Project Two
TIME-BASED COMMUNICATION 2
YSDN 3013 (S) Winter Term I Academic Year 2008/2009
CREATIVE PROJECT TWO.
Assigned: February 13, 2009
Length of Project: Classes 7-12 (Feb 27–April 3)
Project grade breakdown: 30% of final grade.
Duration: 2 – 5 min. for most works.
Shorter works (30 sec- 2 min) will be considered if mostly animated. If planning a shorter animation, please discuss your plans with the instructor before proceding.
This is an individual project. Collaborations between two students may be considered, but must be proposed in writing and approved by the instructor by Februrary 27.
Deadlines:
March 6: Proposal, storyboard due.
March 20: Rough Cut due for presentation and feedback.
March 27: Fine Cut due for class critique.
April 3: Final DVD presentations, hand-in & final evaluation.
Objectives.
Creative Project 2 is designed to give students the opportunity to pursue their particular interests and curiosities with respect to different time-based media, formal approaches, and techniques. Students are expected to apply their understanding of principles learned in other aspects of the course to their own independently initiated creative project work. They are also expected to further develop and fine tune any technical skills they need in order to realize their ideas.
Learning Objectives:
– to strengthen students’ creative and technical problem solving skills, and independent initiative
– to advance students’ understanding of their own particular time-based media creative design process
– to further develop proposal writing and project presentation skills
– to advance their video production and editing skills
– to develop specialized technical skills in an area particular to their interests
– to acquire an introductory understanding of DVD authoring
Overview
Working with a combination of any two (or more) of live-action video, animation, text, or sounds, communicate the drama or poetry of three (or more) things that fascinate, pre-occupy, anger, or irritate you.
Finish the work to DVD, using DVD Studio Pro. The final product must be a coherent work, and communicate an underlying idea, message, or impression. The graphic elements of the DVD interface should support, echo, or work in counterpoint to the ideas communicated in the video.
Deliverables:
Each indiividual should submit:
1. A Project Proposal or Creative Brief (200-300 words), supported by a storyboard.
2. A CD or DVD containing a Quciktime (DV NTSC 48 kHz) .mov data file of your final video.
3. One authored DVD compilation of the final work. This can consist of a single sequence, or as separate works each with their own ‘buttons’. The DVD should work in a standard DVD player.
4. A page on each of your individual blogs that includes:
- video linked to page from You Tube or Vimeo for your final video
- a summary of critical feedback and learning.
- credit information
- documentation of your design process/ work-in-progress
Guidelines & Expectations
I expect you to to put some time and work into the project outside of class time, to work toward the realization of a concept you have in mind at the outset of the project, and to make the effort to think your ideas through as you work on the project, revising and refining them if necessary.
I expect you to pay attention to the rhythm and pace of your piece, to consider its progression from beginning to end, and to produce a final work that feels coherent, complete, creative, and concise.
I hope to see you working with tensions between what we see on screen and what we imagine in mind, and between sound or words and visual images. I also hope to see interesting, original, engaging, playful, surprising, intelligent, and/or insightful works.
Make sure your audio and video levels meet basic technical standards. What you mean to be audible should be audible, text you mean to be legible should be legible, and the video should look like you intend it to look. Avoid: distorted audio and video signals, extraneous unwanted sounds and visual artifacts (aka noise) including drop-out, under / over modulation, digital artifacting, hiss, hums, pops, etc.
The Project Proposal should include:
- course code and name
- instructor’s name (Mary Daniel)
- date of proposal submission
- your name
- the title of your proposed project
- a description of the envisioned work
- a storyboard
- additional supporting visual or text elements, where appropriate
Credit information, at the end of the work, should include:
- creator’s name
- course/section
- project title
- Iistructor’s name
- York/Sheridan Joint Program in Design
- acknowledgement of other contribuors, where applicable
- Your Name © 2008.
Evaluation
Concept development, ideas: Originality of ideas and their relevance to ideas raised and principles discovered in other aspects of the course; analysis of formal and conceptual challenges of the assignment; effective integration/interplay of form, content and thematic concerns. 30/100
Refinement of the Concept: Developing a creative and effective approach to the execution of your concept; ability to take youe initial ideas and develop/ improve on them; ability to critically assess the project’s strengths and weakness, to respond constructively to feedback, and to solve technical or creative problems arising. 30/100
Technical Quality: Development and refinement of techniques that are appropriate to the concept. Technical quality and control of the final video project, in terms of composition, exposure, audio levels, et al. 20/100
Presentation: Materials ready for project deadlines and scheduled presentations. Demostrated work ethic and professional conduct. Ability to explain (verbally and in writing) your conceptual, creative, aesthetic and technical descisions. Quality of documentation detailing your design process and learning 20/100.
Schedule
Reading Week:
Writing for inspiration; first ideas.
Feb 27: Bring in first ideas for discussion.
Work on proposals. Initiate technical research.
Mar 6: Project proposal due.
Plan and shoot video footage/ animations.
Mar 13: Present rushes/ work in progress. Desk crits/ edit project 2.
Work on picture and sound edit. Complete rough cut.
Mar 20: Rough cut due. Present for peer feedback.
Revisions, final sound & picture editing, including title, credits, text elements.
Mar 27: Fine cuts due. Class critique & evaluation.
Technical tweaking. Finish for distribution. Create DVD interface and additional elements.
April 3: Final DVD packages due. Present and submit for final evaluation.
Final support materials posted to blogs for evaluation.
