of the concepts and issues we have addressed throughout this course. As such, these projects should incorporate elements of New Media (once again: Numerical representation, Modularity, Automation, Variability, (Cultural) Transcoding, Sampling, Compositing, the database/narrative, the spectrum of interactivity). Your project need not incorporate all of these elements, but should build from a foundation that bears these elements in mind. As always, you will provide a rationale for your project as an example of New Media in your proposal and project statement.
Two Options:
- Kinetic Typography. Choose a short passage, a poem, lyrics, or original text and bring it to life by animating the words and letters in AfterEffects. This option should consider the power of font choice and graphic design in expressing the emotion and ideas of the text. Given that we most often experience text as still and stable, how does the addition of motion change the way we interpret language? This video may incorporate images besides text, but text should be the primary driving element of the project. TUTORIAL: http://www.crookedgremlins.com/09/01/2008/kinetic-typography-tutorial/
- Propose your own. For this option, you could choose to work with a form explored in previous assignments (a new remix/mashup, multi-channel video, or collage), or propose a new idea that incorporates notions of cinematic multimedia and interactivity as we’ve discussed them this semester. This option could be a single video, or you could propose a series of short videos as a kind of database cinema. NOTE: Proposal must be approved to move ahead on this option.
Criteria for evaluation:
- Clear integration of elements and principles of New Media
- Developed concept that takes work in the class to a higher level
- Strong sense of unity – all elements serve a purpose in conveying the overall message
- Attention to polished technical production and execution
- Clear sense of progression and development
- Attention to high quality compression/playback
- Video meets requirements of Fair Use
Project Statement
In addition to your video, prepare a 2 page, double spaced paper in which you describe your approach and process in creating this project, and your rationale for its status as a work of New Media. Where did the idea come from? What were your sources (visuals and audio)? What do you hope to achieve with this piece? How does it integrate elements of New Media? What were your main obstacles? Successes? How does this piece meet the requirements of Fair Use, if applicable?