how to film a video- equipment.

In order to film a great video, we must need the equipment below.
1. a decent video camera,

Camera that gives perfect result. When we buy the camera, check its reviews and features. The main features, such as its Camcorder Effective Video Resolution

2. tri-pod

additional equipment we might need are microphone and the light.  The microphone can help us to record

Yu-Lan Tsai

photoshop art!

by Mike Lew

 

When using photoshop, there are a few basics that a user must always learn.  The first and most important thing is layers.  Layers in photoshop allow the user to place images on top of each other and add effects to said layers to make the bottom or top more visible.

 

Here we have a picture taken from a custom position zoom and color scheme of the mandelbrot set: (generated by a program I wrote)

And here, we have Monet’s Woman with Parasol:

Our goal is to replace the background of the impressionist painting with our mandelbrot set image to make some totally awesome avante-garde stuff!

Step 1)  Go into photoshop and set the Monet to the top layer and mandelbrot set to the background layer.

Step 2) Use the magic wand tool:

The magic wand tool allows you to select a part of the image defined by the colors around it.  The selection will not be a standard box shape – instead it will detect the color of the surrounding pixels and find where a sharp color border exists.

The magic wand tool is the sparkling wand icon in the left-side toolbox.  Now click on the back ground, and it should select most of the sky part of the image. (You may need to shift-click a few times to get all of it.)

Step 3) Simply press delete, and photoshop will set your selected part of the image to transparent.  This allows you to see the image behind it!

Now check out the result:

Whoa, totally trippy, right?  Using this technique, you can make all kinds of old art new again.  Its a great way for you to induce your friends who are into fractal art to the classics.

Final quiz: can you figure out how many flowers have been replaced by customized sections from the mandelbrot set?

Answer: Three!

And now I shall be caught up: Final Project

So I have the basic outline of my ideas posted, but allow me to go into a little more detail.

My narrator is another Librarian in Babel. Unlike Borges’ narrator, however, mine is quite pleased with his lot in life, and thinks reverentially about the books of the Library. He has collected some of his favorite manuscripts in what he calls his “Retirement Hexagon,” and decides to share some of them with the listener. The books will be voiced by others, instead of just read by the narrator, because I feel like it.

The clips he shares will start out vaguely sensible, but as he’s an asshole, he holds them up as incredibly beautiful or deep or whatever. At first, the clips will grow increasingly weird and senseless. Then, he picks one that starts reading the actions he took but minutes before, and not being too complimentary. He tries to close it, but it won’t shut up, and he burns it.

I think Jorge would approve.

-Brendan

Changing Color in Premier

Adjusting color:
If you film on a cloudy day, the color that appears in your movie can be washed out and drab. However, you can fix that in Premier.
Premier Pro has tools that can fix contrast: Go to the video effect folder, and find the folder that say “Adjust.” Within is an effect called “auto contrast.” Drag it on top of your clip, and it does the work for you.
However, that’s not gonna fix your color issues. But Premier’s got those tools too.
Go to video effects folder. Within, you will find “Color Correction” and within that folder, the effect “Change to Color.” As above, drag and drop it on any clip.
But nothing happens, does it? There are more things to click. Go to the “Window” drop-down menu and pick “Effect Controls.”
You will see a list of all the effects used on your clip. Find “Change to Color.” Use the eyedropper tool to select color to change from, from within the clip. The color you select will change to show you what you will be adjusting.
Then go to “Change To” (still within the same menu) and select the color picker. Then the color changes. How simple!

 

Brendan Sullivan

Old Constraints

Three Constraints in Only Revolutions:

1. The text becomes smaller as each of the narratives progress. This visual cue engages in us almost a whirlpool or down the drain sensation. As the dates converge, so do the sizes of the fonts.

2. The word “light” never appears in the novel. This is because at its base the novel is about feeling over seeing. Teenagers, like Sam and Hailey, don’t give a flying fuck about the world around them; they just want to hang out and have sex. So, no “seeing” no light.” In this way readers are required to not make perfect sense of the novel, but get from it a general feeling.

3. I have no idea what it means, but I did notice certain words used in one of the narratives and not in the other. For insteance, one uses “begin” and the other “start.” What could this possibly mean?

Class Notes April 5

Hello Everyone,

The assignment for next week is a rough draft of your final project, which we will be critiquing in class. Please put it up on your website, or if you are hosting it somewhere else, provide a link on your site. All your work should be both up on your website, and on the flash drive you turn in at the end of the semester. If you would like to use some Flash in your project, Sarah will be at the tutorial this week (on Saturday from 1:00-3:00) for anyone who needs help.

This Monday is the final due date for any blog posts that have not been completed yet. If you do not finish all the assigned work, you will not pass. If you are unsure whether or not you are missing any assignment, blog post or otherwise, please send me an email or direct message @900_0001, and I will let you know ASAP.

Good luck on your final projects!
-Claudia

Confirmation of my final project

After discussing my idea for a final project and receiving positive feedback on it, I have decided to go with my original idea. I’m still trying to come up with a creative phrase by which to name it in a concise manner. It will, essentially, be an interactive Flash movie that first familiarizes the reader with the the content of the famous DeCSS copyright lawsuit, then displays a “slideshow” of examples used in defense against the lawsuit, and finally, what it means to for the DMCA (specifically, how it is flawed by definition in gargantuan ways). The middle portion will be largely based on this gallery of very creative renditions of the piece of code called into question as part of the lawsuit, but will be presented concisely so the reader does not have to sift through the links separately.