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Week 5

      * start developing/drafting Project 2

 

M 8/4    Focus/Discuss: Project 2 — mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (the­ory & practice)

  • media forms & net­worked plat­forms for expres­sion of “dig­i­tal sub­ject expe­ri­ence”?
    → includ­ing ideas from Pro­posal & cul­ture obser­va­tions (inven­tion “relays”)
    — review of key ideas/terms toward new com­pos­ing (assem­blage expression)

  • Review Appa­ra­tus The­ory — Iden­tity expe­ri­ence in Electracy?

 

+ Kimoto video: “Rhi­zomatic Space” (2010)

 

    » Optional read­ing: Amerika, “Excerpts From‘Portrait Of The VJ’”  Fibrecul­ture 2005

      

 

T 8/5                     Hodg­son video: “A Post-Production Turn: New Media, New Prac­tice, New Ontol­ogy” (2014)

Activ­ity: Sam­pling “Per­sonal Data­base” Mate­ri­als (Exer­cise 3 & Project 2 warm-up)

      → Prepa­ra­tion: compile/collect media, text, “char­ac­ters,” scenes, details etc.
      for “Screen Self-Portrait” from all per­sonal data­bases:
      autobio/family, community/social, school/career field, entertainment/culture

    » in-class activ­ity instruc­tions G. Doc

     
     
    Due (11pm): Exer­cise 3   Instruc­tions Page

     
     


     
     

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  3.  
    Pro­tip for Exer­cise 3 & Project 2

     
    Com­po­si­tion Logic (from the­ory & objects of study):

    leave your­self out (explic­itly), in favor of express­ing with data­base ele­ments (“ready­made” sto­ries, char­ac­ters, set­tings, con­crete details).
    The DJ or Film Direc­tor is respon­si­ble for arrange­ment—sequence; focal­iza­tion & juxtaposition—while remain­ing absent, in terms of voice (articulation).

    The goal (and method) is to “weave” an assem­blage of het­ero­ge­neous details, voices, and sto­ries/references from your Per­sonal Data­bases, in style of “sam­pling” and re-purposing;
    mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing as new form of expres­sion —
    not to assert your opin­ion / inter­pre­ta­tion (judgment-Orality, analysis-Literacy)
    but to present (per­form) the atmos­phere within which you are sit­u­ated
    (medi­ated iden­tity, sub­ject expe­ri­ence in net­work ecol­ogy).
     

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    1.  
      » Sites/Platforms (optional alter­na­tive / in addi­tion to Word­Press) for Exer­cise 3 & Project 2

       
       
      apps / sites from Project 1 media work
       

      » Image Edit­ing:

       
      Jing Project — cap­ture & anno­tate screen images

       
      cre­at­ing your own GIFs:

       
       

       
      » Screen cap­ture & record­ing for video:

       
      — post sug­ges­tions as well!
       

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      1.  
        — more free com­pos­ing software/sites

         
        » Audio Edit­ing: Audac­ity

         
        » Video Editing

        • iMovie
        • Win­dows Movie Maker
           
          → Keep­Vid (“down­load stream­ing videos”) *PROTIP
           
          rec­om­mended: free/CreativeCommons/pub­lic domain videos at Inter­netArchive

         
        — plat­form for com­pil­ing vidoes (and your own audio, includ­ing “voiceover”) and publishing/hosting: WeV­ideo
         

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        1.  
          » video I made — expres­sion of medi­ated iden­tity and dig­i­tal sub­jec­tiv­ity expe­ri­ence — using

          1. Audacity

            — both to edit (“trim”) and then sequence tracks (start­ing with ~80 clips)

           
          2. Keep­Vid (save stream­ing videos)

            — as well as down­load­ing free/CreativeCommons/pub­lic domain videos at Inter­netArchive (rec­om­mended)

           
          3. Win.MovieMaker (quickly “trim” & speed-up vids; ~60 clips)
           
          4. WeVideo

            — sequence vids (with tran­si­tions) & audio tracks

           

              note this is 3 parts com­piled as one (thus, about 2-3x longer than nec­es­sary) — included here only to show A.) use of free soft­ware (although I do have WeV­ideo Pre­mium through CU)
              and B.) extent of “abstract” com­pos­ing, per­form­ing a “theme” or idea
              — using ready­made mate­r­ial (mostly films & “found footage,” drawn from & inspired by Per­sonal Data­bases (not all 4 explic­itly), “re-purposed” as per­sonal expression…

               

               
               

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