Shaving head a male privilege?

Here is my final video.

Jordan Final Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNZnLoytvc

I hate Dada art. 

Generation of War

Here is my final video project. I wanted to interpret the extreme difference between the significance of actual war and how war is portrayed in video games. In our generation kids are being more and more desensitized to war through video games and don't take it seriously anymore. Video games are making a mockery of the dark side of war and acting like it is just a game when war is an actual serious matter in which people are dying and countries are fighting.

What I did is compiled audio and video files from real war scenes and video games. I put the sound of the video games over top the war scenes and vice versa to make this comparison. I chose the most intense and moving war scenes I could find and the dumbest and surreal video games scenes I could find to up that contrast even more. Then I added the "Ode to Joy" in the background to signify this joke of war that is being made.

How do you see Bikers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrXIztXmts

When I first started this project I had wanted to do a comparison piece, however this project changed quite a bit. Instead it is now more about the "real" bikers and not what the media would have you believe they are like. This is because I didn't want there to be anyway to misinterpret my intentions for this video.

As I started to work on this piece I found a lot of shorter videos that I wanted to use, when through them and cut out anything that I felt didn't fit with the message I was trying to give. I then had to cut out a lot of footage that I felt was either redundant or unnecessary. I then had to edit out a little more just to make it a bit shorter. Finally I put it all together and Voila, there was my video. :)

Michael Jordan Media

 My first idea for this project was to take clips of NBA games with the ball edited out, along with other objects, to accentuate the movements and footwork of players and to demonstrate how much of the sport is practice. Unfortunately, it's a long and tedious process to edit things out so I changed my idea for the sake of time.

I still wanted to do a piece relating to basketball and the first idea that came to me was to do on piece on Michael Jordan. I wanted to show case his career, presenting it like a fairy tale, and wanted to show how much of an icon he was globally. For the second part of the piece I wanted to show the shadow he has cast, both, intentionally career wise, and unintentionally through the media, on basketball players that have come after him and how unfair it is for people to compare them (the whole next Jordan craze).

As I was working on the media section of the piece (Jordan Media) I noticed that it was getting long and I was getting detailed so I decided to focus on that area and so I made my piece on that. I don't know if I will finish my original broad subject but I believe this media portion can stand on it's own and that is what I will present for this class. The video includes various Jordan Media: commercials, music videos, and a movie. I edited clips together in the attempt to create a cohesive video (visually and subject wise).

Plastic Ocean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul413pRt8cE&feature=youtu.be

So I had a lot of trouble coming up with ideas that I was really excited about but I decided to go with the environment theme because the first time I saw anything about the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch I was really moved by it. I put images of the garbage patch next to a factory where they are making plastic. I wanted the viewer to see how easy it is to make plastic and how it is so easy to mass produce it. I was originally going to go with a happier song to show how easy it is to look at these images but focus more on something else that is going on in our lives. I used The Beach Boys song, don't go near the water because the Ocean is slowly becoming more and more toxic.

I found several different videos of plastic factories and trash from plastic bottles. I also found several images on beaches and from boats that show the floating garbage along with the suffering marine life. I paired these with different audio from different documentaries and news specials on the garbage patch. I admit that the video is a little dry but it does mean a lot to me and I hope someone can take something from it.

2012 London Olympic Springboard diving - Bonnie

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDg2NzE2MDUy.html

At the beginning, I was trying to create a video about dogs and cats fighting together. However, it's hard to make that weird so I changed me mind to the springboard diving. People's face changed weird and twist during the process of their jumping form the spring board. So I make the process slow down and become the above video.

Bonnie

Women in Reality Television

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah2vhd1JNiQ&feature=youtu.be

For this final project we had to use found art to create a video. For my idea I was thinking that I would show how women were viewed on reality television and kind of make it into a humorous rendition. Nowadays the type of television show that seems to be taking over the industry is reality television. Reality television is just a false interpretation of real life using unknown actors instead of known celebrities.  The way women are represented on these shows only add to the typical stereotypes of women. The stereotype that I decided to focus on is the fact that a lot of men believe that all females are overly dramatic and emotionally unstable. These reality shows depict this by showing the girls constantly arguing, crying, fighting and or getting highly intoxicated.

                The process I did was just going on Youtube and looking up reality shows that I know show women to be crazy. Such as Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, The Bad Girls Club, Teen Mom, I love New York, etc. I took little clips of each video and put them all together and then adding an additive transition fade so that all of the videos kind of blend together to show the similarity in what is playing out on screen. For the background music I decided that I would choose a fun song about girls so I picked Cyndi Lauper’s song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

Morning Routine

We all share a similarity of having a morning routine. Regardless of our background or where we are in the morning, there is some structure involved. I thought it would be interesting to combine Youtube clips showcasing the similarities we share among one another. I initially thought to show the tasks we do throughout the day, but quickly realized it would take way too many clips to gather a full day's worth of time. Time of course in itself shortened the amount I could take on for the project.

So I began mapping out all the minor tasks we do, whether we consciously do them or not, and tasks I believe the vast majority of people take care of in the morning. One problem I faced was how the demographics of youtube viewers and/or those who submit clips are skewed. It certainly is not as diverse of a showing of people as the overall public truly is. This being said, my video will not be as diverse as everyone's morning routine, but as generalized as I thought it could be provided the resources remain with Youtube.

Morning Routine

FINAL PORTFOLIO - DUE ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 14TH BY 2PM

All files of everything you did in this class should be burned onto a cd with your name on it and left in my mailbox in the school of art office by 2pm on December 14th. Please include a note if you have changed anything since the original critique.

Drawing Fighting Paper animation incomplete/progress

This my progress on my animation project. So far, its been one of the most tedious things I have ever done but it has been fun to do. It still needs a lot of work but here is my progress thus far. Since it is incomplete some of the video maybe too fast or too slow, there are also images I need to take out, and not all the sound is there.

Updated Dec. 14 2012. Still unfinished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCV2L0c6K0

Drinking Out of Cups

This video always makes me laugh.
Recording of a guy who dropped acid, he was in a closet talking to himself and his friends put it on youtube and put him in the form of a lizard. 

Musical Bus Stop

So I've been editing this quite a bit today and I think it's ready!!

Why don't we fall in love?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9FZdyy5HUk&feature=youtu.be

So I really wanted to make my video more playful and fun to watch than before. I wanted to engage the  viewer with the gross sounds, heart tugging music and familiar sounds that we are all used to. I used most of my sounds from freesound.org and took pieces of songs that I thought would fit the images best. Putting sounds to my animation was truly a fun thing to do, I am really proud of the humor in this.

And I basically found the different noises by typing in "ghost booing" or car crash. It was fairly easy, some sound were harder than others. I downloaded all of them to my computer then imported them to premiere. I had a lot of trouble saving my video, had to redo it not once but twice. Finally was able to upload it to youtube.

Enjoy.

Final version of Bears and Aliens

I wanted to continue with the fun, silliness of this video while adding to the feeling of space ships. While getting the "candy" sounds wasn't as easy as I originally thought, it was still a lot of fun. As for the space ship sounds, I had far too many choices and had a hard time deciding what fit the best with what I wanted.

After trying unsuccessfully to get the candy sounds myself, I gave up and found a sound bite at Freesound.org. The space ship sounds are recordings I did from a movie titled "Rocketman" and also from my younger sister. These recordings were made and edited using Audacity. The laughing is from a youtube video that I captured the sound from using listentoyoutube.com and edited in Audacity.

Jordan Stop Motion

http://youtu.be/RCfF166HZYM

The Desert's Ocean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khgA9dvqQgQ&feature=youtu.be

I felt it was all too easy to fall into making a music-video for the video, so I took a look at the pace of the video-clip. The pace certainly starts off fairly slow and progressively works its way into a quicker pace. This could be due to the rotation of the sun, but regardless, I decided I should have the vast majority of sound art reflect sounds emitted from the sky. I originally had the video without the piano, but I felt it needed a backbone to the video. Yes, the video in itself with the strong wind gusts should be enough, but the journey of the video needed a journey of a solo instrument.

The sounds were chosen from freesound.org, and as for fitting specific sounds in the with video, it seemed natural to place the progression of audio where it seemed necessary to maintain a graduate increase in sound.

Finished Audio Animation

After watching my stop animation over and over again I finally decided on the sounds I wanted to incorporate. For my animation I really wanted to kind of go for noises that were realistic considering the actual plot of the film is quite the opposite of realistic. I got most of my sounds from the website freesound.org and then I also got a few from youtube.com. When deciding what noise I wanted to be playing, I watched my video and tried to imagine what noise would be made if I were watching my film play out in real life. The part that I had the most difficulty with was the voice of the characters. I was not sure if I should have made them had sounds for voices or actual voices. When I decided that I wanted to give them personalities, I went with giving them actual voices. For the murderer I chose a disoriented noise of a record being scratched. This noise really gave the eerie, bad guy kind of vibe.

Like I said previously, I found most of these noises on freesound.org. to get the constant background noise of birds chattering, I typed in “early morning” and then used the first option. For the voices, I went on to youtube and searched “simish language” and then found a video where there were multiple sim voices, it was exactly what I needed. Then I just converted that video using a youtube video converter website. For the rest of the noises I just typed in the sound I believed it would have made in real life.  

After

All I want to show people is that we need to spend much more time to stay with ourselves.

The Sonic Screwdriver

Here is my finalized submission for stop motion and sound. Basically when I approached this, I wanted the sound effects in my movie to be literal and believable (to an extent, because of course this movie is science fiction). So I went through the frames and decided which sounds I needed for each action. Most are actual sounds that objects will make, but I did need some Doctor Who sounds to add that science fiction touch. So on the BBC Doctor Who website I found the actual sounds of a sonic screwdriver, the TV show's theme song, and some additional effects that I thought would be fun to include.

Constructing the soundtrack to my stop motion was the even easier than the stop motion itself. I gathered all my sounds and created a spread sheet that mapped out which sounds would go where and their duration. Referencing my spread sheet, I began to piece together the sound with the video. I added the Doctor Who theme song as background music so the silent parts of the film wouldn't be awkward or boring. Some sounds I had to cut or lengthen in order to be consistent with the video, but that was easy. I didn't need to do much sound editing because the quality of all my sounds were pretty clear, even if I had recorded them myself. Very impressed with my iPhone for being capable of that! The only major sound editing I had to do was to make some sounds louder or quieter when overlapped with another sound at the same time so they wouldn't drown each other out and you would be able to hear the more significant sounds better while still having the other sounds for dynamism.

I am very pleased with how the sound turned out. There is nothing I would want to take out and nothing I would add (adding more would just be too much). Enjoy!

sound art installation

I thought this was pretty cool. wonder how they did it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_htoSaQFf4

This guy takes a movie or several movies and uses the sound from them to create a song.

I'm a little unsure of what defines sound art, but I think this is cool.

The Movie《Let The Bullets Fly》music

Jou Hisaishi is a famous Japanese dramatist, singer and pianist. He always create music for film soundtracks such as Miyazaki Hayao. This is for Jiang Wen's movie <Let the Bullets Fly> and the video is Jou Hisaishi's concert in Paris. I could image when I listening to the music and I think it's a sound art.

 Jou Hisaishi is a famous Japanese dramatist, singer and pianist,but he always works for film soundtracks, such as Miyazaki Hayao. 

This is for Jiang Wen's movie <Let The Bullets Fly> and the video is Jou Hisaishi's concert in Paris. I could image when I listening to the music and this is what I understand about the sound art. Enjoy!

Jou Hisaishi is a famous Japanese dramatist, singer and pianist. He always create music for film soundtracks such as Miyazaki Hayao. This is for Jiang Wen's movie <Let the Bullets Fly> and the video is Jou Hisaishi's concert in Paris. I could image when I listening to the music and I think it's a sound artJou Hisaishi is a famous Japanese dramatist, singer and pianist. He always create music for film soundtracks such as Miyazaki Hayao. This is for Jiang Wen's movie <Let the Bullets Fly> and the video is Jou Hisaishi's concert in Paris. I could image when I listening to the music and I think it's a sound ar

Bertoria Sounding Sculpture and Outside In

Sound art.... I think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B0hGyKV9qs

Singing, Ringing Tree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBJJ1jOc-7k

Blackpool High Tide Organ

Sound Art

http://margaretnoble.net/blog/gross-domestic-product/#respond

Sound Art

http://youtu.be/LoBRhUJkOeQ

Sound Art?

I am still a little confused on what is defined as sound art, but it seems it is music that carries no emotional ties to it. All listened gather varied emotions and feelings, because the tone and type of music doesn't allow for there to be any unified connection among listeners.

I think I am right? Maybe.... well , HERE is a video-clip that goes with my theory/thoughts on sound art.

-Taylor

Sound Art

I think this is an example of sound art but i'm not sure. I haven't really found any credible definition of Sound Art.

Michelle's Stop Motion Animation

My video idea was kind of to show what happens to an object when it is thrown away or lost. I used just simple objects that I had laying around my room and then used chalk to create the dialoge. I wanted to create a quick story that had drama. I had fun with this! Enjoy.

The Desert's Ocean

Here you go! If you have them, you'll want to throw headphones on and also play the video in its highest quality.

 This video was supposed to be a story between a couple in love and a fight can become out of control. I started out with the heart to emphasis that they were in a relationship but I lost the pictures where they very first start fighting. It goes straight to me running him over, then basically we keep seeking revenge on each other until I end up taking it over the line and killing him. It ends with us both as ghosts holding hands.



Basically I just took a massive amount of pictures of me and my boyfriend, sometimes we had to set it on a stand and sometimes someone else had to take them. We also used an application that automatically took the pictures every second and then would arrange them into a video. I arranged the pictures the best that I could to fit the story I originally had. This program is really new to me so I had quite a few problems but I would consider working with it again.

Bears and Aliens

Become Creation Unfinished

This is my animation video. I wanted to do something with monsters again as that is what's important to me, and I wanted to somewhat portray how I make these things.  People ask me all the time how I come up with these things and I wanted to show that even though these creations are separate from me they are still part of me and I am a part of it. 

"Musical Bus Stop"-- Unfinished

Whoo.. Alright. I did this video for today to show some clips from my final project that I would like to do, with the title "Musical Bus Stop" as the generic name right now. I have various instruments which I am trying to bring to life. So far I have captured all of the percumsion and guitars, and I just need to finish adding my cello and keyboard. I am making all of these instruments "walk" to a bus stop, which , when audio is placed, will show add-ons of different layers of music which I will be creating myself. With each instrument that is introduced, I am going to include a new little tune, and at the end, when they are all at the bus stop, it's going to be a big song. I am going to walk up into the frame as well, as the only human in the video, and start humming or singing something. That's when the "bus" (a little toy bus I bought at Wal-mart and which I painted over) is going to drive up in the foreground of the images and "pick us up") That's when the music will fade away. I am still in the process of understanding Adobe Premiere, but I am really excited to finish this up.

stop-motion animation: After by Bonnie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEyuJyZb03w&feature=plcp
Here is a clearly one.

The Sonic Screwdriver

My stop motion is about an amazing tool from the TV show Doctor Who called the sonic screwdriver. It can basically do anything and control anything so I thought it would be fun to make a video showing it. My friend Eric and I plotted out what crazy things we wanted the screwdriver to do, organizing them a sequence with the most ridiculous ones towards the end. We shot all the photos and I adjusted the lighting and put them all together.

The Desert's Ocean

Please listen with headphones or speakers of some sort. The music played with the video strengthens the footage (in my opinion).

Enjoy guys,
Taylor

Marcel the Shell

Western Spaghetti by PES, another cool animation

Another excellent animation, named Laundry day

Taylor's Stop-motion

http://vimeo.com/1185346

Bruce Lee vs Iron Man Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4

stop motion animation example

Here is my example of stop motion animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9drbC7NbrY

Frist thing i think of when i hear stop motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CI3Su7yPkA

robot chicken Gummi Bear

MUTO a wall painted by BLU

http://vimeo.com/993998

I love this video.

Lego Alien City Conquest

I thought this was done well. Also, I love Legos.

Stop Motion Bonnie

Wallace & Gromit is my favorite foreign animation.I feel the story and design of the characters are so cool.

Stop Motion Jordan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXM3wrIhcwY&feature=player_embedded

I thought this was a cool video.  When I was younger I liked to watch stop motion clay animations, and even did some attempts with animating with clay.