Culminating Portfolio

As part of your culminating activity for this class, you must establish yourself in an online community as a cyberARTist. There are numerous professional-looking, yet free, online websites that allow you to present your work with brief descriptions (artist statements). It's time to get busy folks. Start now by searching for the online portfolio site that's right for you. Keep in mind, you will want to have one that includes video.
Your site should include a minimum of 12 pieces from both art and tech, however at least 7 must be from the tech classes. They can also be from the past three years of your cyberARTS classes.
The music video you are currently working on must be included, along with the promotional poster you are creating to go with it.

Requirements:
Easy to use (as a viewer)
Must display your work in a clean and professional format
Must have a space for text (your artist statements)
Must have contact information
You must also link to a facebook page (not your personal one, but a facebook page for your artwork) or other secondary social networking site
You must accurately tag and categorize your site (ie. illustration, design, fine art, multimedia etc.) based on the work you are displaying


Here are a few sites to get you started:
Note that some of them have immediate access to job postings (something to think about for your careers assignment!)
http://carbonmade.com/
http://www.behance.net/
http://www.weebly.com/
http://www.krop.com/
http://www.coroflot.com (I don't think this one has video, but it does have a design jobs section)

Try this one to add video too:
http://shownd.com/

Music Video Assignment: Addendum

Your music video assignment, once completed with your individually written reports will also require a wee bit of marketing.
Your assignment (see handout) is to create a large promotional poster to advertise the release of the album or song by the artist you chose. You will be required to create an original image, either a graphic that is created on the computer (Illustrator or Photoshop) or an original photograph, or a combination. However, since this is a large poster, you must make sure that you are working with an appropriate resolution for your end product, which must be printable in CMYK colour mode.

Here is an article on image resolution to refresh your memory or give you a more in depth look at image resolution.
Here is an article on colour modes from adobe. Here is another from a graphic design perspective

Keep in mind, you will have no problem creating an image using the D3100 that can be printed up to 11x14" at 300 p.p.i, however the D50s will only allow printing up to 12x8" at 300 p.p.i.  It is often stated that one can print at  240 p.p.i, however professionals still always use 300.

While you may feel that you don't need to read these articles, please do, as the information covered in them will be on the final exam. I will be reviewing this ahead of time, but make sure you read the articles and take notes, summarizing the key information. We will review it in class next week.


Links to articles on good poster design
Posterdesigners

This one is quite good and gives 27 tips on good poster design

ASSIGNMENT: For a research assignment, find 3 posters you think are really well designed and using the 27 tips from the 3rd article, critique the posters designs.

Generative Art links:

Here's the video about leading "generative artist", Casey Reas that we saw in Seminar today.

Don't forget to start exploring his software "Processing", that we've newly installed. Also try "Quadrium"
Be sure to refer to the "tutorials" to help you!

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.

www.thewildernessdowntown.com

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