CSC391/691 Digital Video and Animation Fall 2006 Burg The “Prufrock” Project Where are we as of 9/15/06?

We’re in the “experiment, learn the tools, and make a plan” stage By next Tuesday morning (Sept. 19), each group should create a very short compressed movie file demonstrating whatever images you’re working on at the moment. Choose your compression and file type and tell me why you chose it in your writeup. I want the file to be reasonably small. You can store the file on the Digital Media Lab computer and tell me where it is, or give it to me via memory stick, etc. if this is possible. As before, do a write-up for the class explaining how you did what you did.

Assignments Joe and Todd: Take a video of a cup of coffee, use a mask to make images show up in the coffee. Mark and Brad: Squeezing the universe into a ball. Jim and Patrick: One-night cheap hotels, make it look like dim 9mm style Will and Clifton: Put skull on the death figure Leah and Adam: Take footage for the last moment of Prufrock walking up to the door; fill in the bottom with ocean Adam and Steven: Make yellow smoke slide along the street rubbing its back on the window panes.

Still images Each student will also do a still image Tell me which image you choose by Monday, Sept. 18. Take a digital photograph or save a bitmap file from a movie clip. Edit it with special effects in Photoshop. You can do a composite of more than one Photograph. You can add vector graphics (e.g., using Illustrator) and/or text. Give the image a title – from one to five words long Submit a writeup telling how you made your photograph. Still images are due on September 25. We may weave some of these images into the final video.

Choices for images: 1. "the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.“ (Jim) 2. “let us go through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells.” (Patrick) 3. "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window- panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window- panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, And seeing that it was a soft October night, Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.“ (Adam) 4. “There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate;“ (Steven) 5. “For I have known them all already, known them all: Have know the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.“ (Todd) 6. “And I have known the eyes already, known them all – The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall“ (Joe) 7. “Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?“ (Will) 8. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.“ (Clifton) 9.“Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it toward some overwhelming question, To say, ‘I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all’” (Brad) 10.It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:” (Mark) 11.“No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise a prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous – Almost, at time, the Fool” (Adam) 12. ""I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.“ (Leah)

Collaborators Tom Chambers – Digital Artist, Zhaoqing University – – BurgChambers.pdfhttp:// BurgChambers.pdf Jason Romney, NCSA, Digital Sound Designer, School of Design and Production – – BurgRomney.pdfhttp:// BurgRomney.pdf Dr. Ed Wilson, Provost Emeritus, WFU – Richard Clabaugh, NCSA, School of Filmmaking –

Visitors Dr. Ed Wilson will talk with the class about “Prufrock” on Monday, September 25. Dr. Wilson taught English Literature at Wake Forest University, with a specialty in the Romantic period. He was later Provost of the University. We will record his reading of the poem on Tuesday, September 26. Richard Clabaugh would like to visit the class to talk about visual composition. He wants to see the clips we have so far.

What’s next? We’ll continue to experiment with the digital video tools until Wednesday, Sept. 27. Then will try to agree on a design for the timeline and try to get usable sequences and images. We need to decide on a platform or be certain that if we work on both Final Cut and Premiere we’ll be able to export sequences from one into the other. Experiment with effects on both platforms. Let me know if you want to experiment on the Mac.

Apologies up front We won’t necessarily use sequence or image you make