Silver Rage!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Last week of CLiC
I feel a bit under the weather today - my ear infection is killing me. Hopefully, I will be ok next week, working in CLiC again. If you need any help during the next week, do not hesitate to come over.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
CLIC new email
If you struggle with technology, email us and schedule your appointment!
New CLiC email is clic4u@gmail.com
We are waiting 4u in the library, just ask at the front desk.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
C-CC-CCCC
Maybe Copyright Man should collaborate with the Creative Commons Man during the 4Cs? LOL, loved the smart flash about letting the others use your work under certain conditions.
Check out the comic!
Teaser (video sentence) and Comments on readings
I must say that I got confused with the readings for this week. CCCC in San Francisco can do that to you. Plus, I am still trying to recover after a heavy Greek jetlag.
I read Pandey's chapter on saving, sharing, citing and publishing and it was pretty self explanatory. I definitely appreciate the Sample Citation List on page 76. Even though MLA guide talks about it in depth, it is great to have all the electronic sources on one page. I think I will make a paper copy of it tomorrow and hang it next to my computer screen. I mean, the upcoming project will require exact and proper citations.
Lessig's book, on the other hand, struck me as an outdated one. In technology, yesterday is already old. Free culture author's data goes back to 2004! That is not good!
I glanced at each chapter and read the Afterword, in particular the section on Music Liberation. In the past, I was very interested in the aspect of free software, free downloading versus ethic, and public domain. While doing my preMBA I wrote a paper with some other colleagues arguing that free music downloading was not illegal and therefore should not be prohibited. I used Sony Betamax courtcase (won by Sony) which claimed that using VCR was not illegal because it was merely shifting the time of shows emitted on TV.
Lessig predicted that in ten years file sharing would be less addictive. Well, he was wrong. Five years later people still enjoy free files online. They will keep downloading selfishly and openly in the next five years, too. Maybe then the real problem is in the right approach to the online marketing? If artists are really loosing money on free CDs drifting on the net, why nobody came up with a smart way of generating money from... downloading for free? I can look at the 3 sec. ad while downloading a song and I will be more that hapy to get it for free and to donate a penny from clicking on ad. Wouldn't you?
It was very scary to read about the broadband speed in 2004. It was 1.5 MB/s. Five years later we are obviously faster - 50-60 MB/s! Yay! Downloading was never easier! If you think it will ever change - well, think again.
Now a sentence or two about my teaser. I came up with a short talking about 3 NOUNS and one VERB. I used my recent visit to Greece as an inspiration and yes, the green picture is mine. I think that there has been a shift in my way of thinking about making the movies. I want to say less and show more. I want to manipulate. I want you to think about my intentions while watching the film.
My previous projects were always pretty straight forward - I got the matching music with matching words, everything was nicely spelled out, nicely connected with various transitions etc. I think that from now on I will try to practice the following:
- I will use the music to highlight the mood of my work, only sometimes with the lyrics,
- I will suggest the words only (in my project the green picture is suppose to make you think about the three nouns in my mind - forth noun is spelled out for you but again, it becomes a VERB, a loud call for action),
- I will value humor in my work,
- I will cut and weld short pieces of films together,
- I will collect less footage (why did I get 1200 GB of a memory again?),
- I will give clear credits to other people's work,
- I will look at others work to gain more inspiration,
- I will aim for diversity,
- I will make my subjects feel at ease (boy, those spontaneous movies are the best),
- I will not use transitions because they give the film a sense of amateourism,
- I will not exceed the time of 5-7 min,
- I will learn Final Cut ASAP, starting tomorrow,
- I will make storyboards, group images and videos and music in groups,
- I will wisely choose my medium (sometimes you can obtain more with a great idea than with a long and boring movie; i.e. in my teaser I kept thinking about the dramaturgy and I obtained it by three simple sounds - heartbeating to make the pictures alarming, greek music to make the connection/mood/humour and the gong sound to introduce an important concept - a new word, a Noun spelled out, but still shifting into a VERB - the only one in the sentence, calling for action.
Uff, that was a lot of writing. If you are still here with me I just want you to know that my project I HATE WRITING is still on and I will probably be working on it this Saturday. I am a bit scared, but also excited. FUN!
Please, let me know what you think about this video sentence. Dr. Carter, is it the right direction? I checked out page 34 and I know that my final project requires a lot of planning. Editing is a piece of cake - the real art is in the idea. I need to grip my audience and get them to watch my film. I am still circling around music choices. I am pretty sure though that I will do the video project. My editing elements would be supershort and comfortably interconnected. I think that I am not going to use transitions between the shorties, I will only implement some between main sections of IHW project.
Ok Sylwester, shut up now - let the peolpe watch your sentence. If you are watching it now, make sure and leave me your comment. I will use it to improve my work and you will be a co-author, in a way ;)
Wait! Before you play it, make sure and have your speakers on, then click on the HQ red button on the YouTube window. You need the high quality to receive my message!
I read Pandey's chapter on saving, sharing, citing and publishing and it was pretty self explanatory. I definitely appreciate the Sample Citation List on page 76. Even though MLA guide talks about it in depth, it is great to have all the electronic sources on one page. I think I will make a paper copy of it tomorrow and hang it next to my computer screen. I mean, the upcoming project will require exact and proper citations.
Lessig's book, on the other hand, struck me as an outdated one. In technology, yesterday is already old. Free culture author's data goes back to 2004! That is not good!
I glanced at each chapter and read the Afterword, in particular the section on Music Liberation. In the past, I was very interested in the aspect of free software, free downloading versus ethic, and public domain. While doing my preMBA I wrote a paper with some other colleagues arguing that free music downloading was not illegal and therefore should not be prohibited. I used Sony Betamax courtcase (won by Sony) which claimed that using VCR was not illegal because it was merely shifting the time of shows emitted on TV.
Lessig predicted that in ten years file sharing would be less addictive. Well, he was wrong. Five years later people still enjoy free files online. They will keep downloading selfishly and openly in the next five years, too. Maybe then the real problem is in the right approach to the online marketing? If artists are really loosing money on free CDs drifting on the net, why nobody came up with a smart way of generating money from... downloading for free? I can look at the 3 sec. ad while downloading a song and I will be more that hapy to get it for free and to donate a penny from clicking on ad. Wouldn't you?
It was very scary to read about the broadband speed in 2004. It was 1.5 MB/s. Five years later we are obviously faster - 50-60 MB/s! Yay! Downloading was never easier! If you think it will ever change - well, think again.
Now a sentence or two about my teaser. I came up with a short talking about 3 NOUNS and one VERB. I used my recent visit to Greece as an inspiration and yes, the green picture is mine. I think that there has been a shift in my way of thinking about making the movies. I want to say less and show more. I want to manipulate. I want you to think about my intentions while watching the film.
My previous projects were always pretty straight forward - I got the matching music with matching words, everything was nicely spelled out, nicely connected with various transitions etc. I think that from now on I will try to practice the following:
- I will use the music to highlight the mood of my work, only sometimes with the lyrics,
- I will suggest the words only (in my project the green picture is suppose to make you think about the three nouns in my mind - forth noun is spelled out for you but again, it becomes a VERB, a loud call for action),
- I will value humor in my work,
- I will cut and weld short pieces of films together,
- I will collect less footage (why did I get 1200 GB of a memory again?),
- I will give clear credits to other people's work,
- I will look at others work to gain more inspiration,
- I will aim for diversity,
- I will make my subjects feel at ease (boy, those spontaneous movies are the best),
- I will not use transitions because they give the film a sense of amateourism,
- I will not exceed the time of 5-7 min,
- I will learn Final Cut ASAP, starting tomorrow,
- I will make storyboards, group images and videos and music in groups,
- I will wisely choose my medium (sometimes you can obtain more with a great idea than with a long and boring movie; i.e. in my teaser I kept thinking about the dramaturgy and I obtained it by three simple sounds - heartbeating to make the pictures alarming, greek music to make the connection/mood/humour and the gong sound to introduce an important concept - a new word, a Noun spelled out, but still shifting into a VERB - the only one in the sentence, calling for action.
Uff, that was a lot of writing. If you are still here with me I just want you to know that my project I HATE WRITING is still on and I will probably be working on it this Saturday. I am a bit scared, but also excited. FUN!
Please, let me know what you think about this video sentence. Dr. Carter, is it the right direction? I checked out page 34 and I know that my final project requires a lot of planning. Editing is a piece of cake - the real art is in the idea. I need to grip my audience and get them to watch my film. I am still circling around music choices. I am pretty sure though that I will do the video project. My editing elements would be supershort and comfortably interconnected. I think that I am not going to use transitions between the shorties, I will only implement some between main sections of IHW project.
Ok Sylwester, shut up now - let the peolpe watch your sentence. If you are watching it now, make sure and leave me your comment. I will use it to improve my work and you will be a co-author, in a way ;)
Wait! Before you play it, make sure and have your speakers on, then click on the HQ red button on the YouTube window. You need the high quality to receive my message!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
San Francisco - Day 1
Providing the fact that Dallas was pouring in the morning today, San Francisco turned out to be sunny and engaging. I honestly can't wait to see the 4C's tomorrow.
Happy Spring Break, everyone! Get some rest and post some pictures of places you are going to go.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Help needed with IHW project
As you probably know, I am working simultaneously on two projects. One of them is about Hating Writing. I came up with 10 questions already (when, why, how, and so on) but I wouldn't mind an additional help with that. If you have any ideas, post them for me!
I am not listing my question here in order to avoid the writer's block.
Please, remember - there is no such thing as a stupid idea!
Thank you so much for any help!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Virus
We are experiencing some difficulties with our computers at the moment. If you want to be safe, do not plug anything into school computers. The virus we are talking about is called 'conficker' and can mess up your system pretty bad.Search for it on your machine!
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