Canadian Design Resource

CyberARTS 2 - Please browse through the "Canadian Design Resource. Look particularly at ceramics, but also peruse a variety of other design categories. Then, choose a favourite product design & share it on your blog, along with a paragraph about why you chose it.
  http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/

YEAR 3 TECH: Music videos over the last 3 decades

Check out the technology used in this music video. You need to open it in Google Chrome. It uses HTML 5.

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Also, please take a look at the history of music videos - which began in the 1980s with MTV. According to U.S. Time magazine, these are the best 30 music videos of all time.
Best 30 Music Videos

Here is another "Best 30 Music Videos of All Time" by Music Radar
These seem a little more underground. Also more contemporary. Check them out as well.
Check out #22 Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar for some amazing editing and perfect sync-ing.


Take a look through both the Arcade Fire video and the article on the 30 best music videos. Watch a minimum of 9 of the videos and read the summaries below - making sure you watch at least 2 per decade. There are 10 per decade in the article.

Exercise:
FIRST Write a blog post...
1. Summarizing your thoughts, opinions and inspiration from the 9 videos you watched.

2. Which ones do you consider works of art in their own right? and Why? Note: The first video - Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime" was exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

3. Also, comment on the types of changes you noticed through the decades. (Lighting, editing, sophistication, pace etc.)

4. How does the Arcade Fire video compare to the earlier decades?

5. What's next in music videos in your opinion?

THEN...

Embed two videos (the ones you find the most compelling, artistically) into your blog post
1. Comment on the pacing, artistic style, lighting and artistic intent/meaning of each of the posted videos.
2. How do the videos visually express the emotional theme of the music? Look at specific imagery, pace, style, lighting etc.

Lighting for Video and Film

Here is a great video that clearly describes a basic three-point lighting set up with a black background, a white background and also a film noir, moody set up.
Three Point Lighting Tutorial

Here's one on using a green screen. Very handy for eliminating the background and adding graphics or any other kind of background.
Green Screen Tutorial

5 deadly sins of Amateur Video

Making your video look like film. Check out this video
Simple special fx

Your task:


1. Find a tutorial/video on the web that explains how to create some DIY lighting (i.e. softbox or other diffusion lighting techniques) that gives you a similar quality to professional lighting, but for a fraction of the cost.
Post this on your blog with a written summary of the video.

2. Find a tutorial/video on the web that explains how to create special fx of some kind and post it on your blog with a summary of the video.

TED Talk on Billy Collins and Animated Poetry

Hey CyberARTists. Here is something you should all check out, as poetry animators and afficionados.

Billy Collins: Everyday Moments Caught in Time