AGENDA December 14, 2006
CHARLES STREET VIDEO AND TDSB PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY #2

9:00am-10:00- Reflection on Vtape screening. Review of video art genres.
Strategies for screening video art to students.

10:00-11:00 – Concept Development: media artists’ strategies, video project’s common stages and steps, montage vs. staged, concept development exercise ideas (thought map, aesthetics assignment, 1 min autobiography etc).

11:00am -12:00pm – Pre Production: location, storyboarding, scripts, general planning, tapes and timecode etc.

12:00pm – 1:00pm – lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm – Production: basic camera workshop with Greg: basic lighting and camera angles.

2:00pm-3:00pm – technology and theory discussion (Tom Sherman article, Dot Tuer article, various texts)

3:00pm-3:30pm – wrap up, planning for DAY #3.

CSV day one

Hello All,

It was a wonderful day yesterday for me too! Thanks for the positive feedback.

I will email you Aleesa's email as well as the digital of the screening list and my notes.

Here is the url for the flash animation I told you about: http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs12/f/2006/268/c/e/redkangac.swf

You have to download it to see it.

You will need extra memory to run Avid Free DV so I have sent in a request for a quote to upgrade the computers to 2 gigs of RAM. I will let you know asap.

Please see the 8 previous posts - and comment on the movies as you wish - also please respond to this post with any other items you would like to discuss. I will try to check here daily.

Kathy

csv discussion of video arts piece 1

1ST PERSON/CONFESSIONAL:
1. Lisa Steele, Birthday Suite, 13:00, 1974
"On the occasion of my 27th birthday I decided to do a tape that chronicled my passage through time. I have always been clumsy, tripping, dropping, falling with alarming regularity. This tape accepts the extent of the consequences." L.S.

csv discussion of video arts piece 2

2. Deirdre Logue, Eclipse, 4:20, 2005
In her studio, the artist fears the worst. Camera up close, we watch as she tries to determine the source of that strange internal cracking, all the while a sinister blackness descends upon her.
Eclipse is a part of a series entitled Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes. The series is a selection of 12 short works that record accomplishments without impact, small feats of moderate strength and moments of mild impudence. They are reflections on aging, breaking down and reparation. They are works that describe our need for intimacy and our fears of exposure. They are always, when we really wish they were just sometimes.

csv discussion of video arts piece 3

PERFOMANCE/PERSONNA
3. Colin Campbell, True/False, 9:00, 1972
In True/False, the artist makes a number of potentially revealing statements about himself, then verifies each statement as "true", and disqualifies each statement as "false". A play on the adage that the camera does not lie (but the artist probably does).

csv discussion of video arts piece 4

4. Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, I am a Conjuror, 8:30, 2003
I Am A Conjuror is a short science-fiction narrative about a couple who have revolutionized the course of medical and scientific history. We observe the couple as they go about their ordinary domestic lives. We watch them getting up, bathing, and talking about what their future holds. Beautifully shot and carefully paced, I Am A Conjuror asks the viewer to reconsider some of the most basic ideas we hold about science, culture and everyday life. I Am A Conjuror is one segment of a musical video-art science-fiction trilogy entitled The New Freedom Founders.

csv discussion of video arts piece 5

FOUND MEDIA
5. Mike Hoolboom, Hey Madonna, 9:00, 1997
The third in a series of correspondences with Madonna. Cast in the form of a letter, including synchronous moments (a doctor's visit, reminiscences about death), it narrates a tale of former lovers, one of whom has become positive. A fairytale of mourning.

csv discussion of video arts piece 6

6. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, I am a Boy Band, 5:10, 2002
A cloned boyband co-opts an Elizabethan madrigal to express its heartbreak over lost love.

CSV discussion of video arts piece 8

FORMAL
8. Kika Thorne and Adrien Blackwell, Sheet Sculpture, 9:00, 1997
Sheet Sculpture is a catalogue of the shapes made playful by two people under a sheet. While its physicality references landscape and roofing; its mediation removes it from the arena of performance and allows it to exist as sculpture, drawing a line between formalism and naturalisms.

CSV discussion of video arts piece 9

ACTIVISM
9. Jonathan Culp, Ghost Squat, 5:10, 2005
Toronto has a new mayor, but the reality of homelessness remains the same, as OCAP attempts to squat 590 Jarvis in November 2004. "Ghost Squat" attempts to re-vision the protest documentary, with the usual elements - speeches, marching, confrontation - reorganized visually, aurally and chronologically. With a haunting soundtrack from Toronto chamber-rock band

Kathy's Handout Page for OSEA

Hello and welcome to Kathy's handout page.

Here is the agenda for today:

Creating Real Art in the Virtual World (9:15 to 12:15)

9:00 Some recent facts and insights re: New Media, Education and the Arts
New Achievement Chart – (big handouts)

9:30 Web logs or “Blogging” –
Discussion of the nature of blogs and their cultural impact on youth culture
Our group blog is live now and can be reached at:
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/

10:00 Intro to Photo web logs and image storage services on the web

10:30 Internet Literacy and the legal
• “The legal”:copyright and other things
• Alan November and Internet Literacy
• how to get images online
• Image collection – finding images on the web and image filing and collection
• Collaborative list building of sources – to be created in out blog
• Images collection
• Images storage and presentation
• Website reference collection and storage – Looking at Art Resource

11:00 Collection X and the Nelson Mandela Park project

12:00 – Questions and follow-up

Agenda

Sorry I should have posted this before, but I did not want to fill the page of posts until you saw my intro - here is what we did yesterday, what we are doing today and tomorrow.

K

Day 1 Aug 29
AM – WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL WORLD
8:30 Reception and welcome –
NB. There will be no formal morning or afternoon break – please take breaks and refreshment as needed during work times.

9:00 Some recent facts and insights re: New Media, Education and the Arts
New Achievement Chart

9:15 Intro to the digital world – saying hello with instant messaging in TEL
Personal Reflections on best and worst experiences with technology
Discussion on PM, IM and it’s cultural impact on youth culture.

10:15 Web logs or “Blogging” –
Discussion of the nature of blogs and their cultural impact on youth culture
Our group blog is live now and can be reached at:
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/

10:30 Intro to Photo web logs and image storage services on the web

11:00 Internet Literacy and the legal
• “The legal”:copyright and other things
• Alan November and Internet Literacy
• how to get images online
• Image collection – finding images on the web and image filing and collection
• Collaborative list building of sources – to be created in out blog
• Images collection
• Images storage and presentation
• Website reference collection and storage – Looking at Art Resource

12:00 to 1pm Lunch and open studio - Sharing image collections - optional

PM – Content and Curriculum connections
1:00 – 3:00
Making Connections to the Curriculum – handout
Collection images in iPhoto – websites in a browser.
Beginning to flesh out Lesson Plan Template

3:00 – plan and homework for tomorrow:
Tomorrow we will be playing with: iPhoto, Garageband, iTunes and iDVD.
Please feel free to bring CDs of favourite songs and digitized pictures with you that relate to your theme as we will be creating illustrated slide shows podcasts and movies.


Day 2

9:00 Looking at Multimedia Components
Although we will be using Macintosh software for this section equivalent software is available for Windows for most functions.

Applications PC equivalent (or similar app)
iPhoto Software that comes with your digital camera
iTunes Windows Media Player
iMovie Movie Maker
Garageband Band in a Box?
Podcast software – Garageband ???
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Flash Macromedia Flash
Keynote Powerpoint


9:00 Playing with images - Collecting and organizing images in iPhoto – resizing and correcting in Photoshop

9:30 Playing with Sound – collecting songs: iTunes(WMP) and making your own:Garageband(Band in a Box)

11:00 Methods for putting it all together – Keynote/Powerpoint, iMovie, Podcast.

12:00 Lunch –

1:00 How to make a really cool slide show in iMovie.

3:00 show animation 101 to get people interested in animation – and talk about this method.

Day 3

9:00 Looking at Animations and short films –

10:00 How to get things moving in flash – creating an animated poem.

12:00 Lunch and capturing motion.

1:00 creating an animated poem?

2:30 – sharing.

My plans for each day

Sorry I should have posted this before, but I did not want to fill the page of posts until you saw my intro - here is what we did yesterday, what we are doing today and tomorrow.

K

Day 1 Aug 29
AM – WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL WORLD
8:30 Reception and welcome –
NB. There will be no formal morning or afternoon break – please take breaks and refreshment as needed during work times.

9:00 Some recent facts and insights re: New Media, Education and the Arts
New Achievement Chart

9:15 Intro to the digital world – saying hello with instant messaging in TEL
Personal Reflections on best and worst experiences with technology
Discussion on PM, IM and it’s cultural impact on youth culture.

10:15 Web logs or “Blogging” –
Discussion of the nature of blogs and their cultural impact on youth culture
Our group blog is live now and can be reached at:
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/

10:30 Intro to Photo web logs and image storage services on the web

11:00 Internet Literacy and the legal
• “The legal”:copyright and other things
• Alan November and Internet Literacy
• how to get images online
• Image collection – finding images on the web and image filing and collection
• Collaborative list building of sources – to be created in out blog
• Images collection
• Images storage and presentation
• Website reference collection and storage – Looking at Art Resource

12:00 to 1pm Lunch and open studio - Sharing image collections - optional

PM – Content and Curriculum connections
1:00 – 3:00
Making Connections to the Curriculum – handout
Collection images in iPhoto – websites in a browser.
Beginning to flesh out Lesson Plan Template

3:00 – plan and homework for tomorrow:
Tomorrow we will be playing with: iPhoto, Garageband, iTunes and iDVD.
Please feel free to bring CDs of favourite songs and digitized pictures with you that relate to your theme as we will be creating illustrated slide shows podcasts and movies.


Day 2

9:00 Looking at Multimedia Components
Although we will be using Macintosh software for this section equivalent software is available for Windows for most functions.

Applications PC equivalent (or similar app)
iPhoto Software that comes with your digital camera
iTunes Windows Media Player
iMovie Movie Maker
Garageband Band in a Box?
Podcast software – Garageband ???
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Flash Macromedia Flash
Keynote Powerpoint


9:00 Playing with images - Collecting and organizing images in iPhoto – resizing and correcting in Photoshop

9:30 Playing with Sound – collecting songs: iTunes(WMP) and making your own:Garageband(Band in a Box)

11:00 Methods for putting it all together – Keynote/Powerpoint, iMovie, Podcast.

12:00 Lunch –

1:00 How to make a really cool slide show in iMovie.

3:00 show animation 101 to get people interested in animation – and talk about this method.

Day 3

9:00 Looking at Animations and short films –

10:00 How to get things moving in flash – creating an animated poem.

12:00 Lunch and capturing motion.

1:00 creating an animated poem?

2:30 – sharing.

Moving Into Day 2

Well things seemed to go quite well yesterday. Sorry I promised to do this yesterday, but spinning class got in the way.

Here are the websites we referenced yesterday:

http://www.novemberlearning.com/ - great site re: Internet Literacy
www.blogger.com - for making your own blog
www.flickr.ca - photo blog
www.artcyclopedia.com - great site for art history images and info
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/ - my blog

I also have some documents that I will post for this course - you will find them in:

TEL > TDSB conferences > School Services - Program > Visual Arts > Media Arts

I thought this would be better than filling up your email.

Please feel free to comment on this post by adding other great website references.

K

Hello and welcome to my weblog for this Institute

This is an experiment for me. I am trying to use this as a way to give you advance and ongoing information about this course.
I will post the daily agenda of activities here as well as references and links.

In each of the posts, there will be a button that will allow you to comment on or add information to the post or topic posted. Please feel free to enrich this site with your own information and references.

In teaching Visual and Media arts, especially content related to the visual/digital realm, I feel I am more the facillitator and guide and less the sage on the stage - so please add to, correct or challenge what we learn and discuss - it just makes the whole experience richer.

What to bring to the course:

Active TEL acct and your password!

All of the following items are optional - just might be useful or you might have a chance to learn more about them:
Digital camera if you have one
Laptop computer if you have one -please let me know what kind and I will bring needed software
IF you have a memory stick – please feel free to bring one for data storage.

See you next Tuesday

Kathy