A Media Arts Student's blog

We had a shoot last week for our next video project. The class was divided into 2 and members were given a role. In our group, Zander was our director, I was the assistant director, Jessica and Sebastian were the production assistants.  The director's job was to tell the actors what our group wants them to do, my job was to make sure we were on time while assisting the director and the production assistants. Jessica and Sebastian mostly helped with the lights and moving things around, making sure nothing's in the way of the cinematographer, which was Carl.  We didn't have any props and our storyboard relied on gestures and the facial features of each actor. This experience definitely made me think I am not one for the camera at all and I would rather be behind the scenes making sure everything goes well. 

MEDIA ARTS 202 is a survey of fundamental practices, practitioners, movements, and current technologies central to the production of time-based art. Students will engage in and create a variety of time-based art forms including video (camera, production, and postproduction), audio (recording, mixing, production), and motion graphics (production) and be exposed to artists and significant works in each genre. -MADT202 syllabus This first project made me terrified. I honestly had no idea there was going to be animation in this class. It was intimidating but I had a lot of fun creating this short animation. For the first week, we introduced ourselves then talked about our the project. We also started cutting magazines for the materials we'll be using for the animation. I had more material but I had a story in mind so I just used these. It starts off with a "commercial" about people and littering. I was experimenting with the fading out transitions and the the...