Wunderkammer

PART TWO: Building Your Cabinet

By the end of class today:

Use your images to create the first draft of your cabinet. Your cabinet should unfold to have sides that are at least 18 inches, but the dimensions other than that are up to you - ie. it may be square or rectangular.

1. Create a sketch of your plan for your cabinet. Will it be symmetrical? How will the collections be arranged: side by side, intermixed, by shape, size, color, meaning? Will you have one or two large images and many small ones, or images of equal size with some objects cut out with the pen tool? Will objects overlap? Is one collection subordinate to the other? Will there be a unified background? What exists in the space between objects? Is this collection contemporary or nostalgic? Will you borrow from the language of other collections you've seen - ie. fashion, automotive, gallery, etc.? How does your arrangement reflect the meaning and purpose of your collections?

2. Use a grid as a starting point. Arrange your images according to your sketch. Hang by 10:15. Can be tiled. Indicate areas where you need to reshoot your images, or where you have decided to add new content

NOTE: Formulate your ideal audience. This should consist of 3-5 people whose opinion you value and trust, whose taste you admire, whom you seek to interest and impress. Check in with yourself now and then to evaluate whether your cabinet would interest this select audience of few.

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HW

due next week:

1. Reshoot as necessary. I expect you to reshoot some of your images as you formulate your cabinet. If you do not reshoot that indicates that your project is not evolving. Consider the suggestions we made in class

2. Rearrange and revise your cabinet. Consider the folds - how will the cabinet unfold - what is the progression? This should be a similar thought process as in ordering your slideshow. Is there a moment of revelation?

3. Black and white full-size printout hung at the beginning of class next week (bring all files to class)

PS YOU MUST POST YOUR SLIDESHOW TO THE BLOG BY FRIDAY

Wunderkammer

PART ONE: Visual Research
Before you begin shooting, write a sentence describing why you want to examine each collection, ie. what is interesting about it. You can shoot objects, people, artifacts of a significant event or place, etc.

FOR NEXT WEEK:

Shoot 2 "collections"
For each collection you must include:
10 images of entire collection
10 shots of individual 'objects'
10 detail shots of 'objects'
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= 30 images per collection

print out 30 images as thumbnails, 10 per 8.5 x 11 color print

print out 3 from each grouping per collection, at least 8 x 10, trimmed to edge (no borders)

Slideshow: technical hints

NOTE: Your slideshow should be modeled after the slideshows we viewed in class (although they do not need to be newsworthy - you may push the format as long as the sequence creates a narrative. Consider how you wish to affect the viewer - will you create an emotional arc?

Editing the Audio

You can edit your Audio using Garage Band or another audio-editing tool into a brief (40-second to 1-minute) narration track. Don't include music unless there was music playing as part of the natural sound backdrop. The audio file should be short enough so that your photos fit comfortably in the audio timeframe. Save your audio as an .mp3 file. Garageband allows you to choose Share/Export File to Mp3. However, if you have i-tunes you can also select your sound file (within i-tunes) and convert it right in there (choose Advanced/Convert Selection to MP3). Listen carefully to the audio in the slideshows (nytimes examples) to better understand levels and tapering.

A few bits of info to help you with your audio edit. Remember, Soundslides ONLY ACCEPTS MP3 FILES.

1. If you choose to edit within Garageband, some versions of Garageband allow you to Share/Export to Mp3. Some earlier versions won't have that option. SO what you need to do is choose Share/Send Song to i-Tunes, and then in i-Tunes, select the "song" and then choose Advanced/Convert Selection to Mp3.

2. Finally, if you're in Garage Band and you want to fade in or fade out your tracks (and you should), here is a video tutorial to show you how to click down the track that has the audio control points....

Building the Interactive Audio Slideshow

With your photographs and your completed .mp3 file, you're ready to build the slideshow. Using the 10 best images you have, build a slideshow narrative with audio. You can do this using a program you are comfortable with already, or use the flash-based SoundSlides software, which you can download onto your computer (demo version is just fine for this project--you don't have to buy the software, but you will need to have a Flash Reader on your computer).

Saving your Slideshow: Save your slideshow on a CD or USB and bring it to class next week, when we will view it in class. You need to save ALL the folders within your project on the CD/USB to make the slideshow work (not just the .swf file). When all those folders are in one place, you activate the slideshow by opening up either the index.html file or the .swf file

Project 1: Sequential Imagery

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audio slideshow

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resources: New York Times' One in 8 Million, long photographs, faaast, the crooked road, 17th grandstand, chucking out, sauta, David Lynch's Interview Project

Due next week Jan 26th:

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1. Read brief article: Frozen Fire

2. Interview an interesting person you know. Formulate your interview questions in advance. Sshare with us something that we might not have access to, ie. interviewing your friend from Otis might not be that interesting. Record the interview (recorders available in the downstairs video lab). You can also use your computer to record the audio via skype or another program. Record sound from the space the person inhabits, or audio that relates to the conversation you had. Keep a log of your recordings.

3. Present audio as sound excerpts (we will have a computer cart for your use). Describe your plan for your audio slideshow. The examples above are pretty newsy; your content can be more abstract or expressive. You can choose to illustrate the content of the interview, develop a photographic theme centering on one interesting comment, or create tension with the audio content through contrast. Show us 2 test images that represent your plan.

Due Feb 2nd:

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1. Read article: The Post Photographic Age

1. Shoot a series of images that follow the plan you presented to the class. Take 80 to 100 images (bring all to class on usb). You can also record HD video and present stills if you wish. Print the 20 best images 4-up on 8.5 x 11 paper.

2. Present a rough version of your slideshow with at least 10 images and 40-60 seconds of sound. Audio can also consist of diegetic sound (sound that occurred as image was being taken or from the environment), sound taken from other sources (online, etc). The images should be enhanced by the sound but not rely upon it.

NOTE: You can use Soundslides free demo, iMovie, Keynote, Flash, or whatever simple program you feel comfortable with that combines still images with audio. I will post more info on Soundslides as it is the standard.

Due Feb 9th:

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Final slideshow due for in-class screening!

artist’s book, light experiments, text and imagery by Jessica Louise Dillon, 2010.

(other text excerpts included: Josef Albers Interaction of Color, Take Your Time: A Conversation Olafur Eliasson and Robert Irwin, and Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees, Lawrence Weschler and Robert Irwin)

Final Project

file naming conventions

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For each project:
2010_imagemakingA_buchanan_firstname_lastname.tif
2010_imagemakingA_buchanan_firstname_lastname.jpg

place files in folders named for projects: ON DESKTOP
Sequential Imagery
Magical Realism
Wunderkammer
Deception
Portraiture
Final Project
EC: Landscape
EC: Picture w/in Picture

tiff should be 300 dpi and cmyk. jpg should be 72 dpi and rgb.